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I have some "internal" web apps that I use for myself, and while I do use Remix which is a framework that allows me to use React, I just use SSR and HTML default form controls as interpreted by the browsers, minimal client side processing and almost no styling. I love it so much compared to the "modern" cruft. It's responsive by default because I don't really style it. It has a high signal to noise ratio.

I wouldn't change it for the world, but I've been told multiple times I'm very much in the minority.

I use it for some reports every month and Claude is so much better than OpenAI's frontier models it's not even funny.

I can upload CSV, JSON, PDF, any type of text file...

Last I applied to a job posted on Who's Hiring, they had me fill a self recorded video interview on some platform. And do some coding exercise with screen sharing. Then send it to them. I've never gotten any sort of reply back, positive or negative. Felt like a clown. Won't be using that again.

I built a little news summarizer for myself [0].

It takes trending news from whatever country (currently Romania + Denmark due to personal reasons) and gives me a summary. It's based on what people actually search for. It works with all countries, but I unceremoniously commented out all of them except those two because of rate limits. Currently spending $0 on it.

It also posts a summary of the summaries on my Matrix instance every evening at 22:00 local time.

[0] https://www.cafelutza.ro

Disclaimer: nothing substantial, just a bit of trauma dump

I've been a developer for more than a decade. Body-shops. Founding engineer. Chief Technology Officer. After every job in my life I took 6 - 12 months off.

Usually my desire for programming comes back somewhere around the 5th month mark. I'm in such a 'holiday' now, and just passed the 12 month mark. I don't feel that desire coming back anymore.

I've been blessed to have a friend that had a gig where I can do some ETL and cover my monthly expenses, but whenever I start looking for new jobs, reading the ads, all those keywords, all those bullshit descriptions of what they expect, I'm starting to develop a physical repulsion.

I've done a couple of interviews, and the HR discussions and then the technical interviews have left me with a bitter taste in my mouth. I'm afraid I'll hiss in the next zoom call. And it's not even for not getting accepted, as I got an offer from all the talks. But the whole industry gives me a bad taste right now. Everything just feels futile and fluffed up. My last interview was for a hair & beauty appointment app start-up where they acted like they cure cancer.

I'd like to be my old self, but I'm afraid I might not get that part back. I took a look at 'regular' jobs and the idea of being a truck driver lit up something in me that programming hasn't in a very long time. Even being a shop clerk makes me dream more than wrangling code.

I realize this is childish, and that the grass is always greener on the other side. I know that there are challenges in every profession and that I have a comfortable home office and get paid a shit ton of money for what I do and this is better than 99% of the planet.

I just hope to be able to get back on track mentally and not feel like this.

I'm not talking about MEPs. The commissioner is not a country representative, I'm talking about the head of the European Commission, miss Ursula von der Leyen as it currently stands.

There is no rule preventing it from being open, there is also no rule forcing it to being open.

Yes, in that we find out what we voted for after the vote instead of before.

A big difference is that in my neck of the woods, each party or coalition needs to come up with a governing document where they sort of tell you what their priorities are for the next 5 years.

In the EU we find about it after we vote, after they discuss in secrecy.

> But calling the EU not being democratic is going too far

I'm an EU citizen. I have minimal saying in who our commissioner is and what members of the cabinet get chosen.

I have a vote which I give to whatever party. After that, the vote for commissioner is secret; I have no idea who voted for what. After that, the negociations for the cabinet are secret; I have no idea what the criteria are and what the plans are.

I'm not putting us in the bucket of non-democracy just yet but I don't feel it's that far.

I grew up in a rather medium sized town in Eastern Europe.

Since I was maybe 5 or 6, my daily scheduled involved waking up, going outside with a gang of people of various ages (honestly it was all the way to college level at some points, they were the actual adults in the "room") and just having fun the entire day.

Around mid-day, if we were near our communist blocks you might hear our parents shout from the windows that it's time to eat, we'd sprint up and eat real fast and then go back down to continue mucking about.

We explored old forts, jumped with our bikes in the river, played hide & seek, climbed all sorts of buildings and trees etc. We sometimes hurt ourselves but were back on the street in record time.

The article reminded me of this, and I think it was an awesome way to grow up. And to link it back to the article. I don't get the diverse conclusion. I don't resonate with it at all. We were all relatively poor, of the same race and had very similar upbringings and possible futures. We were similar in more ways than different, and that was great.

> What more to consider?

Potentially sharing company IP with a 3rd party?

You answer this to me, but then you also answer 'correct' to the post I am replying to that mentions outsourcing, which is a totally different beast than Indian immigrants.

This discussion is also away from my initial intent which was to find out any sort of source, whether it be a press release, a research paper, anything related to your claim of frontenders and testers being replaced.

I would still appreciate such an answer. Though I expect I'll be disappointed.

Then I find this to be a totally unnecessary addition to a claim that they've replaced frontenders and testers with LLM. Of course no one is safe if they've actually achieved that (with no proof given) so obviously Indian programmers are not safe. Neither are east european ones, Indonesian ones, or American ones for that matter. For the (unsubstantiated) claim that actual humans have been replaced.

