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I disagree. Especially for programmers that made more money than the vast majority of people. AI came and I'm switching to nursing. Writing code is not part of being a human. I'm glad AI will replace or greater reduce technical jobs and encourage more humanity focused jobs. Not to mention AI makes learning so much easier.

it's only depressing if you expect life to be static and unchanging. things happen. people adapt.

I think AI is better at coding than most other disciplines.

also ex big tech taking prereqs in prep for accelerated 12 month BSN at st marys. time to oversaturate again!

i guess inevitable at the end of the day when everyone just wants a high paying stable job they can build a life off.

reddit does okay from a profit standpoint. reddit does terribly from a bot or even a good community standpoint.

im sorry but maybe connecting to irc is a bit of a filter on the users they expect. especially with ai it should be almost no effort.

It was the same thing with javascript/typescript and python. Sometimes you just have to let people think what they want.

LMS doesn't improve teaching or learning. They are administrative overhead.

Maintaining an LMS doesn't seem like a good use of time. You should almost always outsource pieces that aren't your core business.

When I started spending 40-60 hours a week programming and wanted to spend my remaining time doing other things.

I think your final sentence is more accurate than your churn argument. AI doesn't double output, but actually writing the code is only a small part of the job.

I understand the vision, but how does this work on a global scale. e.g. American employees refuse to build this, but China's don't.

Edit: I originally ended with "What would have happened if Germany had a nuclear bomb and America didn't?", but I think it distracted from the point I was trying to make so moving this to an edit. I'm not trying to ask "is the US the bad guy". I'm trying to ask how to balance personal anti war sentiments with the realities of the world (specifically in this case keeping up in an arms race).

Purely anecdotal, but my friend's dad was a professor at well respected university in California doing Cancer research and recently moved to China even though he didn't want to because the money was too much for him to pass up.

Agree to disagree. He's setting up the argument that Z is strictly better than X.

Admittedly I haven't used C# in a few years, but to my knowledge it is much more ergonomic than java and personally it's my preferred language. Only thing stopping me from using it more is it has a much smaller community than java/python etc. Wondering what you think is missing.

I worked for a publicly traded corporate elearning company that was written this way. Mainly sprocs with a light mapping framework. I agree this is better as long as you keep the sprocs for accessing data and not for implementing application logic.

ORMs are way more trouble than they’re worth because it’s almost easier to write the actual SQL and just map the resulting table result.

Regarding your concerns about tutor emulation, your argument seems to be students use chatbots as a way to cheat rather than as a tutor.

My pushback is its very easy to tell a chatbot to give you hints that lead to the answer and to get deeper understanding by asking follow up questions if that's what you want. Cheating vs putting in work has always been something students have to choose between though and I don't think AI is going to change the amount of students making each choice (or if it does it won't be by a huge percentage). The gap in skills between the groups will grow, but there will still be a group of people that became skilled because they valued education and a group that cheated and didn't learn anything.

Is it true that it's bad for learning new skills? My gut tells me it's useful as long as I don't use it to cheat the learning process and I mainly use it for things like follow up questions.

Agree but at the same time talking about leaving the rat race and glorifying the simple life is old hat for anyone over the age of 25. It gets annoying reading trite advice written by someone that sees it as profound insight.

and no chinese nationals work in the US. oh wait yes they do. and in my experience the majority plan to return to china after making enough money.

I read the main problem with hiring chip factory workers in Arizona was the factory just didnt pay enough for the long hours demanded. I looked up the median salary and its only 50k so I'm assuming it's not crazy skilled labor (e.g. brain drain). Taiwanese workers just seem more willing to do it.

1g of sugar per serving is hardly anything. You are weakening your argument by being hyperbolic.

Being productive doesn’t consume my entire life but if i’m going to do two things that feel the same I may as well do the one that has other substantial benefits to myself and others. I spend enough time developing that side of myself at work. My free time should go to making myself more well rounded.

The article mentions one of the main appeals of factorio is you get to think like a programmer without bosses/overhead from actual work but it’s always been hard to get into games for that reason because I could just work on a side project with the same result. I really don’t understand the appeal.

not sure how it is with mandatory 5x a week in office. i had a good relationship with my manager (aka a lot of trust) and he basically let me do whatever i wanted (aka didnt care if i took days off assuming i was producing enough value) which has been the case for me everywhere i worked. it’s a big company. there’s not going to be one consistent experience.

when i was there and it was 3 days a week on call definitely wasn’t exempt

i worked there for a couple years. wasn’t terrible, money was fair, and people i meet always seem impressed when i mention i used to work at amazon music which is kind of nice.

i’ve got recruiters saying i can go back without a real interview because i left less than a year ago and i might go back. it’s really not any different than any other programming job i’ve had.

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from what I can see it never mentioned Israel directly giving money to Hamas. But encouraging payments seems close enough.

What is the alternative to dependencies if you are making a highly interactive web app? Large/old apps being a pain to maintain isn't something unique to javascript.

Even if react is made for SPAs (which is a murky definition anyway) there are many parts of react that make general website development better. For example dependency management is way easier and maintainable with npm/react than manually importing scripts in the right order the traditional way. Achieving high levels of interactivity is also much easier for the same reason.

Just because react was built for one things doesn't inherently mean its wrong to use it for other things.