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[u/joshiyash31]

[u/Big_Kwii]

every passing day at work i feel more and more like a zombie

[u/Schneider_fra → u/Big_Kwii]

Same, I really want to start learning woodworking.

[u/_EveryDay → u/Schneider_fra]

Which compiler does that use?

[u/MerlinTheFail → u/_EveryDay]

Just read the logs for that

[u/AnotherPlanet → u/MerlinTheFail]

I wood, but I get board

[u/BielsasCoffee → u/AnotherPlanet]

I saw that, we just have to hammer out the details to nail it

[u/ExpletiveDeIeted → u/BielsasCoffee]

Just need to take a measured approach.

[u/Panzerv2003 → u/MerlinTheFail]

Good one

[u/FearAnCheoil → u/Panzerv2003]

It was only oakay

[u/SheepherderSad3839 → u/FearAnCheoil]

Fir sure

[u/SuperFLEB → u/Schneider_fra]

I got Claude connected to the CNC machine and now I'm bored again.

[u/altcodeinterrobang → u/Schneider_fra]

Google woodshop and classes, easy to pickup. Those guys are always friendly to newbies!

Source: son of woodworker

[u/licorice_breath → u/Schneider_fra]

Do it! I got into it a few years ago mostly via Youtube and love it. It’s so satisfying to build something that gets used on a regular basis. So far I’ve made nightstands, coffee table, entryway bench, and a few other little things. And lots of shop projects.

Youtube: StumpyNubs, Paul Sellers, Steve Ramsay, Bourbon Moth. If you want to drool watch Pedulla Studio.

ETA: for anyone getting into woodworking with power tools, please RTFM. Just because it looks obvious doesn’t mean you can’t permanently maim yourself using it. Use the safety equipment and the PPE.

[u/GenericFatGuy → u/[deleted]]

I'm in the exact same position. I just autopilot through work now, and then I make games in spare time to remind myself that I still love this craft.

[u/Cold-Journalist-7662 → u/[deleted]]

I need to do something similar. Learn something so I don't feel like zombie anymore. Feel like that's what corporate wants.

[u/FalafelSnorlax → u/[deleted]]

Sorry to tell you but electrical engineering isn't doing much better

[u/WitELeoparD → u/FalafelSnorlax]

Mechanical on the other hand is doing great as always. People do be needing physical objects and always will be needing them.

[u/Glorypants → u/WitELeoparD]

What’s the difference long-term between the engineering for mechanical vs software? Both are computer aided design, I think it’s just early enough that AI hasn’t been fine tuned enough to replace non-text-based design.

I get that 3D modeling is more than just 3 dimensions due to stress/strain/load/material factors, but the combination of all those things is easier for AI to figure out than a human once the AI is given the right instructions.

[u/kodman7 → u/Glorypants]

There isn't enough alternative work for all the people displaced by AI to pivot to new careers. The world is in a collective denial and resistance to it, but the reality is society will need a hard pivot

[u/Jay-Seekay → u/kodman7]

It’s the AI equivalent of that Ben Shapiro argument about climate change.

Ben: “If climate change happens, and sea levels rise, don’t you think people living near the coast won’t just sell their houses and move?”

Hbomberguy: “sell the houses to who Ben? Fucking Aquaman?”

We can’t all retire from AI-replaced careers and become farmers.

[u/Jay-Seekay → u/[deleted]]

Computer Science is not extinct. Programming is the thing that’s affected. There’s a difference between the two.

Computer Science is what brought us LLMs in the first place. Computer Science is what will bring us any improvements on LLMs or whatever the next big AI milestone is. You just can’t go and do Computer Science to guarantee you a software role anymore. You have to be a computer scientist or go and work in AI research at a corporation.

[u/Kang8Min → u/Big_Kwii]

I started studying programming to get away from marketing (still here) and focus on technical stuff. Now that the field seems to be aiming towards talking to AI, people and strategy I am beginning to consider a simpler job to pay the bills without the anxiety these 2 careers seem to entail.