windward

That's optimistic in itself, because it implies that being corrected (assuming we are correct) will right his path to seeing the value in his effort.

A more concerning option is that he does see the value, but the temptation of the zero-effort-machine is too strong.

Learning to put in enough effort for engineering takes - took - years of education, where double digit percentages failed each year. Some of us barely made it through the filter. I have no confidence I would if I encountered it as a youth today.

It was a huge thing, and I lived through all of it, yet never ran into a problem where copy-and-pasting would have been the lowest resistance solution. I never even ran into a problem where asking the question and waiting for a response would have made more sense than asking internally or working through it myself. The most difficult problems are relatively conceptual, which SO didn't like anyway.

I never really got it. I think it depended bigly on which domain and stack you were in.

>Patience, attention to detail, staying on task.

These skills are all less valuable today, btw, along with roughly anything that would have allowed someone to thrive economically pre-2025 in spite of occasional accusations of high-functioning autism.

The issue is not that programming is getting automated. The issue is that the only skills that retain value are in low supply among programmers - and every other career you've considered retraining for.

Great time to be in sales.

I wasn't born on the path!

The strongest evidence for AI art being too uncanny is that people are still paying artists to draw cartoon porn.

I do feel that Codex and Claude are both bad at something I'm good at: writing documentation. But it doesn't matter, because no human reads it. I'm spending a lot of time rewriting its output just for it to be piped back in again.

And that's just sorting out my self-image. Convincing someone who controls the pursestrings that I'm adding value was hard already.

It's odd, the stereotype of software developers is a know-it-all attitude, but start talking about types and you get excuses that boil down to 'I'm incapable of learning to understand the thing you learned to understand'.

Do the reading b/c there's a machine that has done all the reading so it's hard to add value if you maintain the anti-intellectualism of 2010s software dev.

Football fans have shown they're quite eager to tell Infantino where to stick his revenue sharing.

Yes, we're discussing how the users change the way traffic flows.

>They work perfectly fine.

I don't want to celebrate UK roads too much. The majority of roundabout users in the UK are not indicating properly. Too many people are stopping at them when they have priority. Lanes are just a suggestion and using the correct lane is an invitation for someone to drive into the left of you.

In other areas: enough people don't know how to use a slip road that it becomes a problem to those who do. Likewise the flashing ambers of a pelican crossing. Lane discipline is much worse than on the continent, to the point you can see it creating traffic jams. Lots of people are driving big cars without the confidence needed to remain in their own lane.

There are millions of drivers who've never passed a theory test. We could do with more ruthlessness.

Smartphones are worse computing devices than laptops or desktops. Smartphones are also the most widely-used computing devices in the world, even by people sat at home with a better computing device on the other side of the room. History suggests worse just doesn't matter in the face of convenience.

Do you carry a laptop everywhere you go?

>in a tight pocket

Oh, well there's the problem. Apple isn't catering to millennial jeans fits any more. Only half-joking.

It's a notebook

>just have Claude vomit a novel into it

True, that's the other side of it: my daily work has lost the fun reward loop and I'm being alienated from my colleagues. But I still have colleagues!

While I'm still catastrophically worried about what AI means for my career, I've noticed that my current employer - very AI forward, and growing the team - is still facing an ever expanding backlog.

High productivity is generally good for the employee, unless you're productive enough you run out of work to do. So how much code is needed?

It's not default, you have to enter a password to enable it.

who knows? https://i.imgur.com/PwobLhW.png

(IDK if there's a more accessible alternative to imgur now)

> Proton Pass

>> Browser Extensions: Major Outage

A nice reminder to keep passwords offline.

I have a remote job. I get to have this one because I made contacts at a previous job. Good luck in the job market correction.

I blame them because they're the ones taking advantage

Maybe being freed from the slave mindset is the reason you haven't had the same. Maybe.

>you have to cart your stuff to and from the locker every day

Yeah, you might. I assume you're a principled person.

In my experience, the less principled simply leave their shit all over the place for us to deal with.

Pitching yourself as a machine that takes in requirements and spits out work is a daring proposition in today's technological environment.

I don't agree with history telling us that at all. HDMI, MP3, MPEG, .docx, DirectX, CUDA, I'm sure there are more. History tells us that money wins.

But I also think this is an example of a slight disingenuity in RISC-V being referred to as open-source. It's borrowing the clout of open-source software projects where the end user has the freedom to compile them at home. I can't fabricate a CPU at home, I'm still beholden to whatever patents the manufacturer chooses to license. SiFive have a >billion dollar valuation, for a business based on selling licences.

>there is no passport control

There's no anything. Getting to Wales is easier than getting to Devon for most of England. You can do it accidentally.

These are good questions to ask.

1) I rarely get any feedback, particularly not feedback as detailed as this, with a single reason for failure 2) Employers habitually bend the truth around interviews: interviewing for jobs that don't exist, that are already filled, reneging offers 3) Not being hired after an interview doesn't mean you failed it. They're more like dates than exams.

>breaks entire business models

So do car alarms.

I'm not convinced this is a business model I want to exist. We had an internet before it, and Google, and Facebook. I'm increasingly sad we can't return to it.

Well it's a problem that's existed since day one