Raw LLM Responses

College dropout here and absolute vibe coder and I wanted to tell my story here (although really shortened down) because its relevant to the topic of the video and it might help some people. I started college after graduating HS in 2021 and majored in CS, since the day I started I basically fell into a deep despair of depression because just looking at the curriculum over what was going to be expected in the next 4 years of my life was of zero practicality in addition to the fact that while my major was CS the degree plan required for the first two years all these additional gen ed courses that had zero relevance. I also had a bunch of personal mental health things going on contributing to the mdd but I wont get into that. The university I went to structured its actual programming classes in a super fucked up way, the first two semesters you had a programming fundamentals class (1 and 2) where the language used was c++. I personally really liked the class and professor I had for 1 as it was all fundamentals based learning and you were actually programming a lot of the time. However, as soon as the 3rd semester starts for whatever reason the curriculum shifts to us having to use java for our courses and I have no idea at all what the topics we are learning and the evolution roadmap of foundational skills and topics just goes out the door. Especially when majority of my time studying was allocated to my non major specific courses like certain math classes and science courses that didn't have any relevance to what I was interested in learning which very much so screwed me up foundationally in any skill regarding programming. Fast forward this pattern to other semesters I start having to take the data structures and algorithm courses and naturally I barely pass with like a C- which is miracle I even made that happen. Eventually, after this semester, was my last semester where my courses to take naturally started to be more relevant to actual programming and "cs" again but at that point it was all advanced courses which I had no chance in succeeding in because my foundational skills were all out the door. I was without direction for a longtime while being in a partial hospitalization program dealing with at home struggles and the fact that I dedicated almost 4 years to studying a major that I knew from the start wasn't ever going to teach me anything practical application focused which was all I wanted to do. By some miracle, the current job I had been working in was as a warehouse worker for a startup FFL company my friends started, I had already been here for years and beginning of this year we had a company restructure and change of ceo. We had a meeting one day with upper management and the floor opened up with discussion on the various issues we were having across different departments which luckily since I had the opportunity to work across them and having a slightly technical background because of my time in school I gave some solutions that regarded the frontend of our sites that would help solve the customer service flooding issues we were having. The specific issue we were having was that the service we had been using for sorting and dealing with customer support tickets didn't have an auto filtering functionality. Combine this with the fact that our sites themselves didn't have a structure page for sending emails, we just had our email laid out on the page for people to send messages however they wanted. My proposed solution was to have the developer just remove that email link on our page and replace it with a "contact us" redirect link with a basic email form with selectable subjects that way our CS teams tickets could be auto filtered and they could more easily prioritize actual important tickets such as order issues and payment issues. Apparently this made a good impression even though I don't think I did anything remarkably being impressionable, since right after that day I got moved to being a "developer" all of a sudden where my project was to make a data normalization tool from scratch, backend + frontend all the stuff. Needless to say, I had absolutely 0 fucking idea what I was going to do and still to this day I really don't know what I'm doing but holy shit have I learned so much. 6 months later though I manage to get this into production and its also integrated with our other main internal app that another developer created (much more complex system than mine) and things are all working well and bit by bit everyday I'm getting those foundational skills developed again. Now how does this relate to what I mentioned at the beginning of this comment? My overarching point to any1 else in the guy in the videos situation and my own is that it isn't too late to give up and part of the reason why college is preparing you for failure is that you need to actually work on something practical because with how academia is structured its all rote memorization essentially and almost nothing you learn will stick with you. For me, although my "coding fluency" skills are garbage I found that design is most likely where my strength lies and using ai to generate code allows me to do that and maybe thats where you might be better suited if the ML Deep learning stuff clearly isn't working out off the bat. However, as someone who uses a lot of ai to write code, the biggest disservice to yourself would be to not *question* the code and all the small things it generated. I can't tell you the amount of times where I've asked super basic questions during the start of my project at work where the first time I saw a tuple I immediately started searching and researching about it to understand how it was being used and the practical implications of using it. USE those moments to develop those foundational missing skills. Finally, beyond just learning programming fundamentals theres a whole larger world of different jobs and skillsets that are related to computer science that you can still be a part of even if your current foundational programming skills are lacking, so yeah, ML and Deep Learning aren't going to work out for you right now but maybe theres something else out there that suits you better. You can always get into that stuff later on overtime as well, don't be in such a rush to go from 0 to 100 every1's a junior at some point just because you aren't ready now doesn't mean you can't be ready in the future. Take care broski O7 EDIT: Also just wanted to toss out there that I got a get cracked lifetime membership to further resolve those foundational gaps of mine. So thanks to pirate software for being an absolute buffoon and hooking us up with that discount code at the time :D