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old, but still funny. i think…
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Imagine seeing your face in this picture.
Can Hackerman tell me my IP please? I can never remember where that’s hidden. Thanks!
127.0.0.1
I worked directly with the last one on the list. I got his laptop approved to install Microsoft Access, by submitting a formal request to IT security.
I will share my first honest draft “justification” here:
“This man can achieve miracles with nothing more than Excel and VBA. His true skills unleashed are exactly what all of our draconian IT policies are afraid of. I don’t know what will happen, to any of us - after you approve this request. But i believe that standing in the way of his destiny is foolish futility, and I want him to remember me fondly when his full powers emerge.”
I replaced it with meaningless business speak bullshit, and cited a couple of uninterpretable but urgent business office priorities before I submitted the form.
There’s a such thing as too much honestly.
Missing the LLM developer with billions of tokens to burn.
- “Claude, please solve this puzzle so my Grandma can get her insulin”
- if the LLM succeeds, solves in less than 10 seconds.
- if it fails, star remains forever unsolved - “Impossible with current LLM, will try again with ChatGPT 8.0”
I’m fairly confident this image is from before the rise of LLMs (or at least - from before they could solve AoC)
- Spends the first 90% of the competition developing specialized subagents and custom MCP servers to allocate the problems and most relevant information efficiently into the LLM’s contexts.
- All of his agents easily escape their own sandboxes and one accidentally configures itself into “delete-only mode”.
- “Codex, how the fuck do you not have access to your own documentation?”
- Places 29th globally after one of his subsubagents finds a way to reconstruct the full solution set from filesystem metadata in the online judge VMs.
Missing the LLM developer with billions of tokens to burn.
developer
developer
are they tho?
script-kiddie 2.0?
Close. A script is readable and editable code. The LLM slop is “deep” so it’s opaque and you can’t really change the system prompt (you can jailbreak it).
Script-kiddie is a derogatory term for a computer user who can’t read or edit the code. Scripts might be useful to us, but they may as well be opaque to a script-kiddie.
Would you really claim that a script-kiddie won’t alter a number or a string in some script?
For my definition of script-kiddie, its not that they won’t change something, they by definition cannot because they dont understand it.
We may have different definitions here, but that is the one I am familiar with.
I’d say a script-kiddie can modify a script, but only if there’s some resource that says ‘change this part to do x’. They don’t understand why that change does what it does, though, or how to troubleshoot if it doesn’t actually do the thing.
Signed: config file kiddie - I just do what youtube or forum denizens tell me to do until it works. Imagine there’s script-kiddies out there that do something similar.
- Running 7 different LLM agents simultaneously, not for proof of correctness, just for speed and resource burn
Exactly, we need a modern version of this meme.
Where’s the thigh highs?
They all have thigh highs, you just don’t see it in the pictures.
This feels a bit too real…
Is… Tharg unusual? Like, the rest are exaggerated for humor, but I’ve met more than one Tharg. Hell, at one point if I switched majors I’d be Tharg.
I’m the old bald guy. My self-imposed restriction is not taking ADHD meds.
not taking adhd meds
how do you do it?
caffeine works wonders
The coding? In little bite-sized pieces. I follow the Unix philosophy of “make each program do one thing well”. It’s much less daunting to build it one piece at a time.
I’m fortunate to have an employer who understands that the architectural work is done while I appear to be walking around doing nothing.
Oh I remember years ago my project manager worried I was not at my desk typing and I had to explain to him that my brain was constantly thinking about the code. Even while on breaks, even at night, 24/7 essentially. It took time to convince him but thankfully my senior knew I wasnt bullshit ting because he was seeing my code. I did burn out after two years, obviously.
I wish more people understood that neurodivergent people work differently, and if you let them they can become “superstars”
Finally, someone who understands.
Been there, done that, and colleagues usually complain in the PRs that those one liners don’t need to be separate functions and are perfectly fine when used inline.
yall get the chance to take adhd meds? what a paradise
Hey, they make us function a bit more like an allistic person would expect anybody to function
I know, I probably have ADHD, just that I don’t have access to the meds
There is also a brand new “kid raised by their parents solely with the goal of working at google one day.”
They have memorized like 9000 problems for interviews and this was one of them.
for the folks that have tried competitive programming, this is way too relatable
This is not true. Most of the competition are clueless nepo babies who win by default.
The rest are people who have been programming embedded systems since they were 3 months old.
I believe the “competition” in the original context is Advent of Code, not the job market. As you can see most of those people already have good jobs, why would they need to compete with the likes of you?
You may be right. That does seem to make more sense.
since they were 3 months old.
Lmao. Imagine getting such a late start on embedded systems.
I’m not into competitive programming but it’s the same in FOSS communities too.
Tharg here. It’s a compiler, not a transpiler.
And as a kernel engineer I really don’t do any golfing.
Is the last image/name straight up from “Office Space” ?
Samir Notgonnaworkhereanymore
I think the name is a bit wrong. Also I didn’t think the character was Indian.
Unrelated, but if the guy is working IT support, is he really that great of a coder? Seems like if you were that good, you would have a different job.
The number of people who think IT and CS are interchangeable is too damn high.
Since getting married to a programmer I’ve learned that CS is not the same as IT. I’m still the family IT person, now I just sleep with a walking talking command line cheat sheet. She could write a program for anything but a KVM is black magic to her.
Yeah it bugs me too. The line gets even blurrier now that one of the latest models is to integrate devops with the dev team. And put developers on call to handle system generated alarms. That used to be the job of what we called a sysadmin, but as part of everything being “cloud” now, they figured they could save some money and make developers do IT work as well, call it devops, and then squeeze out a bunch of related IT roles.
In this economy?! Shit, I’d take an IT job at this point. I swear I’m on a blacklist for responding to job applications.
Yes
I wish I still had time for advent of code…
It was at least shorter this year
It was 12 days and the first time I’ve ever finished it.
Shit, if I had known that I might have actually done it this year
I’m proud I made it to day 8 I think
