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It's not that bad. You're describing what senior devs have always been.

Don't get me wrong. There absolutely is survival bias at play here. Historically speaking, most devs change careers long before they turn senior.

I'm just not understanding the hysteria. This is the latest set of reasons for people to quit. Before AI, it was outsourcing. If you want to, just quit already. If you want to stay, deal with it.

We need an "ai.ycombinator.com" too.

> Any politician with enough foresight to do what needs to be done gets removed, so those that remain are selected for their thick foreheads.

I probably should have quoted this part too. I was replying to the whole comment about the changing winds of politics. The economics is just one of the symptoms.

> What’s more fun is that while france is teetering on the brink, it’s hardly alone, and it’s collapse will tip the dominoes.

California, for example.

That last sentence is how we know you've never been there. The ratio is the same as anywhere else.

Isn't that just anyone with an "architect" job title though? I don't think that kind of dev is particularly rare at all.

I've found that "ops" has become far too overabstracted and jargony. Their moat is endless "certifications". Their "experts" are the dogmatic personality types who try everything in their power to prevent their feet from ever touching the ground like it's lava. They lack the kind of dev or sysadmin experience where you have to stand under your own constructions like a Roman engineer.

Any formerly-known-as "full stack" dev who kept at it for the last decade and a half would run circles around anyone in ops. That's every senior dev working right now who doesn't like to manage people.

It used to be that the ones who went SRE just wanted a pay bump for a bullshit job of relatively light coding puzzles and parroting stuff in meetings, but I guess that well has dried up with "AI".

I don't obsess anymore. I just make observations and move on. For most problems, there are many facets with few distinctions.

Reminds me of a Pynchon novel or my favorite lyrics from The Dismemberment Plan.

"So in the end, whatever, we die, we dissolve / Equations unbalanced, riddles unsolved / And we were never connected or involved / Except for the intersections and crazy mathematics / With no time and no space and no schedule and no place."

I miss having the crazy math dreams I used to get when I was in college. If only life could be an endless stream of turning over new stones.

Those are the media outlets to cut out of your life. They're just proxies for PR firms.

I don't believe there's more extreme loser thinking than betting it all on AI without a clear roadmap. Going nowhere fast like their ass is on fire.

100% this. The AI race is absolutely not about "intelligence" or some other naive scifi optimism.

It's global arbitrage of the "top answers". It's a new form of SEO because that's basically all LLMs are: a search engine in natural language.

This risk of staleness is also a huge risk for AI. It's actually worse than that since people are more willing than ever to stake so much on such an unstable technology.

I agree. KDE is by far the best desktop environment for Linux laptops with touchscreens.

Salary rates are yearly, bonuses are percentages of that salary, and shares are in quantity. Payment schedule is biweekly or monthly. Paid time off has no specific limit, but subject to approval by management (usually just don't take more than two weeks at a time and plan ahead according to workload). Sick/parental leave depends on federal and local laws. Federal holidays are mandatory.

This compensation package is reviewed yearly, and your role is simply a job title. I'm approaching middle age and have worked my entire adult life. Nowhere have I ever seen any hours specified. The closest to that is when I've had to help HR fill in the billable hours on timesheets for specific projects with certain clients. That's usually just approving whatever blanks Jira filled in for ServiceNow.

I'm, of course, not talking about working at a startup.