Vampiero

Brother you're arguing on HN of all places that education is a training pipeline while missing the fact that reddit and HN are the de-facto training run for institutional propaganda. How many reddit comments are just regurgitated knee jerks and puns? All of them that's how many. That's a training pipeline. How much of HN is braindead takes from people who value status more than knowledge and competence? All of it that's how much. That's another training pipeline for the next "Show HN: here's a picture of my cock". The fact that you recognize the "Show HN:" token is proof that you were trained. There's really nothing much to add here. I believe you already agree with me but in any case I spelled it out so that the next person can stop huffing the human chauvinism copium.

could this be an example of... No, I need to breathe. This website takes personal attacks personally. I'll just throw a question at you instead. Is all social media being shaped like facebook convergent evolution or a deliberate tactic to make everyone stupid and amnesiac so that they don't remember what happened one year ago?

It's cheaper to hire 5 juniors and to give Tim a mental breakdown than it is to hire 5 Tims.

Realistically though, if you really did hire 5 Tims you would deliver in 1/5th of the time and the software would actually be decent on the first iteration.

It seems to me that consultancy companies actually want inexperienced developers because they can bill their inexperience to the client as they train them to become useful. Awful and, as stated, a major source of mental breakdowns for the Tims who have to put up with their bullshit. And also for the juniors who are always running from fire to fire as they try to fix the clusterfucks they created.

This is not how you should do stuff, but it's how everyone does it. At some point it's just the blind leading the blind, because Tim also has other shit to attend to and can't review every LOC on every PR by himself.

I didn't become a senior by being mentored by other people, btw. I became one because I've always loved doing what I do, and nothing more. The internet and physical books mentored me impersonally. So I'm sure that they can mentor other people just fine, and I don't see why I should waste my time just because my boss is stingy and can only hire a couple of people with my experience or drive to learn outside of work.

And let's be clear -- mentoring and being taught something are two very different things. I'm not anal about the latter. I'm anal because I want to write code, I don't want to tell people that they should learn to fucking read the error messages and google them every 5 seconds.

Though right now I'm being very brutally honest. I'm actually nice and friendly to them in person, and I'm very patient. But that causes me to break every once in a while because I secretly loathe it!

If only someone had warned us...

That is literally any economic model that assumes capitalism as the underlying system.

Morality and ethics are just a way to hurt profits.

john carmack is my spirit animal

realistically any scenario is possible if the asteroid is going fast enough

No wonder dogs like to eat shit off the ground

Bold of you to imply that GPT asks questions instead of making baseless assumptions every 5 words, even when you explicitly instruct it to ask questions if it doesn't know. When it constantly hallucinates command line arguments and library methods instead of reading the fucking manual.

It's like outsourcing your project to [country where programmers are cheap]. You can't expect quality. Deep down you're actually amazed that the project builds at all. But it doesn't take much to reveal that it's just a facade for a generous serving of spaghetti and bugs.

And refactoring the project into something that won't crumble in 6 months requires more time than just redoing the project from scratch, because the technical debt is obscenely high, because those programmers were awful, and because no one, not even them, understands the code or wants to be the one who has to reverse engineer it.

Except that AI is actually MUCH more expensive!

Have _you_? It lost its novelty after a couple of days.