Working hard hardly working

30 mins since daily q is open. If you see 19% - you can tell it is going to fuck you up..

Daily 438th day streak

Typical bullshit question. Not hard. No pattern, just some greedy rules you need to apply after thinking about bunch of edge cases for.
I do NOT recommend

https://leetcode.com/problems/minimum-operations-to-sort-a-string/description/?envType=daily-question&envId=2026-10-21

#daily #medium #nopattern

Soon: new video folks. I need couple of days to edit

Algo probably does not work, but if you know one - pls do let me know.

I might be wrong, but was it single AZ outage that cause half of EU Revolut not working??

Thats consistency >> availability I guess😆

But sounds not like it should be. I mean, I can understand (hardly theoretically) regional outage of GCP can cause that, but not single AZ outage.

I really want to read postmortem if they publish one.

Might be skill issue, but still. Grok 4.7 + cursor, maybe some anomaly cause it was never so dumb.

Asked it: how do I validate PR with feature X (and pr link).

Grok responds: this pr does not include feature X.

I pointed to exact diff, and it told me: “yeah, this is the right feature, but pr is not merge”

Me seeing “Merged” purple button in github🗿🗿🗿


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I asked why it hallucinated: turns out it was dumb enough to not checkout latest main, and fetching origin(still answering against local changes), and it was completely ignoring the link to pr that I pasted 3 times (however it has access to it).

#aifailed #ai

Then it complaint it does not have gh command line auth, actually it had, as I run in cmd and confirmed there is access.

Model said: “yeah, in my sandbox it was not available, now it is”

But grok never pushed back, never mentioned that it cannot read pr, that it does not have gh, and never tried to update creds for sandbox.

Overall grok was eprforming very nice except today. Maybe cursor bullshited and it was not grok 4.7 under the hood.

The purpose for these posts is to collect all the cases when ai failed and average person would probably get stuck. (Aka I will not be replaced copium)

I got annoyed that I dont have cases for that when people are asking: “why you think ai can’t replace or cant do X”

Daily 439th day streak

bullshit problem again, no pattern, but not really hard.

https://leetcode.com/problems/minimum-operations-to-sort-a-permutation/description/?envType=daily-question&envId=2026-10-22

#daily #medium #nopattern

Daily 440th day streak

Again bullshit problem. Not really hard

https://leetcode.com/problems/maximum-k-to-sort-a-permutation/?envType=daily-question&envId=2026-10-23

#daily #medium #nopattern

This week leetcode is so shit omg...
this is what I was telling you. If you really want to prepare - NEVER EVEN TOUCH DAILY challenge. Unless you see "good problem, has nice pattern" in my daily post.

Anyone in this chat had AI assisted interview recently, aka "this is the project, you need to fix/improve X Y Z, you can use agents/ai, go!"?

I would go to DM if you are not comfortable sharing here. I don't really care about company name. Just bigtech or non bigtech label is enough for me.

Today had experience with emergency department in Ireland. Everything good, no worries. But will tell you about the experience in a bit

Daily 441st day streak

Good problem, feels very applicable in real world, and in real programming scenario.
No leetcode pattern though but pretty straight forward. I would recommend to remind yourself how to code.

https://leetcode.com/problems/count-days-spent-together/description/?envType=daily-question&envId=2026-10-24

#daily #easy #nopattern #recommend

So during yesterday's sparring I did very bad roll left under the hand of the guy, stand up too fast and my head got blocked by his chest/back while still standing up. I heard crack in the neck and pain there.

In the morning I decided to go to Emergency room, or just emergency to check whether it is alright, as I was afraid it can somehow damage spine brain. I decided to go private one Mater Private Network as I'm covered by insurance.

Their working hours are 8am-7pm. I arrived at 10am, filled the form of what has happened within 20 mins I was charged 250 eur for consultation. They got my card details so that they can charge me for whatever procedure needed + stay over night and I got to the room where nurse asked some basic questions of what has happened.

11:00 nurse has left for maybe 40 mins, and another doctor/nurse arrived, did a basic test for neurological issues (I didn't have any thanks to God), and left again with: "I will need to ask supervisor whether you need CT or no".

12:19 I was escorted for CT scan of the neck and back to waiting room with other patients.

15:14 got the result of CT scan. Doc told me it is nothing serious, but there was something that needs to be clarified with surgeon.

18:09 - I finally was called by the same doc, he said that surgeon told him I was alright, and no need to do anything. Just check in 2 weeks with that surgeon.

I still was not charged for CT scan and I will reimburse 250, however not whole price will be returned (will keep you updated)

Staff offered sandwiches, there was coffee and tea. Overall very nice and kind doctors, nurses, staff and people. Prob I was the most “slavic anger face” out there (still working on it)

Overall exp is okay except waiting for the doc’s green light. Apparently it is understaffed in private as well. But nothing to complain, they have oncall and I was low-mid prio ofc.

Conclusion:
Be careful with roll left during sparring, especially if you are taller than opponent. Now I need to skip boxing for at least 2 weeks.

Private Emergency room (in Mater Private Network at least) works nicely, they were able to root cause the issue in 8 hours for low/mid prio patient.

Proposed and brought painkillers - but I refused to take.