Working the same, the nature of the work has changed. Less time spent on the minutia of syntax and project scaffolding. More time spent on how the minutia compose into a larger system.
I'm personally tired of getting stuck in config/deployment hell every time I want to deploy a long-lived web service. Sure I eventually learned how to use systemd, but systemd has SO many things baked into that I simply don't need. systemg is a lightweight process supervisor that features everything you'd typically want when running/managing production web services in the wild.
True, but I think the point I'm trying to make is that when it comes to deploying (what are more often than not) web services, getting to the point with systemd where it "just works" requires more pain than I'd like - especially with regard to production deployments (reading logs, checking service status, wondering why my env vars aren't being read, etc).
If at the time when I was cutting my teeth on systemd, I had access to something more lightweight and "do one thing well", I think I would've gotten a lot more sleep :)
I have rarely in my 11+ years of professionally writing software, met someone who could _really_ "write code", but couldn't build software. Anecdotal obviously. But I'd say the opposite tends to be the case IMO - those who tend to really know "the code", also tend to know how to effectively build software (relatively speaking).
It kinda makes sense - "knowing how to code" in modern tech largely means "knowing how to build software" - not write single modules in some language - because those single modules on their own are largely useless outside the context of "software".
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I like minimalistic websites, but I feel like that's too far. No information what so ever about anything at all, just a "Login with Spotify" button. What happens once you're logged in? No one knows.
I suppose there's a lesson in there that they could write an explanation of what happens when you log in on the page but you'd still have no actual knowledge of what happens. No explanation is honest.
Upvote because can someone explain to someone as dense as me, whether or not this is likely to make some likely AI bubble worse? Is this just how industry allocates capital?
Part of what's concerning here is that the deals are conditional. OpenAI must meet XYZ conditions before cash/stock/etc is transferred, and the conditions are pretty hard to meet.
The money between OpenAI, Nvidia, Oracle, AMD is not circulating. There is no cashflow, only future commitments that may (and quite likely will) collapse. Yet the stock market & media react as if it's a sure thing. Even in the criticisms of these deals, the hype is affirmed.
This is the same problem as Enron's accounting, minus the fraud. (No need for fraudulent accounting when people simply don't read the fine print.)
The money is allocated by institutional investors. They buy the stock, the companies trade their more valuable stocks amongst themselves for various deals. If institutional investors stop investing then the flow of deals stops & the bubble pops. There is nowhere else the institutional investors could park their money other than tech so I don't think the bubble is going to pop any time soon. But infinite growth is obviously a logical & physical impossibility so eventually there will be a correction but whoever says they know exactly when that will happen is lying & they'd be better off buying lottery tickets to cash in on their ability to predict the future.
Personally think this makes a tech bubble a contagion for other parts of the financial industry - especially if institutional investors take the "easy" trade that everyone is doing and add leverage to it.
Now once these folks don't get 800B per year in revenue and the money runs out, all of the banks go as well. But don't worry - they'll get bailed out with our money...
Is it worse than the dot-com bubble? I remember everyone and their mom who knew HTML could get hired, and there were way more companies that went IPO during the dot-com bubble, like theglobe.com.
AI is a bubble, but is it worse than the dot-com bubble or the real estate bubble in 2008?
> Is it worse than the dot-com bubble? I remember everyone and their mom who knew HTML could get hired, and there were way more companies that went IPO during the dot-com bubble, like theglobe.com.
IDK, the number of companies and employees might be smaller, but the valuations and comp packages are so much bigger that I suspect there's more money in the bubble this time around, just a bit less spread out.
The dotcom bubble had investor capital going towards hiring tens of thousands of people. The AI bubble has capital going towards buying hardware, signing a handful of researchers on 9-figure deals and settling lawsuits for IP theft.
Brandon. He was a traditionally trained SWE (CS) but didn't have crazy FAANG names on his resume. Very humble, soft spoken guy. Could write code twice as fast as you, that was 2x easier to understand/grok, and would run 5x more effecciently than yours. Knew the stack all the way from the web layer to the CPU cache level. To this day I think about how he was thee definition of a "10x engineer".
I have been in almost exactly same situation with a big tech. It's true that your fate has already been decided and no point fighting an org that doesn't want you, read memo and accept and leave.
And do not waste time to show improvement on PIP, no one's expecting, rather use the time to secure the next job. If it's difficult to find the next job, just do the minimal to share something on the 1on1s.
Be nice to everyone, it's not personal, rather they will appreciate you if you handle this in matured fashion.
At a certain point, huge prompts (which you can readily find available on Github, used by large LLM-based corps) are just....files of code? Why wouldn't I just write the code myself at that point?
Almost makes me think this "AI coding takeover" is strictly pushed by non-technical people.
This was my thinking as well. Iran sending a nuke at anyone effectively is the end of Iran (and many of its people). Something something…mutually assured destruction (e.g., North Korea has nukes, makes threats, doesn’t use them)
Unfortunately MAD in the classic sense doesn't apply here. Yes if Iran launched a nuke at Israel, or vice versa, and the other had nuclear capabilities, they would destroy each other, but the MAD scenario between the USSR and the United States doesn't really play out here.
The biggest global risk in this case would be that tactical nukes would be back on the menu which would immediately change the face of modern warfare.
So the reason to make an exception to the Non-Proliferation Treaty just for the giant tyrannical fundamentalist state is, what, because otherwise they might get insecure and anxious?
Ted Cruz is explicitly advocating that Christians are biblically commanded to defend the modern day state of Israel, and that this alone justifies our attack on Iran.
Ted Cruz can blather whatever he wants (and he also footnoted it to say it was only HIS belief), but only Iran has holy-text justification for the destruction of all Jews, mentioned numerous times in authenticated Hadiths (just search them for "The last hour will not come")
In the past 24 hours alone, all 3 parties in this conflict have attributed their success to God. You genuinely, honestly have to be more specific in your comment because not a single involved participant is a fully secular country.
So, with that being said - which nuclear-obsessive theocracy do you support?
israel's whole existance is based on the idea that they are gods chosen people and god promised them that land, and they must defend it or it dishonors him.
going by project 2025, theres a very significant and influential portion of the american conservative sphere that is pants on head evangelical. and the idea of supporting israel as their christian duty is a huge part of that
lets not pretend this isnt the crusades with nukes. all parties here are operating on barbaric political principles
one of the scariest parts of the current US administration is that there is a fairly strong evangelical Christian belief that a massive (possibly nuclear) war in Israel is a necessary precursor to the 2nd coming.
> but I feel less emotionally invested in the craft of coding.
I don't think caring about the craft of coding and using AI tools are mutually exclusive options. I think you can totally do both! In a way, some of these tools actually allow you more space and time to "care about the craft" because they can take care of all of the mundane boilerplate for you.
A man once said "Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships."[1]. Well IMO these tools allow programmers the time/space to care about data structures and their relationships -vs syntax and such.
