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> I'm an agentic engineer with an emphasis in software engineering

This is odd. You wouldn't consider yourself a software engineer with an emphasis in...agentic engineering, or something like that? What is your background?

Making end users happy is a side effect. My own well being comes first.

You postulated this in another reply to me so I'll say here, why would I seek to make end users happy and work myself to the bone when leadership reaps the awards?

Even with salary negotiation there is almost no commensurate compensation you get under any employer that matches the value you bring to the company. That's how it's designed of course, by taking a base wage you trade off the risk of your income stream suddenly failing.

I am at that point now where that risk does not seem so scary anymore, which is odd to me. I never thought I'd consider taking the risk before. And I am learning that founders are usually driven by the feeling that I have.

Just because I am not happy with my employment situation doesn't mean I don't care about tech. I am privileged to even say that my job hasn't sucked all the joy out of building projects outside of work. None of this is a prerequisite for me ranting :)

>"don't bother me with shit, just pay me a salary"

Well I'll admit this is me. Albeit previously I would have to generate working solutions meticulously to get my code reviewed and merged, as is normal. And it would be good work I could be proud of because _I_ wrote it!

But now the same people who would scrutinize me also outpace me with agents (the good developers you refer to) and also continue to scrutinize me. I recognize my own mediocrity in the face of my peers. So I don't know, I don't really care about my work quality anymore, the incentive of "do enough to put bread on the table" is now a much higher bar that I am struggling to meet.

This year has made me realize salary work really isn't a proper incentive to fully apply myself because being stuck under these guardrails and leadership decisions are a huge turn off. More than ever.

It would be improved if he appended "make no mistakes".

Would you really compare a Kindle to a full fledged tablet with endless video and addictive games? I think you are being hard on yourself.

+1 to the RX 7900 XTX and also the RX 7900 XT model (20gb), much more affordable if you're trying to dip your toes into localgen

It's more than I'm not encouraging to engage with OP's point because he just wants to be a bigot. But that is separate from India having a shame based culture.

Shame I had to vouch you, I agree with you. Arguably those insights are just used to train models and profit off you as well. To a lesser extent this information can be captured by paying API prices to any provider. So ultimately if your threat model has no tolerance for this you need to go fully local. Models that run on 24gb VRAM are...useable now, but will not have the capabilities of these hosted products. So depends where your values lie.

Right but not most people as I said.

Perhaps "real computer" means being able to perform general purpose tasks. I don't think iPads are capable of that with how locked down they are.

I do believe them to be computers that excel in specialized settings. Like in your two examples.

Thank you for your ancedote. I think OP is emphasizing that no, most people would give a shit because most people can't spend 1k on a panel.