For the most part those are people who were not previously able to create because of skill atrophy or lack of programming aptitude. From their point of view being able to command (for now) a more capable entity to do what they (think) they want is an improvement.
a) I cannot effectively review more than 2000 lines of code a day. The LLMs can produce much more than that.
b) Even if I accepted my reading throughput limitations as the cost of being in the loop, reading is not enough to keep cognitive debt in check: my skills will atrophy if I do not participate in the writing ("What I cannot create I cannot understand").
So, to me, it seems like we, humans, either have to come up with higher (and deterministic) abstractions than code to communicate with LLMs or resign ourselves to letting the LLM guess what we want from English and then banging on the output to see if it sort of works. This later state of affairs seems to be what the current trend is and I find that absolutely revolting.
I do not see it that way. I was born in Europe and immigrated to the US. In my mind the differences is that the US attracts more ambitious and talented people than Europe.
This is not right in finance at least. Messages updates are typically incremental just like in TCP. The reliability problem is dealt with with careful network stack tuning, core affinity and out of band recovery.
The videos you see are curated to showcase police brutality. In a country with 300 million people and as many guns, its not hard to come up with a video a day depicting things going wrong. That is not the norm though. No one is going to post videos of polite, professional interactions, even though those are, obviously, the vast majority of cases.
I have a 13 year old who just got a phone. I do not think things are as hopeless as you seem to believe. My daughter mocks social media (including my own use of it) and, so far, wants no part of it. That is, I think, largely because her mother and I have been educating her since she could use a computer on how stupid and vapid social media is. As far as I know, none of her friends has any social media accounts either, I believe for similar reasons.
People who hate Elon musk, which includes almost all of media, have no qualms about lying about Tesla in order to hurt it/him. In fact they might think is the right thing to do, for the sake of, well whatever.
If you are interested in the ground truth, check the videos by owners, talk to people who use FSD and best of all see if you can rent and drive a Tesla yourself.
Its sad to say, but even in tech we swim in an ocean of ideologically driven BS and not all of us have realized it yet.
That is exactly right. In terms of knowledge acquisition the disruption has occurred. Any motivated young person can get a world class education free of charge, without ever stepping into an ivy. But it turns out the main purpose of college is to sort people not educate them and we are only now realizing that.
What would you replace leetcode with? For all its faults, and I agree there are many, leetcode is at least more or less objective and (for employers) very cheap.
With eglot and lsp-mode emacs, for me, has feature parity with vscode for c++ local development. Unfortunately for remote work tramp is still a nightmare and vscode far ahead.
The problem with this idea has been the same for 40 years: unlike in other fields of engineering in Software there is no bedrock of empirical science from which we can derive objective, reasonable standards. It is all opinion in CS and no doubt the most obnoxious, useless methodologists would be the ones with the strongest opinions about how others should build things.
Man, I have seen this everywhere, there is so much low hanging fruit for organizations that take developer productivity seriously. It is insane the amount of friction (leading to burnout, disengagement, and ultimately turnover) that developers deal with, every day, just because no one in the organization can see past their quarterly OKRs and fix basic things.
Of all the arguments against RTO the ones the signatories chose were racism, agism and sexism. Because everything, absolutely everything one does not like must somehow be linked back to white maleness. God, this stuff parodies itself.
This is obvious nonsense to anyone that breeds, owns or even regularly interacts with dogs. But gas lighting has always been a preferred tactic of those proselytizing "the message".
Are you jealous? What is wrong with being 25 year old and figuring out how to lead the company you interned at to unlock 1 billion in revenue? Seems like a pretty good start to me.
Do something physically hard, hard enough for you to slightly fear it. Martial arts, in particular BJJ would be a great option. You need to let your body command your attention, urgently and forcibly, so you get out of your own head and can appreciate comfort and safety again.
I think this depends on the scale of the problem. For small, algorithmic, problems, the kind you would see in a coding interview I find it far more efficient to solve on paper, or on your head, before getting bogged down in code. The difficulty in these types of problems is not understanding the issue but coming up with a solution. For much larger problems, just getting you head around the problem is very challenging and you need some scaffolding, in the form of half-backed, but still precisely described solutions, simply to provide ballast to your thought process.
Start Wars, at least episode III, meaning the first one, is clearly structured around the hero's journey, a story archetype that has been around since time immemorial, in every culture on earth. A story that old and enduring must resonate deeply with something deep and true about the human condition and a talented director cannot help but be successful by retelling it skillfully. Many modern movies eschew any such ballast . Instead the weapons of choice are technical prowess, amygdala hacking and the parroting of the ideological fad of the day. Needless to say nothing inspiring comes out of these efforts and in a generation no one will watch these things.
Solidarity to whom? A group of people that have the same super valuable skills as me? Why do they deserve any of my solidarity any more than anyone else? As to your point, I agree, it is all about degrees, and in my mind the degree to which we, in tech, need unions is 0. I don't buy, at all, the argument that if we should get unionized, with all the negative that implies, just in case we cannot do it when it is needed. Power moves slowly, compared to crime or natural disasters, and we will have plenty of time to react in the unlikely event unions in tech will ever benefit anyone beyond the union leaders.
What if you do not want a future where you have to pay union dues and give up individual agency in your relationship with your employer? Unions might be a necessary evil to rectify massive power imbalances but that is hardly the case in tech, so all we are left with is the evil part.