trevormcneal

Yes

the whole tech thing is changing fast, ageism is a true thing, in a scenario where most of the previous knowledge can be ignored, being a senior with 5 years of experience, 10 or 20 doesn't change much. Given that young people usually simp for the companies much more due to being naive, they have a huge preference in the hiring process.

Tech is removing the root of the knowledge, migrating from understanding the solution, to quick copy&paste from some places.

Notice the fast decline in the last 20 years? Even active X was less crappy than the most well-polished actual react project, and active X was crap. Even java applets did more and in an easier way than modern frameworks and JS shit.

One simple page, with login, logout, some search, and navigation nowadays require a few plugins, router, state management, lib for requests, lib to handle cookies, lib for JWT, etc...

I recently tried and got exactly this, wouldn't be fair for the others to have to work more to compensate for me, and they wanted some committed to working. I will keep trying, maybe is the moment to shame these companies back to see if they change their behaviour.

Same with "MLOps" tools... same with every niche, bunch of useless tools just trying to grab some market.

But this is not a recent thing, every time the current thing gets flooded with crap ideas competing for some market share (ie longtail theory).

Sometimes the old ideas are just rebuilt, nocode is just RAD with different branding, event sourcing is just ESB, microservices is basically SOA...

What is scary that actually very little is being created, and a huge amount of crap just resuscitates from old tech, or is a skewed version of some working technology which tries to make it different so it doesn't look like a complete ripoff.

I love terminals, but honestly there isn't much to improve there IMHO is already good, I admire those who try and honest people who try to get a good idea into the market, I despise completely people trying to push any random hello world as a product which is basically a spyware full of trackers.

Came here just to weight in for each and every point. This is the best answer so far.

PhD is seem as a magical badge of super power, even if you can get a job without one, consider having it, is a 1.5x-2x salary multiplier.

If you are doing too many parallel things and context switching become a PITA, have an org document for each of your tasks, write your thought, experiments with code and output, your decisions, keep a references list with links and other important things.

Is also quite commnon to go back to some tasks to copy some code or pattern which you used, this will save you a lot of time.

If you have ADHD, us it to keep focus, you can easily manage tasks inside an org document, even go to the point of using just the console for work if too many things distract you.

Also check where you waste more time, optimisation should be focused, trying to increase your performance in some task which is not a bottleneck will cost you more time than if you just don't do anything.

Most of the time I asked myself "what is the next step?" and "what I was doing?", as well creating small pieces of code which require a of plumbing/debugging to later on fit into a bigger system. So org is the most productive thing for me.

But consider what you want to improve, before trying to improve any/everything.

Russia wont back off, Ukraine wont back off... Sooner or later will be cheaper to start throwing nukes, this shit got too barbaric already.

Don't listen to peasants, use RAR

I can say that I know people who are much less skilled than you and also less ethic, that are hacking into any low hanging fruit that they can and selling a shell (access) to those systems to FSB. I imagine that Ukraine would have a similar program to pay for such kind of access on Russia infrastructure or government systems.

AFAIK in US you need a fair trial before being punished, this is on the 10 amendments.

somehow people with the cognitive capacity of a rotten potato would call you science denier for being pro freedom. I'm not talking about vaccines and such, but being pro freedom as in being against a survilance state which can fuck you up at any time and has total control using coercion over all aspects of your life.

We got at such stage in history which is impossible even to have an honest debate about freedom without having legal problems and risking our careers to just end. Let's hope internet still a safe place for this for a while.

> Expectations have changed, technology has changed

This I agree, nowadays people start with a lot already done, no need to write a custom audio codec, or image compression trick or whatever, not only there is plenty of code ready for doing so, but there are plenty of computational resources to use on runtime.

Back then you would see advances first in the games and later on being documented, now they are released as papers, you hope that it will be implemented on some engine somewhere, and games using these techniques will be at least 5 years away from the paper release.