harshalizee

App monetization is wild these days. $9.99/month for a todo app with email that was generated with AI.

Meanwhile, an AI subscription starts at $20/month and you can vibe code your own version to suit your preferences and free forever.

You would severely limit yourself if you're strict about your list without nuance. GitHub is pretty much bog standard in most companies unless you're working for the few using mercurial, etc.

I work in a MS stack and most of your list is untrue for my case. We use slack for messaging, Confluence, Wikimedia, and GDrive for documentation, Google Mail for email, I develop primarily dotnet/C# apps on a MacBook pro M5, have access to all major LLM providers and primarily use Claude and antigravity.

There only thing that checks of your list is Azure hosting.

On a personal note, it has been by far one of the best place I've worked at. The dotnet ecosystem is so well developed and rich, I expect to be paid a huge premium if I ever have to deal with Java again.

Considering how the current ecosystem of ad-free paid subscriptions still have ads, it's not too much of a stretch that they will eventually double-dip with their models.

how is a job with a salary of $750k "cheap labor" anywhere on earth?

Great job! That actually infuriated me. The most unrealistic part is that the entire site was very responsive. You need to add a ton of input lag, sluggishness, and spinners when loading a page. That will downright piss me off!

Also, RIP to the Tile company. I haven't seen a company fade away that fast when Apple came out with Tag

The vast majority of jobs on there says they do take home (ignoring the fact that it's not all dev jobs).

Take homes are somehow worse. It self selects for people who have ample time and no family obligations. I'd rather do leetcode

I would have probably still kept paying for Evernote if they just split the application into Evernote Classic (w/o any of the Collab, texting, bloat) and another with all the bells and bloat.

At the end, it was so bloated that there was a slight lag in the editor which made it infuriating to type on it. Switched and never looked back.

Yeah, enterprise code has that trope of being enterprise-y, verbose and bad. In my experience, that has always been the opposite. At the big corps/FAANGs I worked at, a single line of change can adversely impact millions of paying customers, so a lot of the verbosity and harnesses exists to dampen the failure modes. Most of the terribly written stuff has always been at startups, where devs fling nearly anything across the finish line, if it barely works the happy path.

You also end up with a single point of failure. They leave, go on vacation, hit by a bus, etc. and they take every undocumented and tribal knowledge with them.

Mud/Clay baths are a real thing in fancy spas

Your hypothesis straight up assumes that a) Americans have the best possible education required for the work (we don't; functional illiteracy has never been higher in the last few decades). And b) Americans are the most fluent in English (again see a.).

Even if the above assumptions are true the set of Americans who are qualified will be completely outnumbered by, say, even 2% of qualified people from a huge population like China/India/etc.

Oh wow! I thought you were likely nitpicking something slightly off center. Nope, the article is straight up truncated on the right with no recourse. This is on an iPhone in the Safari browser.

The fantasy series, Farseer trilogy, and beyond (great read) has "Map-Faces". People subjugated to slavery, wearing their current owner's crest on their cheeks so everyone immediately knows who they belong to. Of course, when traded/sold to another, means yet another "map".

Seems like the valley is getting there and dropping all pretense pretty rapidly.