Which font are you using in the terminal?

A genuine Christmas shoutout on a tech video? The vibe shift really is real.

i love these new types of videos. I mean i love all your content lol

There was this time in my carrier right after I switched to ml after 2 years in mobile dev and was afraid that I wasted a lot of time by not being consistent in my domain. Then 2 years after that I switched my role and stack yet again and now after 3 years after that I will soon do another switch. For years I thought that something is wrong with my approach, that I have to settle and stop thrashing around. But increasingly I started to see that all those detours along the way actually often enabled a lot of new opportunities later down the road. Now I see that my experience is actually useful in many contexts and unlocks a lot of various roads ahead. This experience couldn't have been acquired by limiting my curiosity to one domain only. In the past few months I embraced my curiosity and now I feel as though this made me actually enjoy the field a lot more. I dunno how the world will turn out in the next decade but sitting in one place is definitely not a good way to go about it. Thanks for this video, it feels good to hear about so many similar points in your career.

Treesitter

I have found ChatGPT very interesting when I write a large amount of text (my last prompt was 500 words written over 10-15 minutes not really structured well). It is apparently very good at extracting meaning even if I use a sort of mental shorthand even just writing sequences of associations and even changing perspective, being sarcastic, etc., what I expect to be a very confused mess of thoughts somehow it extracts some meaning. I am trying to learn physics and it restructures it and gives sources (it told me my ideas are similar to a 1920 book I've been reading which I didn't tell it about :) )

Very thoughtful

Genuinely thought this was going to start with "Have you ever ... ever had a dream ... that ... a dream ... that ... you could ... that you could ...could you ... dream ... that you could do anything?"

the brackets for functions are automatically created how do i stop that behavior?

This might have just been an epic reply to the message I sent you, If it reached you. Thank you for this man.

12:38 , the realest thing , i only started programming when chatGPT released because i wouldn't have to resort to talking to another human or even worst .... stack overflow, i just kept using it like a teacher and discovered things. now i mostly write GDscript (cause i like it) and chatGPT blows when it comes to doing complicated things in Godot so im forced to not copy code or use copilot because it just makes terrible code.

It's a huge problem IMO. Getting LLMs to give me correct Godot 4 C# code is so much harder than getting them to give me correct Unity C# code that having to debug the Godot solution mostly by hand legitimately multiplies the workload by 10 for anything involving a system I didn't write. Great if you're paid by the hour to help the LLM do it right. Not if you're an indie game dev who wants to use Godot for something.

Interview with senior Occaml developer.

I fucked up, I am a 2024 graduate, got a job but left it (mostly because of health reasons) I feel so guilty about it

Please make this a series, just sit on a tree, and talk about life

LLMs feel more like a rug pull now. It’s pretty much useless for programming. The studies on leaning with LLM are very conclusive. Using LLMs harm critical thinking and learning.

Have you ever had a dream?! 😅

There tree is the centerpiece and I consider it a necessity to have in these types of videos going forward.

The last time I was impressed and had fun with an editor was with Atom. Then to save time I went with the crowd and switched to VSCode. And the fun was over. Now I want to try nvim because of your channel TJ. Well done. But I have scars. Back when I was doing all Java (other scars) I used an editor called "jEdit". It has embedded "bsh" for macros written in actual Java. I went nuts customizing that env, fine tuning and enhancing the tiniest little details for my own tastes. Then when I didn't want/need a full JRE to run an editor, I lost those years of tweaks. Sigh. I don't like switching tools anyway, and this type of customizing makes switching costs WAY too painful. But VSCode makes me sad. I had to learn basic vi/vim anyway when I started managing Linux servers. And my daily driver has been Linux for like 20 years. I'm hoping that nvim will be the last time I switch dev envs. I will learn Lua (to me it looks like BASIC, as in 1983 Commodore64). And I will pray that there are easy to find plugins that match my most core ones from Atom/VSCode. Cheers.

Didn't work for me at all. Until I realized I created the window with noautocmd. /facepalm Great video. Thanks

TreeJ DeVries

This is a very funny coincidental video to stumble upon, I just recently got laid off in a job and have been reflecting a lot on the journey that got me there. I think this video perfectly summarizes my exact experience, I ended up stumbling into a full CAREER that I absolutely adored based on curiosity. Prior to the job I had 0 clue what the hell I was doing after having realized the field I studied and was in was no longer for me. I ended up bouncing around for a while, but eventually got a random job at an animation studio doing just basic admin work. But due to curiosity and a weird realization that the department I helped administrate was a weird amalgamation of my interests of gaming, 3D and programming I ended up asking if I could somehow get a more technical role. If I hadn't been curious I never would've bothered to ask, and all these one off ADHD rabbit hole hobbies that I was curious about at one period never would've came together. It's very similar to the story about your sister, where some random event pans out in a way you never could've anticipated. However, I think the big caveat in all this is, be curious WITHOUT expectation. For example, lets say you want to work as a game developer. If there are local studios near you, ask if you can meet some of the developers or check out the studio, you'd be very very surprised at how that might pan out, and many people are way nicer and more helpful than you could imagine. If local is not an option, reaching out to developers and asking to hear about their story and journey is another great tool to meeting more people and "networking" without feeling slimy. The only thing is that you also need to show genuine curiosity in these people, if you're just going through the motions people can tell. I think the 1950's method nowadays would go crazy because I feel like if you can show a certain level of drive, ambition and courage, some companies may be willing to take a chance on you even if you have less experience or schooling than someone else. Great video TJ, these ideas have been floating around in my mind for a while but I've never been able to piece them together, it was nice to hear someone else elaborating on them.

I'm glad you actually put that at the end <3

your positivity is infectious

oh sad, i thought this was a new video lol. i missed out

Great video. I like these. You don't sound like a sarcastic superiority-complex-ridden tech bro here

time to apply the reverse fishing maneuver: instead of asking llms for some fried fish, ask them for tips on catching and recipes. Give a fish/teach how to fish in reverse iykwim

Bro. You can't forget the taste of the previous video ha?

good one. I really like it. Be curious, get good at what you find interesting and in the end it'll work out for you.

Absolutely goated content TJ. Really happy that you provide this sir. 🎉

Another banger. Keep em coming.

this treesitter update is going great

yes human factor / soft skills is very important, still I don't fully understand my coworkers, but to find a common vision would be awesome, explaining, checking that everything is understood and commonly agreed, understanding which mechanics are holding people back, learning to not be too emotional, my LLM could be my confident, I would teach it to help me learn human interactions, one small team can be so powerful, this is my experience / lesson from you, because like you said the world is big, everyone is unique, thanks TJ for sharing like that :)

I like 2025 Teej

I love you brother

you are very smart, thanks for the words

treesh'ter?

0:35 the dog had enough

Thanks for your insight as always- great video! <3

I'm really enjoying these videos where you're simply giving us more of what you're thinking. Thanks for sharing TJ!

hello TJ from all of this tech internet people i feel the most "human like relatable energy" i feel genuine excitement. thanks for being like this, its pleasant to relate to someone, someone that is further in life

Teej, remaking that treesitter thumbnail from years ago.

A tree gets sat on and you think that of me? No. I am the one who sits.

please keep making these :)

You’re truly making a difference!

Pls do 1 hour walking on the snow asmr with the doggo

I can’t wait for the next video when he’s clinging to the top branches or has just made a treehouse as his new “studio” Slowly merging primitive technology channel with neovim

just stopping by to criticize the uncapitalized title