el-dude-arino

You seem to respond to many of my posts, why are you so bitter and angry?

Not a complaint, genuinely asking, therefore does not break the rules.

Not a complaint, genuinely asking, therefore does not break the rules.

Are you actually hiring? I applied for one of these exact roles not long ago and interviewed, but received a generic rejection about how you found another, better, candidate. I use your product and really like it, seemed like we had a good vibe and my skillset exactly aligned with the JD.

I've asked others who've applied for these roles and the story seems the same. I'd hate to have my time, your time, or another candidate's time wasted.

Are you actually hiring? You've posted for these positions every single month for the past couple years, see:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27373603 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34612652 https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=mmyller20 https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=mmyller20&next=34983...

Your senior engineering position was posted six months ago:

https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3649931245

Yet your headcount growth is down 3% according to linkedin:

https://www.linkedin.com/company/koddi/

Only asking because I'm very interested but I'd hate to waste anyone's time.

Well I an tell you right now you don't need 4wd, it snows like a MF where I live and if you have FWD with proper snow tires (which you should regardless), you will drive circles around 4WD/AWD cars with just all season tires on in winter.

Just buy a mid-2010's honda civic or a toyota camry.

Yep, because that's all AI is; a parrot. For well-defined problems it works great... BECAUSE THEIR WELL DEFINED.

Generative AI is only as good as the dataset that you give it, so for problems that exist in a heavily contrived and parameterized space (like leetcode-style problems) it works really well. But give it a novel problem with intertwining libraries and external dependencies along with custom type and structure definitions, it's going to fall flat.

Humans do something AI can't, and that's draw from experience to apply a solution on a novel problem. This is why I'm not terribly worried about AI coming for engineer jobs anywhere in the near future. I use ChatGPT all the time to write me small functions, generate regular expressions, etc. Basically all the drudgery.

I'd argue we've hit peak-AI at this point because from this point on, all datasets are going to be colored by AI-generated results. Generative-AI is now on a trajectory were it'll simply regress to the mean of knowledge.

> unobjectionable

LOL, because it's totally not gross or a conflict of interest in any way. Keep licking those billionaire boots, I bet they taste like caviar.

It's not rumored.

He's diddling the CEO of his main investment; Michelle Ritter of Steel Perlot.

He's a fucking creep who got lucky and was in the right place at the right time, just like most tech oligarchs we all bow to, like Musk, Larry and Sergey, Zuckerberg, or Dorsey.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidjeans/2023/10/23/eric-schm...

Thanks, Jack Welch. May you burn in hell for making the 21st century worker-employer relationship so adversarial.

These questions don't get placed on their job ads by chance and they aren't done in a vacuum; there is some form of approval at the leadership level.

If they ask that question, then they make a judgement based on the answer. If you're a company making such a judgement on such a question for such a position, you're a ridiculous company.

I stopped dealing with anything to do with Canonical the moment I saw their job ads require you to put in your high school gpa. Yes, even if you're a senior+ engineer.

AA will do their own investigation but it's the FAA's investigation that actually matters.

Doubtful much will happen though. The FAA allowed Boeing to do the FAA inspections on the MAX planes they produced, and the FAA rubber stamped the certifications.

Fuck Jack Welch and fuck his devil spawn, the likes of Boeing CEO's Dave Calhoun and James McNerney, and sycophant Dennis Muilenburg.

> The barrier is inventing and organizing the logistics of delivering the most cutting edge technology

LOL, nothing Apple does is cutting edge. They took Linux and made it easy for corporate system admins. Touchscreens were invented back in the 60's. GUI's were created by Xerox.

Steve Jobs was a hack and a douche by all accounts, the reverence people have for him is laughable. But this is the behavior of the oligarchs and the monopolies they run; they have such centralized power that they're able to vacuum up all competitors, even potential or tangential ones.

The devil cult of Jack Welch rears it's ugly head again...

Rate cuts will still likely happen, just look at what's going on with the bond market; we're already in conditions similar to the 2010's. The US Gov can't afford it's current debt load at the current rates.

We're probably never going back to ~0% interest rates again but current inflation numbers show that the inflation we felt in 2021 and 2022 were transitory because of supply-chain shocks and corporate greed. Now we'll have to deal with the boomers retiring and moving into consumption-only mode instead of consuming AND producing, the former of which is inflationary.

Besides, corporate and white collar donations are Biden's bread and butter, and they're pricing in cuts of 75-150 bps over the next year.

TL;DR - Don't discount that we're on the up from a low in a slow-rolling business cycle.

Yeah because a janitor working at google is doing the exact same work as an engineer working at google.

C'mon Count Chocula, come back to reality.

They're not google employees in name only. They work on google equipment, have google badges, and go into google offices. If google doesn't like them, they're fired. Google controls every aspect of their work. These employees aren't allowed to seek other customers either.

This is a purely a scheme by google to get away from having to hire full time employees but abusing the contractor system that was meant for actual consulting, not employees-for-rent.

Just when you think there's no end to Musk's dip-shittery, he goes and dives head first into a pile of nonsense and butt-hurtedness.

99% of programmers, but especially the brilliant/well known ones, are insufferable egotists. Many cannot have a technical disagreement without despising the person they disagree with.

Professionalism and the tech industry are just starting to get acquainted.

Sundar is also a McKinsey dipshit.

If you worked at Xerox I'd be amazed if you weren't already interviewing around, they've been on life-support for a while.

Just goes to show what happens when MBAs run a product-centric company.

This isn't a job posting, it's an employee trying to farm referral bonuses.

To anyone considering this: just go on Blind or Fishbowl, where you can get a referral without having to deal with this kind of person.

Are you actually hiring? You've posted for these positions every single month for the past couple years, see:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27373603 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34612652 https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=mmyller20 https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=mmyller20&next=34983...

Your senior engineering position was posted six months ago:

https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3649931245

Yet your headcount growth is down 3% according to linkedin:

https://www.linkedin.com/company/koddi/

Only asking because I'm very interested but I'd hate to waste anyone's time.

Bingo. Cost-cutting only works in the short term, and by "working" I mean gaming the financial statements. Despite the oligarch's best efforts we still live in a fairly competitive market in therms of tech products. Competing means hiring people to make things.

I'm already seeing a significant uptick in demand for senior+ engineers. This is me talking to multiple companies and recruiters, headcounts are going up again and thankfully their for products that actually provide real value to customers. I haven't heard from a crypto/nft company (see: scam) in a looooong time.

Excessive executive compensation is unnecessary and steals value from shareholders and employees. Tech execs, even middle management, are wildly overcompensated for the value they bring compared to the engineers.

Precisely. Becoming the "go-to" person, at best, means that you're going to be too valuable to promote and you'll be exploited to the nth degree.

I'm glad you've found fulfilling places to work, but I think you might have a bit of survivorship-bias.

Enough to tell my boss to get f*cked