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Sorry to hear, my story resembles yours, might be helpful for you:

Despite proper oral hygiene, I've got 3 infections this year alone, including 2 abscesses while being < 30.

Asking the doctor for a possible systemic reason, she said "must've been pretty stressful period for you, hasn't it?"

Also experiencing lots of cavity problems since childhood and being unsatisfied by the doctor's root cause analysis, I finally found out the root cause for the dental problems 2 months ago myself: "Hypermobility" due to a connective tissue disorder. I was diagnosed with weak connective tissue in an orthopedic context years ago, but desperation and LLM-assisted research made the connection!

Finally found people like me at r/eds and r/hypermobile. Basically, connective tissue disorder means weaker collagen in the dentin, rwhich esults in being much more prone to cavity.

In Germany AFAIK their Senior base salary ceiling is ~ 180k EUR - approx 210k USD for an Engineering role.

Thats quite competitive for a base salary, as high as max ICT5 Staff base at Apple Munich.

I think I feel the same in the sense that AI now allows me to choose more carefully what I'm actually working on and offload boring other tasks to the AI. Of course, it only works as long as the deadline allows it.

> As I've more reliably produced reasonable quality code with automation I've found my joy coming from coding solutions to my own day-to-day problems and less to do with solving the problems I'm employed to solve.

Not the best job security.

Wait a week with your judgement - most likely, Google is just bench-maxing very hard. If you look at the previous Flash models and the announcement on Google I/O, it was an absolute disaster. Reality diverged very much from the marketing (supposedly great benchmarks).

and I had to smile when asked about the intention behind the META-INF directory during an interview with JetBrains. Got the job, thanks Mr Persson

For-Profit Non-Profitable Closed-AI company called OpenAI

Indeed, it's the underlying principle of "division of labor".

Karl Marx' coined the term "Alienation" for describing most of the negative societal/human consequences of this principle, leading to isolation of humans "from themselves" (their natural will to construct something whole meaningful, not just complete a task in a process, but also isolation between humans themselves)

off topic, but related to the recent github alternative discussion:

Wow, this gitlab instance looked so much cleaner/simpler and less clunky than my past experiences! Also loaded really fast on first page load as well as subsequent actions

Sure, I've cancelled my Max 20 subscription because you guys prioritize cutting your costs/increasing token efficiency over model performance. I use expensive frontier labs to get the absolute best performance, else I'd use an Open Source/Chinese one.

Frontier LLMs still suck a lot, you can't afford planned degradation yet.

Maybe the Two Pizza rule:

No team at Amazon should be larger than what two pizzas can feed (usually about 6 to 10 people).

Intermediate lvl, not Amazon. And indeed I’ve also observed this to be the case, too startups pay such base salaries (eg Gitlab and Neon did) for similar lvl. But there aren’t too many such openings.

Not only, but also due to this. Relocation through switching teams is not possible. Compensation took a big hit due to dollar depreciation.

Worst case I'll end up being on unemployment insurance for a year, ~ 2800 EUR per month while travelling the world in my late twenties...

When property costs 1 million+ (the case in Berlin/Munich), financially it really doesn't matter whether I net 6500 EUR month working 50+ hours for FAANG or 4500 EUR working 35 hour weeks for a German corporate, even though the gross salary for the FAANG job is twice the German job.