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The cost of generating lines of code which look good has dropped 90%.... Take that as you will.

The majority of software engineers today, (mostly in big tech) are not interested in software engineering. They studied it to make money. This happened before LLMs. Add the fact that software development isn’t deterministic. And you have a perfect storm of chaos.

But our discipline has been through similar disruptions in the past. I think give it a few years then maybe we’ll settle on something sane again.

I do think the shift is permanent though. Either you adapt to use these LLMs well or you will struggle to be competitive (in general)

> I find it interesting how starkly bimodal attitudes toward employer loyalty are.

It's because employers create a narrative which makes people think they are valued beyond the transactional. People develop relationships with employers and have trust in them. In my experience it is very easy to fall into this narrative unless you have experience otherwise.

The article forgot to mention websockets add state to the server! Load balancing will require sticking sessions. At scale this tends to mean separating websocket servers completely from http servers.

What if they are providing negative value?

> this author play acts his way through the solution.

I thought it was a nice bit of irony. At work there's so much play-acting but all in a serious tone.

I wonder if people had the same reaction when children started using calculators.

This is another way to determine if a company is a "start-up"! If you work at a company that has OKRs, it's no longer a start-up or it's time to bail because said start-up is about to fail.

> The US, UK, EU and realistically most developed countries I would say have fairly similar quality of life within margin of error.

Having lived in the EU (Netherlands) and the US (California), I would say the inequality in the US is much worse. Especially in larger cities. To the point where I sometimes wonder if I'm living in a "developed" country.

There are a lot of big egos in team sports, and in high performing teams you often have a team full of big egos, although there are usually a few "team players". I wonder what coaches think about ego.

> …it couldn't find product market fit. That's not something that's really on the developer

Why is it not on the developer?

It would be nice to point out that: "PredictionHealth is currently not hiring in the following states: CA, MT, HI, or NY"

Yeah what’s the hesitation for having an API?