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Comment · 1 day ago
That's reinforced by how hiring is done though. I rarely if ever run into companies that hire for fundamentals. Only the Google tier of companies do that.
Comment · 1 day ago
Sre seems to be disappearing anyway in favor of infrastructure and platform engineering. Which seems to just be kubernetes admin jobs using terraform.
Comment · 1 day ago
> If human SREs (okay, now we have to use adjectives like human ) only engage with Tier 3 incidents, i.e. the novel, never-before-seen outages, where do they build the intuition to handle them?

Ime this doesn't happen or reflect the reality of work. I had one mythical job where I wasn't directly on call and only received escalations and didn't have a problem with debugging whole system issues. I still worked on the whole system day to day.

Also I feel like this post is also my frustration with sre. In people's minds it's just the job that deals with issues pumped out by swes and they have to work magic because no one else can be bothered to try at their job. This just reinforces that idea.

Comment · 1 day ago
Does the US have anything going for it right now besides ai and supporting industries? Something like nationalize or anything extreme would wreck the economy.we would all suffer
Comment · 1 day ago
I know AI is generally unpopular, but isn't the government using it pretty heavily to do their jobs? From the outside it seems ingrained.
Comment · 2 days ago
Where else were people getting answers and help from between 2018 and AI getting good in the mean time? As I remember it there wasn't really an alternative.

Maybe it was more consolidation of tech and better docs over time.

Comment · 3 days ago
Like doing dance videos, aspiring to be influencers and trying to pump up their follows and interactions?
Comment · 4 days ago
I'm always curious why people who don't care about work or tech spend time commenting on career sites and topics
Comment · 4 days ago
I guess I would change what I said to specify a certain sub type then
Comment · 4 days ago
For some cases, but the industry has already swung back on some language like master branch.
Comment · 5 days ago
Can you still get unemployment too?
Comment · 5 days ago
It feels like tech overcorrected from allowing assholes to be assholes. To now having words and tone policed constantly.
Comment · 5 days ago
They have net income in the billions per quarter
Comment · 6 days ago
The outsource comment was interesting. Gaming didn't come up in this article but seems similarly hit. I was recently surprised to see how much game dev work is done outside the US for American companies.

Also thought the graphs around covid were interesting, there wasn't a spike up or anything it's just been consistently down.

The article said we're not in a recession. I thought we were lol

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