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21 | cs @ ubc journal of thoughts.

[tanishqcs]

learning how to be happy

Monetization and passion does not have to go hand in hand. It's okay if you want to do what you love, that's a great privilege, and by all means you SHOULD strive for a life like that. But don't let that take away from the fact that there are hobbies you can do to better your quality of life, without a monetary purpose.

Social media fosters the notion that you will live a regretful life if you don't spend all your time seeking how to monetize what you love. What you'll find in reality as you emotionally mature is that financial success, whether you love your job or not, provides you the sense of accomplishment to spend time doing side hobbies, without the feeling of guilt while doing it.

Emotional Intelligence is a result of the attitude, actions, and ambitions of those around you. Find people that make you happy, hobbies that you enjoy, and be able to filter out nonsense like blackpill social media telling you that you are a failure.

But don't be complacent.

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imposter syndrome

it is easier than ever to feel behind in life. societal values have shifted into less companionship and more competition.

I see this in my personal life, stressing so much about career. Every now and then i will scroll and see a high school dropout accomplishing more than I have and let that define the worth of my accomplishments.

I think partly this comes from a lack of connections, especially related to the fields/aspects of your life you feel like an imposter in. people are afraid to talk to others, but feel insecurity in being outcasts, and I think that is a problem that cannot be solved.

it's never a possibility to "make it" with this mindset. there is never a level of "content", and I think that's where the main issue lies. eventually you face the consequences of burnout and disappointment, and how you carry that forward determines maturity, growth and emotional intelligence

[tanishqcs]

uni

challenge yourself.

I wish I did another major alongside cs.

cs+physics? cs+math? sometimes i think...

i'm doing backend/infra while there are people out there sending data centers to space to power ai / ml contributions.

[tanishqcs]

career

really the only thing that matters for one's career and longevity is the societal contribution they are making, or at least think they are making.

no one will do meaningless work for 30 years starting 2020 onwards without getting early onset dementia.

strive to work on ai / ml in cs, or the latest advancements in your industry. do it your whole life.

people do not regret careers with high societal contribution, or careers they intrinsically enjoy.

coming from a 21 y/o cs student lol

[tanishqcs]

crudbob

so many cool and crazy languages/frameworks out there and people still making crudbob with PHP, C#/.NET, Node.js and non-SQL databases lol

[tanishqcs]

learning comprehension

in other degrees, as advancements are made, the basics are still needed to be understood to comprehend the advanced topics.

however, in cs, people will disregard performance systems, networks, data structures, and any low level languages because libraries and programs will simply take care of it fore them.

as advacements are made, people will become incapable of creating low-level systems because they are simply too lazy to learn because "this just does it for me".

learning competency in cs will decline for most people overtime. that is causing a "saturated market" of people that cannot learn.

I don't know jack shit about low level computing, but I can at least code a network server, understand basic database implementation, and understand the basics of system-level memory optimization / performance.

[tanishqcs]

hackathon

hackathons are overrated. they bring together talent at top schools but disregard developers / students that cannot afford to fly out just for a hackathon. though those developers will end up successful anyways.

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j*b

cs degrees are not bad. developers that use ai throughout school for DEVELOPMENT create poor learning habits for themselves. use ai to understand topics, and apply them yourself to assignments / projects.

yes. the cs job market is cooked. but its funny when people that can't pass technicals or do the most basis system design complain about it. if you can't get over the bare minimum WITHOUT the rng, how can you expect to get lucky lol.

[tanishqcs]

cs

cs is not cooked. just need to do the hard stuff lol.

ai/ml, systems/infra, performance computing, actuarial, applied cs.

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gemini 3.0

claude for coding. gemini for everything else.

unless you are a cracked developer, stop using agentic ai ide's like cursor. using web-based ai to do code snippets still requires a minimum level of competency to make complete systems.

as ai agentic tools improve, developers will become dumber & far less innovative.

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ai 2025-02-14

if ai fails because it is non profitable, big tech will use it internally, own more market share in every industry by gatekeeping ai advancements, and literally take over. life for humans will improve, and the rich tech giants will become insanely rich.

if ai doesn't fail, then every industry will be reliant on big tech, up until big tech takes over every industry.

open-source ai doesn't work once models are to expensive to compute. in either scenario, either one company takes over, or all the companies win a little bit.

still not investing in this bubble.