What would be better advice for a 17 year old?
Or more reasonably, the same old thing : use Linux, hack a little, why not learn programming basics. But learn to own your technology, fight against centralization of technology. The same old RMS story.
IDK where the tech industry is going, if there will be jobs anymore or not, but what I'm sure (and what have been the case for the last 10-15 years anyway) is that for most tech jobs, having good technical knowledge beyond the basics is pretty useless and will probably not be recognized.
If you can, stay a computer geek if that's your thing, but don't make it your career choice, the Eldorado is behind us.
> why not learn programming basics
Do you think implementing an LLM from scratch would not require programming!?
A generic project based goal like this is the best approach to self learning, because you fight your way to it, picking up what you need to know on the way. And, once it's all working, and you get your first meaningful sign of success (in this case, some tokens out), after your long path, you fucking celebrate!
I really hope we get another hiring boom like in 2020 when I decided to study CS. Otherwise my career will be very rough. I love it and can't imagine doing anything else.
who would have guessed when first world were enjoying their heyday as they were colonizing the world, and teaching everyone and their mother to learn English.
Kinda sad now you have to compete with serfs from thirls world. chu chu chu. so cute.
shouldn’t have robbed others then. a richer world for you comes at poorer world for someone. we are playing infinite game in finite world.
Young people are not responsible for the crimes of their ancestors centuries ago.
The reason remote worker can out compete you is because of this currency arbitrage you designed. Your pennies goes a long way in this so called third world. Your one day dinner at nice place is a months salary for family of 4.
Seriously, if you can’t compete globally, then you don’t deserve your privilege of being born in rich world.
Stop labelling other humans as serf when your entire wealth was built on shaky foundations.
You == not you the person, but the government and laws.
The fix would be obviously to control and limit foreign workers by regulating companies.
You should really read up on disruptive innovation. Many of those who you call "serfs" who'll "take 1/3rd of my pay" will tomorrow establish themselves, justify their presence, and move up the wage/income scale, while you'll be left complaining.
I am from and live in a third-world country and have spent some time in a first-world one. I've seen the ETH Zurich tag open doors that I didn't even know existed. If you aren't leveraging your passport, your education and your network to reach a place where you don't need to worry about "serfs", then you're doing something seriously wrong. What you have, compared to the competition you denigrate, is invaluable, making best use of it is your job.
Bad advice. You’re going to need family connections and loyal people you can bet your life on to survive if the rest of what you’re saying is remotely true.
We never imagined that we'd live to see Snow Crash depict a utopia by comparison to what we got.
What? You want me to tell kids not to be ambitious?