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JPM is a massive bank, they don’t need to market.

Skill doesn’t but choosing what parts of a global conglomerate you chose to work in does. Going to build the newest AWS service that will change th world, maybe you will see a layoff, maybe you fail, maybe you succeed. Going to work in a core money printing factory for your business like Google ads, layoffs are less likely. GOing to work on HR/recruiting software to help your company hire more people, you sure as shit will see layoffs coming your way.

Not all roles in these big companies are viewed as equal when it comes to how leadership views the value your team/department/org plays within the companies bigger picture. Be business smart, not just engineering smart and layoffs likely don’t come your way.

Further this with being non-financially illiterate, save money, don’t live beyond your means, treat your stock RSUs as bonus income and life will start to look a lot different.

In what way? 10 years of engineering shouldn’t instill some confidence in my skill set?

Crazy isn't an explanation.

> of working very hard, instead of coasting

I work at a FAANG, not coasting and make a lot of money and have made a lot of money every year for nearly a decade. I'll continue to make a lot of money and not worry about whether my startup will or won't succeed.

Yes, I'm aware. The service in question wasn't easily able to be moved so we moved to m6i which isn't ARM based but does leverage nitro. We saw substantial improvements in that configuration too. Not sure what is different because you said m5 use nitro as well but my assumption was m6i with reduced hypervisor overhead from nitro was why we saw improvement.

In our case the instance type is about the only workhorse for the given job. High TPS (scales well to the core count) and needs a large on-disk configuration for low latency key value retrieval of data deployed on disk.

I did slightly misspeak on the instance move having seen your reply. We moved from m5.24xlarge to m6i.16xlarge. Sorry for the confusion.

That said, you shared some interesting information. I'd love to read up more on this, any specific place I can dig in a bit deeper regarding the finer specifics of these instance types and architecture?

I've seen first hand validation on massive workloads moving to Graviton based instances. This includes low latency high TPS java services and offline big data compute on EMR.

All combined the hype is quite real. Heck, even moving an intel based service to newer nitro based EC2 instances resulted in a drastic performance improvement. Moved from m5.24xlarge --> m6g.8xlarge with better service performance and improved latency characteristics. Intel is in trouble in my opinion.

> I do get disillusioned sometimes though, living in a society where people have a general level of respect for each other.

This might have something to do with it.

The amount of mental gymnastics I hear from people who illegally park or obstruct society for their own selfish reasons is beyond me. There are places to park, there are places to not park, they don't have an overlap.

I think you're being a bit pedantic about it because they used the term AI.

Not everything requires posterity. Things can go unindexed and the company and your teams software will be fine.

No not everyone likes that.

> to live and what kind of house to live in based on the assumption that WFH (specifically at Amazon) would persist.

That’s a silly assumption considering what has been communicated thus far.

It’s really not a differentiator. Is it? Issue is still an issue and must be addressed. OTA doesn’t change that.

The constant running also affords a more consistent temperature because air is continually moving. Decreases the temperature variance throughout the zone. I have a 3 zone heat pump, 2 single room zones upstairs and a main floor with a air handler. We LOVE the setup so far.

This comment added zero value to the conversation.

I was agreeing with you to be clear. Perhaps it was misconstrued.

In what way?

You’re 100% correct but it’s easy to dismiss because it devalues individual perception of how one thinks their company values them. Most of us aren’t special is the reality. Few are special and irreplaceable.

And I’m fine with that. Companies that support my privacy and respect boundaries can have all my money.

Sorry but I find “ that the U.S. is dangerously behind” laughable. A ballon around so your conclusion is to draw conclusions on the advances of nation states.

What is a software engineer?

And in many cases financially free to do so without blinking. It's a different calculus for sure.

I guess they decided they didn't need to possess as many? Even Google isn't hiring just because. They hire because someone leader wrote a doc and justified a line item to staff something and pay for the infra to make it go. What I said doesn't change at Google. Look at the areas of these big tech layoffs, they align with my premise.

Soul sucking is a bit extreme, this is at-will employment after all. 99.9% of readers are not working on sexy change the world problems. Call it soul sucking but I call that perspective jaded.

I've been lucky to work in consumer facing engineering that isn't soul sucking. In fact, it's market segments that I find interesting as a consumer too. I still optimize this way because I'm in a place in life where I want stability when my head hits then pillow in my home that I have a mortgage on. I have a family and stability yields solace and solace yields clarity of mind which allows me to be a better employee. It really is a virtuous cycle.

My take is in general you are right. No human is irreplaceable. However, what I really translate this to be is you should consider the business viability of the org/department/team you work in. The things that don't add value, the things that cost money, the long risky bets will be first to get scrutinized.

If you are making money and not a cost center for your company, you are likely safe during times of economic turmoil. Being on profitable and important to core business teams is great during any time. I remember a team I was on which was responsible for a large amount of yearly revenue. You can imagine we never got questioned about team lunches or miscellaneous snack and drink reimbursements even though there was a company policy to instill frugality. When times are good, times are good. When times are tough, you want to be a money maker.

Got it - so it's sort of the same thing as the prior sentence. I'm semi familiar with the setup having lived in Mission Bay for a few years. Thanks for clarifying!

Am I reading this right?

> Alternatively, 100% affordable to moderate income residents where rents don’t exceed 120% area median income.

If the median income is $50k, using arbitrary number for example. 120% is $60k, so rent can be $5000/monthly. Is that right?

Not only are there non-salaried workers on HN, that is also a narrow view of the world.