ForTheKidz

Eh, most of the benefits are offset by the stress of having to care about the needs of corporate america and all the ensuing implications of making a living by destroying society. Just because it's not a physical job doesn't mean this stress won't kill you.

It's also worth noting that developers remain some of the most proportionately under-compensated jobs compared to the revenue we drive and we're all aware of it. It's the shareholders that need to justify their existence.

The dysfunction at those places is more than enough to cause burnout by itself. Source: I work at one such job now.

> I'm happier making my own deal with the boss.

And i bet your boss is even happier!

I suspect many of these open source developers are employed in this capacity on some level by for-profit corporations (which sadly does bring a high degree of dysfunction in terms of resource allocation). But I can't imagine being this productive as a side-gig.

Hell no. That's what the state and taxes are for. I certainly don't need more crap from a gift shop in my life. The reason why I'm proud to be an american is because we fund stuff like this an national parks and libraries and the best postal service in the world. Without these things we're just sad, ignorant people obsessed with money and comfort

I don't think it's depressing—every generation has to find their own voice.

Strikes me as quite a positive thing that the romance was removed from this situation.

> You can configure it with a GUI, or in XML, or using a type safe Kotlin DSL.

This is making me realize I want a CI with as few features as possible. If I'm going to spend months of my life debugging this thing I want as few corners to check as I can manage.

The browser is a platform lockin. One with shitty search and spam on most pages and javascript.

Maybe we need a new type browser that doesn't try to be an app platform but rather tries to be a document browser.

> The fact is that if you want to maximize your "market value", you still need to be _very_ good at React.

In some sense yes, but full-stack engineers are nowhere near the top of "market value". Frontend has a pretty hard ceiling on compensation. Past a certain level of advancement you'll never need to build a UI again.

If chatgpt is scraping the web, why can they not link tokens to source of token? being able to cite where they learned something would explode the value of their chatbot. At least a couple of orders of magnitude more value. Without this chatbots are mostly a coding-autocomplete tool for me—lots of people have takes, but it's the tying into the internet that makes a take from an unknown entity really valuable.

Perplexity certainly already approximates this (not sure if it's at a token level, but it can cite sources. I just assumed they were using a RAG.)