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It'll settle down probably. Just the hallmarks of a newly wealthy society. (within a generation)

Give in 2-3 generations the kids will be doing art history stuff.

Because the amount of ai slop code from peers and the amount of ai slop emails to read from management has exploded.

Yeah I'm with you.

As a resident who likes to breathe clean air and drink clean water, none of that seems all that bad.

I guess there should be an ability to do this farther from the population centers though.

I can't dispute anything the author says. In fact I'm pretty sure he's right in almost all his articles.

But man, big tech is a joyless place to work right now.

It's true, but do you really trust the AI generated + Nurse Review output more than Organic Nurse generated?

In my experience, management types use the fact that AI generated + Nurse Review is faster to push a higher quota of forms generated per hour.

Eventually, from fatigue or boredom, the human in the loop just ends up being a rubber stamper. Would you trust this with your own or your children's life?

The human in the loop becomes a lot less useful when it's pressured to process a certain quota against an AI that's basically stochastic "most probable next token", aka professional bullshitter, literally trained to generate plasuible outputs with no responsibility to accurate outputs.

I know some people like that: the insane nest egg and that security _is_ their quality of life and the blanket they sleep well under. Their current consumption doesn't matter too much to them.

But it used to.

In the post war boom it definitely used to produce enough value to support several people.

And we're far wealthier in aggregate now than before, it's just distributed badly now.

Maybe. But last I checked the trades pay horrible and destroy your body by 40.

Every story of the trades pay well is just "be a trades business owner" well okay, but basically every alternative "be a X business owner" pays better.

This right here.

When Silicon Valley was cheap enough to live in that people could casually start a company in their garage... Then people didn't have to relentlessly optimize for short term comp.

Today you have to work at FANG to afford a garage in the Bay area.

Google used to be so un-cheap they had a dedicated ergo lab room where you could try out different keyboards.

They eventually became so cheap they blanket paused refreshing developer laptops...

Exactly. When the average house in urban areas started being around $1M... There is no more truth seeking.

Lol that was my reaction too, this guy is an asshole. He should just leave.

Luxury has the same cost of land and utilities.

Costs like 15% more and sells for 30% more. Building economy is a losing proposition.

I read your original post and almost every reasonable person would have paused, but then have written it off as dark humor by someone they didn't know that well.

The only reason you might think there were "signs" you should have caught now is because of what happened but no one could have known in advance.

From a total Internet stranger, give yourself some grace. Or what I have also heard: Judge yourself the way you would judge a good friend in the same situation. We often judge ourselves super harshly!!

I mean... what do you think human therapists are doing. I'm sure they have empathy and do care for their patients... but it's definitely empathy-for-money too.

You can downvote it.

Many hackernews readers have pretty diverse interests though, and want to hear about both tech and general social issues.

If you don't mind me asking, how many are you starting with now?

Because three is a lot. And if you're starting from 0 or 1 today, I can't imagine you actually want six.

I see your point. But I think you may be taking it to extremes.

A parent can snuggle multiple kids at once, read to multiple kids at once, take multiple kids to the zoo at once, etc.

Moreover siblings have their own rich relationships.

Having closely spaced siblings is pretty normal.

Amen. If the net present value and risk of being a professor paid as well as dealing with corporate B.S. I know which I would do...

I was also surprised. I think he's off almost exactly a factor of 10.

"we need to add this one more feature in 2 weeks so I can get promoted" -everyone at the company

Loop this for 8 years on a single product.

Isn't the "miracle" just a persistent unexpectedly higher level of inflation, over a long period of time, doing a soft-default and screwing over long bongholders?

That seems like the most painless way out.

OP mildly exaggerated, but nothing he described is crazy for the expensive parts of California.

I also think that junior new engineers are less productive remote, because they can't absorb the context and experience of their more senior coworkers.

Probably the only group made more productive are senior independent engineers.

I think family mechanics and accountants do get asked for help. Plumbers maybe a little less.

I think there's an accurate perception that IT work is generally air-conditioned and doesn't involve physical danger or sewage, so it's not as big of a deal to ask for help.

But... They are. At least the newly arrived ones are.

The subject of the article killed two men, and is now living on social security and subsidized housing.

If I was family of the two killed men I would be furious.

When middle class people use a government service, the quality goes up.

If you look at COST it was pretty darn good to be a shareholder too.

Somehow they made that work out where all three of them won.