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define “better at coding” and also estimate cost of fixing generated solutions

the cost of fixing and maintaining the AI generated code will turn out to be enormous and a lot of code will need to be thrown away and re-written from scratch by experienced developers

what about a collection agency?

I am interested in this question as well. In particular I would like to get an idea of what a product manager, project manager, program manager, engineering program manager, engineering manager, all do, in summary, on a day to day basis, without sugar coating it, and which of these roles is easier to transition into as an ex-founder, which ones you can level up the fastest / easiest in, and which ones will pay you more in the same amount of time as you climb up. I'm perplexed that this issue has not been discussed in more depth on HN.

They should but I am in the same situation with IP and code to show and FAANGs insisted on it. Eventually I gave up and consulting now.

Your homepage is a 404, so maybe you should fix that first. I can't share my website under this account for a variety of reasons.

I want to know who designed your site and who implemented it :-) One of the best sites I have ever seen.

Your reply is basically text book marketing thinking, which is very different from how things work in reality. Influencers require to be paid, and a one time short clip can easily be a 5 or 6 figure investment. Press doesn't cover you either unless you are willing to commit to ad spend. In any user community, only a small % of people will actively participate and promote your product for you for free.

please explain how really cheap marketing works

I have heard this many times before. You just need "product market fit". You just need to "go viral". Just do some "user testing".

In my industry after many years and carefully watching competitors I have come to the conclusion that it's "pay to play". If you want customers to see your product and be aware that you exist and that they can buy from you, you have to pay to build the brand and market the brand. As engineers we are focused on building a product. I've done that a few times over. People like the product once they know it exists and what it can do for them. But they don't know about it because I can't invest in marketing. I don't have that 200-300K to blow. My competitors do. They can afford it. Most of them were succesfull in other industries before they got into this one. Or they come from rich families.

It's easy to dismiss the power of marketing and branding and the importance of investing in that, as pure tech founders.

what if you haven't put enough money into the business to give it a fair chance at scaling?

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What you are describing sounds very close to what i'm experiencing.

I went through a situation where I was forced to bankrupt my company as a founder due to maturing debt and refusal from family to help. This despite having customers and a distribution network. So I fear I might have PTSD. Concentration and focus has always been a challenge since college even though I've done well in school and college. I've also struggled with being tired all the time and with anger and frustration causing me to become tired.

how well will these stand the test of time?

I have had experiences where a so called experienced developer "tests" me by asking a "trick question" related to something I created to verify whether I indeed created the thing. If the "thing" you built in the past has any level of complexity, you simply cannot remember all the details of what you built, and only the most recent aspect will be fresh in your memory to recall. So chances are very high you will fail the trick question. This is why trick questions don't work.

long interview cycles with lots of coding interviews make sense only when you have someone who has built nothing, and you need to find out if he would be able to build something. as soon as you have built something of any substantial size, coding interviews are no longer necessary especially if you have a CS degree and have reasonably good grades. the interview behaviour we see makes sense for countries where the cost of hiring and firing is very high, and this is not the case for the US.

from where I am in europe, I have different memories... unions were pretty aggressive when it came to companies like Volvo

leetcode challenges are a proxy for nothing

employers can simply hire based on past projects

unions are long established in europe, at least in western europe, and are a cornerstone of the social system. even white collar jobs have unions. this is in contrast to the US where unions are almost entirely non existent for white collar jobs like software engineering.

you can already hire and fire fast in the US but nobody does it. there is just a bunch of BS talk about "cost of hiring" and "risk".

i also found that "verification" consists of "trick questions". if you can't answer the trick question, then people assume you are lying or a fraud. this doesn't work very well and optimizes for people able to answer trick questions and for those who get turned on asking these type of questions (i.e. people who are labeled "smart").

coding interviews do not attract the best of the best

As an employer you can hire people who have past projects they delivered and who can show you code they wrote and talk you through it. You can hire them and fire quickly if they don't work out. Leetcode is useless and experienced people will not waste time with coding interviews. These type of coding interviews ask stupid "trick questions" which have no relationship to day to day software development and attract freshly graduated candidates or people more interested in proving how smart they are instead of people who can build things and deliver. The problem is that once your company is full of these type of people that you will attract more of these useless people (like is the case at google).

I thought this was about the adventure game Loom but no.

what does CVP stand for? same thing as corporate development?

how many of the openings have the actual intent of hiring? how many are for market rate compensation? how many are non AI jobs?

I am a linux user too, but if I try to do certain tasks with my linux workstation I lose an enormous amount of time, and the software is just not at the level where it needs to be to carry out those tasks. Just as a simple example, libreoffice is nowhere near what it needs to be.

I love linux and I like it for software development in the business I am operating in. I just don't have the time to screw around trying to get something working when my Mac just does it better and faster and with less stress.

exactly

yes and it is incorrect because as a business you need to carry the cost of doing business

you can fire someone immediately in the US. so i don’t understand why any of this is necessary in hiring.