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GoldenMonkey

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GoldenMonkey··on Ask HN: The death of software development as a job?
Work for any enterprise software company. And you will know coding is the easiest part of shipping software. Organizing, working with other teams, understanding the domain, coordinating. All higher level and higher order tasks than coding.
GoldenMonkey··on Tell HN: H&R Block tax software installs a TLS backdoor
Aren't mac's more secure by default. Receive the warning using mac with h&r block 2025 installed.
GoldenMonkey··on Google co-founder reveals that "many" of the new hires do not have a degree
AI generated content?
GoldenMonkey··on De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025)
Why is the independence of the Federal Reserve sacrosanct? For one, they should have oversight and they should have accountability.

Not ever passing an audit of any kind. And the FED chairman spending $2.5B on renovations to an office complex. While misleading congress about the kinds of renovations.

There should be less 'independence', if it means zero accountability.

GoldenMonkey··on Ask HN: What's one small habit you started that surprisingly changed your life?
Pull-up bar and dumbbells in my bedroom. 10 minutes a day, every morning. Wall calendar, marking each day I do my exercises.

Stronger, leaner, fitter, healthier. Been doing this for years. It accumulates over time.

GoldenMonkey··on Ask HN: What do you wish existed? (October 2025)
a better dating app. a better job matching service.
GoldenMonkey··on Ask HN: ML Engineers not negatively impacted by AI?
Even ML engineer jobs are hard to come by. Not sure how many job postings are real.

In my current experience, in applying to 300 jobs, I am qualified for. Leads to exactly 1 interview.

Very tough, unusual IT market.

GoldenMonkey··on Ask HN: Are startups still using Ruby on Rails to start new products/projects?
Never seen ruby/rails at any company or startup. react seems to be the standard.
GoldenMonkey··on Is just a tough market or am I unhireable now?
It is a very tough job market. I have been looking for 11 months myself with zero interviews. And 500+ applications to jobs I am qualified for.

The summary of your resume is very dense. Opening it felt like a wall of text, I wanted to immediately close.

Have chatgpt rewrite it.

Because of ATS resume systems, your resume may be getting screened out. After chatgpt has rewritten it.

Throw it into an ATS resume checker like https://www.jobscan.co to see how it is performing for ATS filters.

I particularly like https://simplify.jobs that can tailor your resume and autofill for applications. Will save a lot of time if you do not have this already.

Best of luck. It is extremely tough and unusual. Apply for jobs in your immediate city or a place you could relocate to, as a priority... as the remote ones are extremely competitive.

GoldenMonkey··on Microsoft has urged its employees on H-1B and H-4 visas to return immediately
We all know this was a way for tech companies to keep wages down and replace local labor with cheaper labor.

Now instead of 500 applications for 1 interview. Maybe, jobs vs labor will return to a normal balance.

GoldenMonkey··on How to motivate yourself to do a thing you don't want to do
Avoid thinking of the pain of the task at hand. Imagine and focus on the reward of these tasks.

Lifting weights... imagine the stronger person you will become. Studying for that exam.. picture the career you aspire to. Avoiding that donut... imagine the healthier you.

Habit stacking helps to remind one of the task to do. To avoid the struggle of doing them, picture the desired outcome.

GoldenMonkey··on Is 42 too old
It is absolutely a brutal job market for all software developers. Never seen anything like the current market. Seems like there is an oversupply of H1B's and recent graduates.

If Stanford Computer Science graduates aren't landing jobs.

And even 'AI Engineer' roles are hard to come by. I'd be wary.

GoldenMonkey··on Ask HN: Should we stop worrying that AI will replace developer jobs?
The demand will be for developers to be phenomenal debuggers of massive ai code bases.

Time to retire. Unless one enjoys debugging instead of coding.

