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Don't forget buying heroin from a dodgy .onion link!

Great show!

I sent out roughly 1,000 job apps last year and I had maybe a dozen interviews. Expecting worse hit rates this year. For reference, I'm a mid level web dev with 4 y.o.e. I have lots of friends with similar resumes (or better in some cases) who can't get a call back to save their lives. So no, you're definitely not alone. Unless you have a best friend somewhere, or already have a senior title with more than 7 y.o.e., the door seems to be shut.

But hey, keep on paddling! We'll get there.

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I probably need to throw some polish on it but I'm not a good UI designer and don't care for visual fluff

I haven't used them because I'm a big learn-by-doing guy that is constantly looking to expand or strengthen my skillset. Using a background coding agent takes all of the tinkering and debugging out of it, which is great if I just want results quickly, but completely counterintuitive if my goal is to become a better developer/engineer/architect/whatever.

True but I think if Pie In The Sky marketing leads to a catastrophic market crash and an economic depression, Sam Altman does deserve to be held accountable in some respect

From what I've seen it's easier with vibe coding / LLM tools to get a prototype built, but it's more difficult to initially flesh that prototype out and begin proper product development. Of course the business doesn't know this, or care, so I think the impact it has on the business overall is fairly negative.

If you make $10k/yr you could hire a contractor to refactor it for a few grand, maybe more. It'd be worth it not to shut it down wholesale.

Also I see some people are throwing their hats in the ring in the comments below, I'd be willing to take a look. My email is on my profile.

I've been wondering for a while if Sam is going to become an Elizabeth Holmes style figure with all of his talk about "a magic intelligence in the sky" and that in 5 years AI will replace 95% of marketing work. It seems like he's set up impossible promises, it'll be interesting to see what comes from their non-delivery.

I wonder how much "OnlyFans models applying for O-1 visas" is just sex trafficking with a thin veneer

Happy New Year from Indiana!

If you're using your YouTube and TikTok addictions to build things that other people can use, go nuts

My friend uses GarageBand to record her podcasts and says it sucks, I'm trying to build an app that'll make it easier for her (and other non-technical people) to record podcasts. Aiming to make it super simple, fun to use, not serious as a DAW but just enough to hit the ground running.

I like programming as a craft, but the kinds of coding I do for fun and the kinds of coding I do for profit look very, very different. So, for my work programming I use AI a lot more than I do in my own time.

After all, my work (for the moment) is just about pushing features to keep the PMs happy ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I thought HN traffic got blocked on my work's network for a second, phew! My lunch breaks would've gotten a lot more dull.

I haven't been around for much (27 y.o. with 4 y.o.e.) but I've applied for probably 500 jobs in the past 6 months, and had maybe 4 interviews out of it. It's tough out here.

Did she ram her car through the front door?

Took the words right out of my mouth, couldn't agree more

I think beyond a certain level surplus IQ begins to cause problems. While still useful, the amount of self-sabotage and thought spirals the brain can generate with the extra power can cause neuroses and unhappiness on a larger scale than those less intelligent are capable of. Combine it with higher societal expectations and it's no great mystery to me why smarter people seem unhappier.

Just my thoughts anyways. I'm a dev, not a psychologist.

That's the spirit!

I have to assume rather than solving that problem the car will park on the curb and people will be expected to walk down and get it

Saw a lot of buzz about this on Twitter, looks fun! I'm hoping there's some good mod support so I can add in my hometown.

Why hire an American who will ask for benefits, significant time off, work/life balance, etc. when you can hire an H-1B that you can treat like an indentured servant?

Very much agree on your last point.

I think finding out whether or not AI is actually boosting productivity is a problem of measuring productivity period, which at the very least my current company is pretty bad at. For a developer, is their productivity their lines of code produced, hours worked, project tasks completed per unit of time, agile points completed per unit of time, PRs reviewed, PRs submitted? In more human metrics, is it what their coworkers say about them, what leadership says about them, what customers say about them, testers, QA? The amount of bugs they fix, the amount of bugs they don't ship?

Sorry for the ramble, but apply this productivity measurement conundrum to entire corporations and it's no wonder that no productivity boost is being recorded. I'd be surprised if semi-accurate productivity measurements were taken in the first place.

I think a lot of the reasons for this is because AI helps provide a productivity boost to non-profitable sectors of most businesses, i.e. software development, finance, HR, etc. Since these departments do not directly drive profits, there's no visible bottom line to make meaningful observations on.

I do software for a retail company now and we've been having a similar debate: AI helps me and other departments do work more efficiently, but me getting a feature out the door faster is better for the business but doesn't get more products off the shelves. So, to the shareholders and the C-suite, is AI doing anything for the company?

Once the gold standard was ended and our fiat currency could be printed and given directly to the ruling class, it was effectively curtains for everyone else.

Doesn't change the fact that H1-Bers have turned the US IT job market harmfully hyper-competitive for US citizens.

So now it's only 52 million? Thank goodness, problem solved!