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Jobs are ephemeral, as companies consider employees to be replaceable / expendable cogs in the machine.
Keeping expectations equal makes sure all parties benefit. Companies base their decisions on revenue and cost, employees should as well.
Any past illusions that loyalty to a company has personal beneift are long since dispelled.
This clickbait reads like a long and twisted version of the old boomer adage "Just walk in there with a firm handshake and ask for a job". Yes the job market has changed, just like it has for every generation, but plenty of candidates are adapting, but there's only so much an individual can do against the odds. If the employment statistics are so fucking great, why is this board and others filled with stories from people of all ranges of age experience spending months and hundreds of connection attempts with zero effect.
The author needs to upskill learn and how to write like a professional, or pay for a better LLM. The lack of proper capitalization and sentence structure would make him unemployable with any company or hiring manager I've ever worked with. Including myself when I was a hiring manager.
Any statement to the idea of a moral compass is just a form of marketing when the politics of the day align with it.
The best we can to is have independent moralities, while balancing that with the need to eat.
Also because Pip ain't perfect, but it is stable in a sense.
The ClickHouse and DuckDB dialects for example extend the language with analytic options not found in ANSI SQL, nor T-SQL, Pl/PgSQL, etc. DuckDB QoL enhancements are greatly missed when not available.
The rest of us have no guarantees, and have learned the trade-offs are less and less likely to be worthwhile.
Personally I'd consider efficient and economical use of AI to be a key skill for a good developer. Using AI for everything at full throttle would appear to be a crutch. I wonder if this will eventually become a hiring criteria for companies without unlimited budgets (most of them).
Obviously business IP for non-China based companies should be treated carefully, but for personal projects where would the cost savings not be worth a risk?
Big tech executives, no matter what their previous accomplishments were, eventually become sales people. Their job, as they see it, is to push a narrative that benefits the businesses or industries their wealth is tied too.
Students don't want to hear what billionaires want. They want to hear what will enable them to survive in a newly chaotic job market that seems ever more weighted against job seekers.
This is what brought me to Python (1.5)
Working on Windows servers, using the ActiveState Perl Development Kit satisfied the need for a better scripting environment than batch files, but I was a poor Perl programmer, it just never stuck.
Python solved the problem of "What the heck was I trying to do?" when looking at my own 6 month old code. It is still my primary language today.
Same reason some of us choose Linux over Windows.
I have not used Gemini in a month.
I think use of the Watcom compiler led me to Vi way back then, and I am still trying to learn to not use the arrow keys.
I can only imagine the fashion horrors created by AI sycophancy. That said, most "fashion" is already a horror show.
The do-more-with-less cancer that is infecting so many companies, where the tumor is Continuous Growth.
Someone needs to inform the management of the last three companies I worked for about this.
> SparkID generates 21-character IDs using the Base58 alphabet, which specifically excludes 0, O, I, and l. No visual ambiguity, no hyphens, no underscores. Just clean, alphanumeric strings.
But the example ID has both the "1" digit and the letter "o":
> "1ocmpHE1bFnygEBAPTzMK"
Am I missing something?
Sensible engineers who look AI as another (potentially powerful) tool in the toolbox "aren't forward looking enough". I watched this happen in real time at my previous company, where every discussion about quality was interpreted as slowing down progress, and the only thing that was looked on favorably was the idea of replacing developers with machines - because they are "cheaper and faster".
The logical minds here on HN are less prone to believing in magic and AI fairies, but they are often not the ones setting the rules. And the number of companies being run by people with critical thinking skills is getting smaller by the day.