It's like Tesla creating a full self driving car (level 5) and ending the promotional video with "Not even rickshaw drivers are safe". Just fluff.

I honestly don't understand what he meant with the Indians part.

> I'm sorry I can't as I've signed an NDA

Surely the company you worked for can't be the only one replacing people with these tools. What about the companies that actually have thousands of devs on their payroll?

> What you describe are the previous generation of AI tools which were using you as training

Do these new generation AI tools have names, mentions, parent companies? Or is everything in this shadow realm covered by NDA and I, as a mere mortal, cannot access?

> Not even Indians are safe.

What does this even mean?

> I'm already seeing lot of developer jobs especially front-end, testing roles being replaced entirely.

Can you give me some public examples if it's so prevalent? I play around with the AI Dev tools and I can't see them being a feasible replacement for a human yet.

I also have friends that are copywriters, illustrators, photographers and they're pretty much the same as they always have been with another tool under their belt. So if you could also substantiate this claim I'd be curious.

I'm in Europe and have access to it.

> Due to contractual obligations, we are only accepting candidates who are located in and authorized to work in the United States, have lived in the United States for at least three of the last five years, [...]

Eh, one alternative as in my shithole in Eastern Europe is that they take 25% out of every pay you get throughout your life and when you do retire, you get some shit money for the 5 years of life expectancy you have left.

I just had this experience a week ago. I've worked with C# commercially but for the past 4 - 5 years I've been working with TypeScript mostly.

There was a fun HR girl that sent me a message how she found my profile compelling and we should schedule an interview. I said why not. After 45 minutes of asking me all sorts of questions, she asks if I have experience with .NET 5.

I went on to tell her that for the past years I haven't worked with .NET (though this was obvious from my CV) but have worked across multiple stacks, heavy TypeScript which shares a type system and the same creator bla bla. Then she asks but have you worked with .NET 5? I told her I worked with .NET Core for personal projects, but when I was working in .NET there was no .NET 5. And she stopped it there. "I'm sorry but I don't want to waste your time, they are looking for someone with .NET 5 experience."

Honestly, it's so stupid. I have more than a decade of experience working with software, been founding engineer, CTO, not shabby at DS&A. I can't imagine what kind of company would let their talent pool be so limited by such a factor. Unless you're doing some heavy .NET voodoo, but this wasn't the case.

I hope you've brushed up on year 3 curriculum before going to fix that garage door motor so you can answer some random medium / hard questions from Finite Element Analysis in Solid Mechanics or Vehicle Powertrain, Noise and Vibration.

You go study Computer Engineering and then to get hired for some CRUD work on a legacy system you have to solve a LeetCode Medium and a Hard.

I've had a rough transition from Remix 1 to Remix 2 for a couple of web apps I've worked on, but overall I still feel like the Remix model just works better. That being said, I'm probably not the best person to make a recommendation in this sense as I'm looking to go back to a sane job working with .NET MVC or PHP Laravel and just a bit of dynamic frontend sprinkled on top.

I used Next.JS awhile ago and it was great. Then I switched to Remix and it was great. Then I went back to Next.JS and I couldn't understand where things went wrong. From the routing model to the deployment model, it all felt so broken that I couldn't convince myself to continue using it.

> Flight data reveals that on December 4 last year, flight FR1269 dropped more than 2,000ft in a mere 17 seconds.

It's data from last year.

Well, I feel like Nextercould™ is the key to a healthier market and stopping the unfair bundling of Nextcloud with major OS releases.

What about my startup nextercloud? Why am I being discriminated against!?

I was involved in the building of the 911 system for my country. When doing that, we had to design it with this in mind.

If the system ever fell down, the operators had standard templated papers they would fill, and once the system would be back up they would add the case data back in.

I voted unsure. If I hadn't had this option, I would have voted overhyped.

Last year I had a subscription for ChatGPT, I had two homegrown apps running on OpenAI API (which have since moved to Groq with LLama), I had Copilot on VSCode, I had Midjourney, I was playing around locally with LMStudio and Stable Diffusion... and I'm pretty sure I'm forgetting some things.

Now I have nothing left. I use ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini (the free versions) from time to time, but it's a hit or miss and I'm extremely skeptical of GPT generated content which has a smell to it. The only people I know that use this constantly and unapologetically are the ex-blockchain grifters and junior (or wannabe) devs that think generating a small encapsulated function for a well known problem domain is a step away from the AI replacing humans.

So yeah, I'm unsure, but leaning towards overhype based on personal experience. We'll see, I'm too dumb to ride this wave I guess.

I'm in Eastern Europe; I've only seen an "American-style" SUV once I think two decades ago. I still can't get that image out of my mind. It was like a tank in front of my car. I couldn't understand how it fits our streets, how it parks, I couldn't see around it. Just... wow, honestly. I have no idea what car it was, but it was like a huge pick-up.