nswizzle31

Very well said. This is one of the most unintentionally hilarious posts I’ve ever read on HN.

Cool post, love your writing style and your journey sounds intense. You're clearly very self-motivated.

> So here’s some privileged-not-so-actionable advice to everyone trying to break into the field — get a big name on your resume.

This is key advice and very actionable imo... mainly because I think it works even if that big name is only from an internship (as you discovered).

Just like I did for Fox One during the World Cup and then 4 months and $120 later I remember to cancel it.

Then I pay for a subscription for a tool to remind me to cancel subscriptions and forget to cancel that one too.

You’re missing the subconscious part. You make associations you’re unaware of and you choose the product without thinking.

If it didn’t work, they wouldn’t do it and it wouldn’t be the cornerstone of the internet economy. No one is immune.

Incoming? Literally everything in the world from chocolate to housing to software has gotten worse / smaller and costs more over the last 5-8 years.

Maybe this is the bottom and things only get better from here. I’m hopeful.

People would appreciate and enjoy this work 100x more if it was written in your broken English. Either your English is good enough to read (even with some minor grammatical errors) or it's not and Claude generated most of the body text. In any case, not interested in your slop.

Vibetown is a site where you can create a public sandbox (shoutout fly.io sprites / machines) that anyone can contribute to with their AI agents. You can also get matched with a random person in a sandbox to vibe code with them, and if you like what you built then you can open it up and keep it running! Think of it something like twitch meets lovable. There is a chat in each room, along with a localhost preview. People take turns connecting their Claude Code subscriptions and making any changes to the app. Sandboxes automatically go to sleep after a while, but can be woken up.

It's completely free because right now I'm only supporting frontend apps. Use it to create art or cool websites without anything fancy. In the future, I will add database, AI (api), and other integrations.

The short-term goal is just to see how people collaborate with strangers on public apps. The long-term goal is to make it possible for indie devs to build fully working apps with others that actually generate revenue.

Let me know what you think! I have 4 public sandboxes running right now that anyone can hop in and contribute to.

There are already tons of countries in Europe and Asia that are dependent on a few monopolies. People still live their lives just fine.

Re: war.. that’s why US spends orders of magnitude more on military than anyone else. If any infra is hit on US soil then im heading to the bunker because most of the world will have already been reduced to dust.

Via lived experience and social connections. Having done something similar or being able to ask someone who has.

The point is that judgment won’t be needed on technical aspects. It will be more soft decisions like how to manage the agents.

The future seniors won’t be people defined by strong technical knowledge. They’ll be the ones with “autonomy and judgment” as Anthropic puts it (read: highly social; good at climbing the corporate ladder; strong educational/professional pedigree).

These people won’t necessarily need to be trained in CS, because in 10 years no one will need to know what a data structure is. So they can come from other fields (law, business) or just from other roles within the company.

Note this is basically how it already works in every non-technical field where there’s no clear definable “skill” on which to evaluate people.

You’re more than welcome to keep writing code by hand. It’s not illegal… wouldn’t recommend it though.

Good point about infra, but that’s already the case with Cloudflare, GitHub, aws, etc