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Did you advocate for yourself? Doing good work is half the battle. The other half is "sales and marketing" i.e making sure that people are aware that you're a good worker.

They work in VC, PE, or investment banking.

> leading indicator for what's gonna happen in people medicine.

It's been happening for a long time now: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/15/magazine/doctors-moral-cr...

The shareholders (me, you, our 401ks) demand growth.

Source?

> The client (end user) side seems to do well, considering that Google reports IPv6 end user traffic of almost 50% these days.

That's because all mobile data connections are on IPv6

It's just rude

It generally is. It's best not to base life decisions based on anecdotes of extreme outliers from strangers on the internet.

Nobody has any desire to muddle through life

Copilot has been incredibly useful for me

> Does your person in Peru have experience with US labour law? US Taxes?

Why would, say, a Ruby developer need to know any of these things? I don't think most US developers are familiar with them, other than during tax season.

Ironically it's technology that's shortening the gaps between offshore / onshore resources.

Yep. Not to mention LLMs bringing down language / cultural barriers.

We're digging our own graves here.

I've been to a few weddings now where the couple met on an app. Keep your chin up, king.

Not everything needs to be useful. If you didn’t enjoy it, that’s okay. I did.

They are doing it. Slowly, but surely.

Your doctor has significantly more education and training than a PA or NP.

The additional cost of seeing a doctor would quickly be recouped by the reduction in unnecessary / inaccurate referrals that would come from a lesser-trained medical professional.

Tetris on the NES still has massive tournaments. It’s pretty interesting to watch these super-young games (relative to chess, tennis, etc.) mature and develop as genuine fields of competition.

Politics = economics

No way. Military contractors are barred from hiring overseas, or giving up ownership stakes to overseas entities. It's why they're great places to work if job security is your thing.

What does this add to the conversation? You didn’t even put in enough effort to complain about actual things…

As if an 11-year-old will absorb any of that...

Have groups of individuals been any less misguided?

Eugenics is one of those ideas that might sound good in theory, but a world in which the government has absolute control over one of your most basic human instincts is a horrible world.

> Or it is OK for the individual but not individuals at scale?

Yes, that is precisely the case.

The issue is: who decides who is fit for breeding? You?

Maybe you do a good job, but this sort of power will inevitably become corrupted by a failed art student sooner or later.

You sound like a great parent!

Because they indicate that a company cannot do anything more creative with their capital than use it to inflate their stock price.

Just curious, did you take this route yourself? If so, at what age?

We are fucked. I have no hope in humanity managing this technology responsibly and no hope in my future. The months since ChatGPT's release have been some of the worst in my life, mental-health-wise.

Truthfully, if LLMs make an MD career unviable, then we are simply fucked. I do think that day will come, but if I need a career for the next 30 years then I believe that MD is a safe choice. Not even for technical reasons. I think there are legal and bureaucratic hurdles that will take decades to adjust.

I work with developers like that too. When they see me doing rudimentary things in Linux, they view me as a wizard. My job is safe and my skills are rare and valued.