GoldenMonkey··on Ask HN: Recently laid off developer looking for solo product ideas
this site has many Micro SAAS ideas... could find some inspiration...

https://microsaashq.com

GoldenMonkey··on Ask HN: What are your thoughts on the impact of AI on programming careers?
No kidding. There's a lot more to software development than mindless coding.
GoldenMonkey··on Ask HN: What are your thoughts on the impact of AI on programming careers?
If you want to stay as a software developer. Lean into AI. As per bill gates. Lean into AI Engineering. Develop the models. This will be an in demand skill for 100 years.

Get that AI Engineering master's degree. Learn the math, the statistics, the models.

https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/bill-gates-s...

GoldenMonkey··on Ask HN: Do you have a side project making more than $100 monthly?
crypto trading bot.
GoldenMonkey··on U.S. nuclear base hidden under Greenland's ice for decades
A Different take. Greenland is strategic to the security of North America. And had been severely neglected by Denmark. Just like all Nato countries, not contributing financially to security as required.

This saber rattling had the desired effect and result. More military investment in Greenland. But, using other ppl's money... Denmark.

And in Canada's case with becoming a 51'st state... they too are now committed to meeting NATO $ obligations.

GoldenMonkey··on Ask HN: I don't want to work in software anymore. Where do I go?
Read the book - what color is your parachute.

It will help you figure out the type of career that will work for you.

In particular, knowing the ‘language’ that you speak… will help you find the right career path.

A language being… do you enjoy working with numbers, with people, outdoors… etc…

GoldenMonkey··on Ask HN: Ways from the EU to the USA
Really? Absolutely not the case. But, keep your head in the sand and read the slanted media.
GoldenMonkey··on Court filing: DOGE aide broke Treasury policy by emailing unencrypted database
what hyperbole. it’s just names and a dollar amount.
GoldenMonkey··on Evidence that Neanderthal and Homo sapiens engaged in cultural exchange
Okay, they didn’t bother to completely sequence neanderthal dna…

And now we make the claim that their Y chromosone is non existent in humans.

Let’s finish the sequencing before being so definitively factual about it.

GoldenMonkey··on China and US rapidly developing quantum computers, yet Bitcoin is still $90k
We are nowhere near quantum breaking cryptography or anything related to crypto.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/08/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-is-d...

And google's recent hyped break thru of 100 qubits. Needs to scale to 1m qubits to do this.

GoldenMonkey··on Argentina president faces impeachment calls over crypto crash
sure it does. more likely sophisticated investors bought in. who should be aware of the inherent risks of any meme coin.
GoldenMonkey··on Ask HN: Do you think AI is being hyped by "Surprisers"?
Definitely, overhyped.

It is being sold as being able to replace 5% of the economy… today.

Anyone working in data science and ai development. Already know ai has already started to reach its limits…

nm, replacing developers or AGI.

GoldenMonkey··on $400M armored Tesla gov contract
man, that's quite a jump to conclusions. It is a hypothetical forecast.
GoldenMonkey··on How to prepare to flee your country?
If you have a second passport. You will be able to leave anytime you want.

If things did get locked down. Don’t count on being allowed to leave. Or of other countries accepting US citizens.

GoldenMonkey··on Ask HN: Are AI dev tools lowering the barrier to entry for creating software?
Increasing the bar, if anything. When your thinking is relegated to ai. You’ll lean too hard on it… as a crutch.
GoldenMonkey··on Ask HN: Is there a point in me getting a CS degree anymore?
Consider pivoting to the physical engineering disciplines. For one, there is much less competition. For two, AI will not replace physical engineering anytime soon.

You can be in the field and get your hands dirty with engineering.

GoldenMonkey··on Ask HN: So Where's the Moat for AI?
It was done on NVIDIA chips.

And most likely they ran experiments and competing models on their other clusters. Using existing synthetic data.

Before running this one… and highlighting their ‘$5M’ cost.

Smoke and mirrors… all smoke and mirrors.

https://open.substack.com/pub/robotic/p/deepseek-v3-and-the-...

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