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That’s not at all what I’ve seen. If someone’s properly leveled at Staff, it tends to be a bit easier to sustain than Senior in the same company, but you do have to be selective about new roles at new companies. Age shouldn’t be an issue for someone with Staff+ skills except in the most dysfunctional, unprofitable companies.

You probably mean a level or three above Staff at FAANG.

I am going to judge, because people need to hear it. Anyone with $5M in invested assets who still thinks of making money as their top career priority needs to learn to think bigger. That’s your safety net, not your score in life. Now you can focus on what you find it rewarding to be doing, and how you can provide the most value to others.

This is about budget caps (“I don’t want to spend more than $100, cut me off once I spend that much”) not price caps (“no one is allowed to charge more than this price per token”).

If you just need to receive an SMS but don’t actually need a cellular network, Google Voice is free.

If you can stomach $3/mo + tax (totaling a little over $40/year), UltraMobile PayGo is the cheapest consumer option I’ve seen. It’s a T-Mobile owned MVNO. It comes with 100MB, 100 minutes and 100 text messages per month, and is pay as you go after that.

Past that, I’d look into IoT cellular options.

What kind of software are you talking about? Test harnesses were commonly used in 2006. JUnit was created in 1997.

Or it does make economic sense, but the people drawn to power are too deluded to understand.

I don’t mean for one data center, I mean globally. There are resource limits to this planet, and we’ve been stretching past them in the short term, and are starting to see the long term consequences. The problem is people think “oh, it’s ok if I pollute a little more because the world is large, and the god we’ll create in our image with these machines will figure it all out for us.” That’s an unsustainable business model based on impressive technology managed by people stuck in childlike fantasies.

More likely all they’ll pull ahead in is making an even bigger mess.

Winners don’t decide what is sustainable, the reality of the planet does.

It’s not just a feel good thing. There are real resource limits, even if someone chooses to foolishly not believe that. If you can get more done with a given level of power and other resources, you get more out of your data centers.

There is a huge business opportunity to become the world leader in sustainable data center design. Whoever wins could one day have immense influence over every single data center in the world (or even out of this world, where efficient resource utilization would likely be essential). It’s disappointing to see the United States miss out: US companies and research institutions would actually be extremely competitive in this field with the right government incentives.

There once was a time when tech companies mostly stayed out of SF. People who worked in the valley but hated it lived in SF amongst mostly people who had nothing to do with the tech industry. Then someone had the bright idea to put branch offices or even whole companies in SF. Convenient for the commute (and you could move to the East or North Bay), but then SF got overrun by the tech monoculture + NIMBYs trying to “keep it the same” by preventing construction, effectively kicking out so many of the people who were the reason why valleyphobic tech workers sought out the City of Saffron in the first place.

Or is it a transition to truly declarative programming?

Yes, and your second paragraph above is the interesting part that I would want the reader to focus on, starting from the title.