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We have finite time, self-actualization through creation is very human. Too much passive consumption is sleepwalking through life.

However, creators often forget that mental exercise is like physical, you don't sprint 24/7 you have to pace intensity whether it's running or writing Clojure.

They need to maintain kayfabe, otherwise all the BAs, PMs, POs, EMs would become flight risks.

Taxpayers end up with bill either way, I think, either directly through UBI and welfare or indirectly through losses due to crime, policing costs.

Europe has a good approach by using subsidies as a more palatable UBI initiative to keep their startups afloat.

I'm of a similar mindset, just look how many software adjacent roles are basically UBI already.

With DOGE the US seems to moving backwards, cutting down on gov busywork for what self-defeating purpose? They just end up flooding the market, or worse, sabotaging productive teams with their meetings and ceremonies.

sounds like it would pair well with a suitably smart compiler

In the absence of UBI can you blame them? Not everybody can, or wants to, be productive.

Too much stakeholder alignment?

It's just Google (web search) v2, if you are able to input the right terms and interpret the results critically you'll be accelerated. If not, you're just another mark.

Shh, don't let the VCs know.

Problem is what kind of moat does that SaaS have? The flip side of 'we replaced our dev team with vibe coders look how fast we print shitware' is now shitware value falls close to 0, as anyone can make it.

Though you suggest he's non-technical... "writing down exactly what he wants" is just coding!

from vibe coding to vibe management

There would be if it was easy to recognize.

You generally can't see this due to all the middle men and bloat, and that no corp really wants to measure dev productivity against revenue like this as it'd raise a lot of uncomfortable questions by both devs and shareholders alike.

Been a minute since I touched audio code but isn't PCM quite basic? Really hard to beat $18 though! Even the 2hrs it'd take a decent SWE would be easily 30x that.

The avg. SWE is a toss up if they create more issues than they solve over time. Factor in on-boarding, bugs and taking time away from other expensive people becomes >$100/hr real quick.

Right so at those rates why don't more Canadians gamble on running their own shop? Not like a CAN company selling worldwide, paying 1/3 salaries, only makes 1/3 the revenue?

Unless corp taxes are 3x US?

They don't lack understanding: un unaccountable magic box that can be 'accidentally' tuned to favor current business goals is a manager's dream.

Wow, at that rate I'm surprised we don't see more Canadian startups. Solo SaaS could make 10x that, maybe they don't have many devs that actually ship value?

Abstraction is fine, it allows you to work faster, or easier. Reliance that becomes dependency is the problem - when abstraction supersedes fundamentals you're no longer able to reason about the leaks and they become blindspots.

Don't confuse low-level tedium with CS basics, if you're arguing that knowing how computers work is not relevant to working as a SWE then sure, but why would a company want a software dev that doesn't seem to know software? Usually your irreplaceable value as a developer is knowing and mitigating the leaks so they don't wind up threatening the business.

This is where the industry most suffers from not having a standardized-ish hierarchy, you're right that most shops don't need a trauma surgeon on-call for treating headaches but there's still many medical options before resorting to random grifter who simply "watched some Grey's Anatomy" as "medschool was a barrier for providing value to customers".

I like to play both sides: I solve the problem I create. :)

Why would making a $5 shirt be eaten away by power looms and haute couture not?

Don't be silly, if the entire US stock market really was wagered on this technology then you'd better start learning Mandarin.

Surely to avoid the org dysfunction that sunk Firefox the person 'creating' this fork would also be actively building it?

Which one?!

Speculation is that most of these EU funding efforts aren't for producing viable competitors but industry subsidry - jobs programs with a dash of embezzling.

Maybe someone from Europe could weigh in? I'm probably wrong, if the funding is transparent it should be easy to confirm or deny.

Well, it goes both ways: a fixed wage for complete IP ownership is great if your main dev skill is "bringing key stakeholders into conversations at the appropriate time".

Non-technical 'manager'

> skills needed to build a product along with customer obsession

So a disempowered founder-lite? What's their incentive?

Is the market really free enough for WFH vs RTO to be visible?

It's been a zombie for a while...

The highly profitable, self-inflicted problem of using 200 QPS Python frameworks everywhere.