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It happened for me once by pure chance.

I was looking to leave a secondment I was on, and received an offer, right as the leader of the client I was seconded to said we’d like to take you on permanently and we’ve cleared it with your company, here’s the offer. I used that as leverage and left.

Otherwise, I agree, it’s a snowball chance in hell to coincide them.

My 8yo has an iPad with Osmo Awbie which he loves. You use physical tiles to program steps in a logic game like “move right 3”, “turn 90deg”…

They have a bunch of other programs too but for some reason I seem to only be able to find them on Amazon now.

He did want to create Roblox levels and Blender based characters and it was just too much to start with.

Hopefully after living a long and fulfilling life? Geez

The tortoise and the hare is an important point to raise - this is exactly how I feel.

But how long before AI is Good Enough that the point is irrelevant?

Maybe because others aren’t “disrupting” everyone else

I agree with this outcome. When you do raise issues nothing gets done about them and so if you continue down that path they will see the writing on the wall and plan your replacement.

“Everything is fine” until a key milestone is hit - it’s time to move on, or there’s an internal role you’d like to apply for.

…does he think it’s “safer”?

This remote colleagues problem is my issue. I don’t mind coming back in (except the cost) but it is very irritating and pointless as I’m a project manager with dispersed teams all across the country (and some in other countries). I come into the office, say hi to a few people I know, get on Teams calls all day in an open plan office with less privacy than at home, then commute home again.

We as end users have no agency in the relationship with vendors.

This write up is fantastic

Sorry I don’t have advice but as someone who started in infra before cloud, and has recently been involved in data (Fabric, PowerBI) programs, don’t take the steep learning curve of infra lightly.

You might think there was quite a lot of depth to learn in data.. wait till you see infra. Modern cloud environments also hide a lot of the technical stuff away so a basic course in understanding networking (TCP/IP, DNS, proxies, caching and so on) may be a good starting place.

Sounds pretty close to the dystopian predictions…….

Wasn’t NHS data anonymised, split into sets and sold a decade ago, then some corp bought multiple sets of the data and combined them easily, de-anonymising it?

Or you may find they write higher quality code - less bugs, more performant code, or so on.

Why should web browsers treat http like a bug? Many sites don’t need https.