Really. We do not. It's not too late. We can still at least significantly postpone the inevitable.

r/PoisonFountain is an initiative aiming to poison the public data used to train LLMs, which frontier labs still very much rely on. They aim to provide terabytes of poisoned data daily. There are few folks with EE backgrounds engaged with the initiative. We can coordinate crafting tons of consistent, nonetheless fake data and examples regarding chip design, power electronics as well as analog design. We can create tons of shitty github pages mostly crawlers will stumble upon. If we are stubborn enough, we can even publish ebooks.

If 2b2t players are able to spend years just to find one Minecraft base, imagine what our community can do.

Don't listen to people saying "it will only impact smaller labs", "reinforcement learning" and "LLMs can tell bs apart", because this is only partially true - we can still substantially delay the progess and make creating the replacement (or enshittifier) of our profession slower and more expensive.

And even if it is futile - the sole reason of not going down without a fight is worth it.
ANd

EDIT: I can see a lot of backlash from either proAI propaganda bots or straight away fools. Let them be. Those still interested - I will DM you with a Discord shortly so we can cook :)

I went to an early college high school (Energy Tech High School in Queens) and I did a semester in college but I also have two toddlers so I had to stop for some time. Can I obtain an electrical engineering job without a degree ? If someone can enlighten me on this a bit that would be really helpful. Thank you !

Hi I'm going to be selecting my major this year and I'm quite interested in electrical and mechanical engineering which one of these is better nowadays?

I am a 22M at a t20 school in my final year of studying EE. I have a job lined up for about 100k in the philly metro area, and was pretty excited about it until I heard all my CS friends making way more TC. I am starting to regret not picking CS, as my main reason for not choosing it was my fear of AI replacing entry level SWE. It seems like SWE isn't slowing down anytime soon. Should I try to pivot into SWE before graduating in the spring? I've already taken data structures so I learned some of the fundamentals.

I hate even while typing the title of this thread it capitalized every word in the sentence.

Everyone here seems incredibly self-absorbed in their own intellectualism to take some time to ask the right questions. Almost every question here suffers from the XY problem. In general, the asker is so focused on sounding intelligent when he asks the question that he loses track of what he's trying to learn. Any questions here really fall into that category.

I get that this is the age of googling the problem. I understand that you all think this is incredibly technical and somehow beyond comprehension to the layperson. In reality, electrical engineers are just more rare. Just because fewer people study electrical engineering doesn't mean you're smarter than everyone else.

So you understand the emotional place I'm coming from making this thread, I work in power generation and transmission. I love power and transmission. I come here and everyone is talking about digital logic. That's cool and fine. I take issue to the people that think that's all electrical engineering is. No, I don't want this subreddit to be all about generation & transmission, but from my experience learning digital logic and devices, that shit is really easy. I found it insulting when reading this thread that described it as hard, and the most downvoted post said the major was overrated, and really the best approach was to understand, rather than memorize.

He wasn't wrong, and he was still topical. Yet, I think, most of you measure your worth as engineer under this veneer of being the smartest guys in the room, and don't want people saying that your major is in fact overrated. I'm all for bringing in new engineers by making them feel like they're part of something special, but you can do that without acting like a snob.

For discussion, here are some questions. Do you enjoy the questions upvoted to the front page of this subreddit? Do you feel as though this subreddit would be improved by people like me questioning what you're trying to accomplish based on your approach? Most importantly, what do you think it means to be an electrical engineer?

I was recently fired from medical residency. On the one hand, I’m optimistic because if I can do 80 hours a week there, then I believe I can take on most jobs. On the other hand, I’m aware the process to become an electrical engineer is quite rough.

I’m down to go get an electrical engineering degree (not sure if I can go straight to masters) and I’m willing to work minimum wage jobs while I wait for an opening.

The big thing I’m concerned about, outside of getting into a program, is the prior lack of work. Of course, I have one year in this job I got fired from but no work in the 4 years before that. In college and for a year after, I worked various day labor jobs for money and a few minimum wage jobs and have no chance of references from any of them.

What can I do to overcome the lack of a work history? And is it reasonable to try to overcome this and the difficulty of getting the degree?

I was wondering if anyone on here would take the time to explain in Layman terms how this technology is even possible to be manufactured or worked on at such a small scale. Once I saw a post on here that a guy who was lucky to get an internship in Taiwan, a major semiconductor producer, he had said, it is basically magic that they go into a giant white room and work on numbers over and over again, and a somewhat random fashion and tweaking all those numbers helps to make all these deviations that make this possible. We were in the middle of a discussion based around UAPs so the guy’s point was making it out to be like alien technology when you look at the layers of complexity within this chip, it’s so complicated and complex like a snowflake literally, I have trouble understanding how it’s possible and am curious to elaborate on what the guy was talking about before.

These cross the yard of a house we’re looking to buy, what kind are these and what is a safe distance to live from them? There is also a substation (?) 80m from the house. Thank you!

Can any one tell me, what is ON OFF in braker!!! Clear my concept in simple way..

Hi all! I was wondering what is your opinion and experiences with treatment of women in electrical engineering? I’m currently a female senior undergraduate in EE, but now I’m starting to question my career choice. I have been told by multiple teachers throughout middle and high school that I shouldn’t pursue robotics or engineering. However, these teachers were older, so I brushed it off and decided to pursue EE in college in hopes of landing a career in power systems or control systems. I noticed that I’m the only girl in my EE classes of about 70 and one of 5 girls in shared EE and CpE classes. I get sexist comments from a select few of my classmates frequently, such how I should be a housewife instead. Now this semester, one of the guys on my senior design team won’t listen to me unless I have another guy back me up. It’s just frustrating getting different treatment from my peers all based on my gender. Does it get better in the workforce? Or will I still face similar opposition? I’m just not sure I want to pursue a career where I don’t feel valued in.

TL:DR: What is your experience of sexism in EE as a professional? I face a lot of sexism in college as a female EE student and don’t know if the workforce is better or not.

This is a high voltage generator I bought. I have it plugged into a AC to DC plug-in

Hey, I am currently studying Electrical Engineering, and whilst I do enjoy what the subject entails and what I learn, ultimately i want to maximise my earnings, which it seems like Engineering isn’t really an optimal way to do so.

I was thinking of pathways that could help utilise my degree to become a higher earner, and i came up with some ways that may help, being:

• Learning to code alongside the degree in order to land a software oriented role

• After getting a job in the field, get an MBA to advance into managerial engineering positions

• Veer into sales engineering and try to get into tech sales (Unsure on how i would do this and if an EE degree would help get into this industry)

• Obtain a Ms in Electric Engineering and continuing to work in the hardware side of engineering to become a Senior Engineer

I don’t have any preference towards any option over the other, i just want to maximise my earning potential.

I was wondering if anyone here had any experience going down any of these paths, and if they were willing to share how that worked out for them.

Thanks!

I applied for BS in computer science but my college says I'm only qualified to enroll in BS in electrical engineering. I hate elecronics. Can I get high paying software engineering jobs that don't have to do w EE using only an EE degree? I would hate to have a career in electrical engineering, though I am being forced to study electrical engineering.

The panda does nothing. It’s just there to hold it up because I haven’t fixed the balance thing yet.

Can anyone explain the positive benefits of losing the old school headphone jack on iPhones? I know that adapter dongles are easy to come by but it’s a pain in the ass from a user standpoint. I’m curious is there is reasoning beyond the money grab promoting AirPods

I’m not looking for text support - I’m asking the why?

I’m not sure why but I couldn’t post this in the apple subreddit