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Also getting access to a huge amount of valuable information, or a nice margin for setting up anything sufficiently private

If I had jumped through Google's hiring hoops, I wouldn't either. Of course, this could be solved with money.

I miss the days where downtime would be like half a day or more and you could use it as an excuse to go home or do something else.

Weirdly people were less angry about it back then than we seem to be today.

Think of the pornographic possibilities

/s

Tenure should be more widespread.

Good execution and distribution require their own good ideas

Treating this as a universal standard of women for men is probably more harmful to anyone's dating chances than having roommates or not.

I expect FedNow to disappear since they will kill free tax filing by the IRS

>Add me to the list of people who acknowledge the problem but haven't heard any alternative.

Credentials like doctors and lawyers. You don't ask your surgeon for a demo before going in do you? Stakes are way higher and there are obviously bad doctors too.

Bad managers do way more damage than bad developers, and I don't think I've heard of managers having to mock manage a team for an hour, and I'm sure it's just as vulnerable to bullshitting.

What it really seems like is the lower end positions get the hoops to jump through while the upper level positions (manager and staff+ ICs) have it easy despite having way more impact and being paid more.

If people can explain their decisions, I'd say it's fair game. It would be nice to know up front if someone used AI of course.

The other implication here is that if a candidate can use AI for a take home and ace the interview, then maybe the company doesn't have as tough of problems as it thought and it could fill this seat quickly. Not a bad problem to have.

Leetcode for CRUD app positions is overkill.

"hey guys check this out i figured out people will pay anything to avoid dying on the streets haha supply demand number go up. what about if we do food and water next"

You could definitely do better if that's the only criteria.

Businesses realizing a lot of their problems are already solved will be of great help to developers.

I'm extremely tired of bespoke solutions when OTS or already-known would work just fine.

Figuring out a good reason to colonize the solar system

An optimal manufacturing and logistics network for the solar system

Inventing replicators and dispensing with capitalism

Sure I would, as long as they tax billionaires even more and guarantee it. I do CRUD app development, I'm not even responsible for anything as potentially dangerous as a train. Superintelligence would very likely take my job anyway, so I won't get taxed for long.

This stuff is naive. There's a bunch of people who want a large income (wealth) disparity, and they will fight to preserve it unless you give them an equivalent station in the 'new world'.

But you will still need to sustain ex-workers if they can't get normal jobs, and those same people at the top will not tolerate the taxes required to sustain a basic level of living for much wider population. They already can't tolerate the idea of a much smaller population using food assistance or healthcare from the government.

That leads me to think this is not really a visionary statement, but just a signal that Mark isn't intentionally trying to bring about a new dystopia, and here's his proof. And if a dystopia happens to come about, you can't blame him because he had pure intentions; clearly it was everyone else who just didn't agree with him and it's their fault.

Maybe make Meta a not-for-profit and there might be some credibility here.

A really expensive, state-of-the-art gunship with nukes and a coffee machine doesn't hurt either

I think most of us would take a nice yacht over a desk job

It's still good for reputation. This is by a researcher at a company, so a benefit for both of them. Plus if we didn't have bug bounty programs, they'd have to willingly work at Microsoft to do this research.

This is some "put the comma in front of the column name in SQL" logic

>compression culture

I don't think it's "%s culture" but just 'culture', a culture which has embraced social media apps prioritizing short forms of communication which lack the nuance as explained in the article. A culture that needs to go faster and faster either for dopamine[0] or profits. Number go up and number go up faster.

It's pretty hard to break this when many of our social signals for success and survival are now wired up like this.

It's also why you need to memorize a bunch of leetcode to get a job as a developer now. Who cares about the nuance that most jobs won't need it? Google is doing it, and so should we.

[0] replace with whatever neurological process that gives instant gratification

>or maybe it’s their executives who are afraid?

I'd say yes. It seems like an unforced error to them to broadcast publicly how bad things might be, but that's because they want software to be an efficient factory that turns computer cycles into money.

FWIW, it the "insult Kim Jong-Un" meme that's been going around doesn't work

This is a design/requirements problem to me, not a language one. You can handle no internet connection in just about every language, but you probably won't if you don't say something about needing to do that, and plan how to store/access the data in that failed state.

If the stakes were higher (say, brain surgery to get some study results), you'd want even more planning around storage/access so that your disk doesn't die and the server is unreachable at the same time and lose the only copy. Letting a developer come up with this on their own is a footgun with an incredibly sensitive trigger.

The other reason it's design/requirements is so everyone knows and it's not just Tim the developer coming up with his own idea and not really detailing it to anyone, and then Tim gets hit by a bus and someone has to go figure out what he did (or more likely, fired because they thought AI could do all of this for them).

>I don't think it's at all surprising that the injection of identity politics into the software industry has had a negative effect on quality.

If it had any effect, it would be negligible compared to offshoring and weak incentives.

Someone's jealous

A fine addition to my "every programmer should know" collection that I never use because I only ship CRUD apps

If you properly learn the skills, then refreshing your skills takes way less time than learning them the first time. This means you didn't really lose the skill.

>Sure someone won't fire you because you can't balance a binary tree by hand, but it certainly might exclude you from getting that next job

People that do this need their behavior changed. Testing people on quickly find-able implementations is an absolute circus. Obviously an exception if the job actually involves writing CS algorithms, but most of them do not.

>And with those new skills, your old skills will start to atrophy.

Skills don't work like muscles, please stop with this thinking model of the world. No one is going to fire you because you don't have the same speed of recall of language constructs and have to look more things up. Speed of coding is not the damn bottleneck.

Plus have a little faith in your brain that you could get back to that point if you wanted to.

>This entire industry has lost its goddamned mind.

Yep, stay-with-the-fad pressures mean people need to farm experience using those fads.

It won't change until the industry is okay with slowing down

Cannot understate how absolutely enraging it is every time "basic economics", "supply and demand", or "basic capitalism" comes up as a thought-terminating response despite everything government does to keep failing stuff going