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Timothy Cain talks about game developers here, but it is fascinating to me how well this resonates with enterprise software engineering.

They talked about this article on the Blocked and Reported podcast (13th on the list). They said the numbers in this article are inflated.

Great copypasta, you almost got me.

> If humans stop producing new content and rely solely on AI, online content across the world may run the risk of becoming repetitive and stagnant.

Yeah, because the Netflix catalog, for example, is not repetitive and stagnant.

These current advances will enable anybody with a unique idea to produce content. We are right before an immense explosion of human creativity.

> Every time the budget ends up being disappointing and about half my current income.

Protip: on the very first call, say “My current salary is XY. A competing offer is in your budget?”

Protip2: XY doesn’t have to be your actual salary, use a number that is your desired floor to start the negotiation from.

When AR/VR finally happens, UI developers will have to deal with complexity from a completely different paradigm. For me, React's biggest strength has always been its ability to organize complexity into a manageable order. Combine this with the large pool of developers and extensive ecosystem, I think React will be the go-to tool for AR/VR apps. For this reason, I'm super hyped for R3F.

> find a position that seems to involve a TON of manual work - automate all of it - and DO NOT TELL anyone

This reminds me the article "Now That's What I Call a Hacker" [1], where a guy left behind his automation scripts when switched companies, which revealed some extreme scripts, like:

> hangover.sh - another cron-job that is set to specific dates. Sends automated emails like "not feeling well/gonna work from home" etc. Adds a random "reason" from another predefined array of strings. Fires if there are no interactive sessions on the server at 8:45am.

I'm putting this article and what you just said together. Now I think it's reasonable to believe there are a lot of IT professionals doing this, they are just hidden, because there is no reason to share this kind of works experience, as it makes sense in the competitive side of the industry.

[1] https://www.jitbit.com/alexblog/249-now-thats-what-i-call-a-...

> In fact, this is merely an extension of a ploy used by children on a playground: "Oh yeah? I could have done that if I wanted to."

Or by adult professionals on Hacker News.

> The vaccine (...) uses messenger RNA, or mRNA, to carry instructions into the human body for making proteins that prime it to attack a specific virus.

I love how this technology turns a medical challenges into a software problem. Being able to code medicine will open up an affordable way to personalized drugs, instead of the current day "one size fits all" solutions. What a time to be alive!

> my VSCode autoformats the classes to break lines just fine.

My only pain point with Tailwind was the order of classes. It helps with readability if the classes are always in the same order. I just discovered that eslint-plugin-tailwind [0] is solving this exactly. Configuring VSCode to run code formatter and perform ESLint fixes [1] is just an incredible DX.

[0] https://github.com/Idered/eslint-plugin-tailwind

[1] settings.json: "editor.formatOnSave": true, "editor.codeActionsOnSave": { "source.fixAll.eslint": true }

If you want an extensive answer, I recommend the neural network playlist on 3Blue1Brown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aircAruvnKk&list=PLZHQObOWTQ...

For a quick answer, watch this segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHZwWFHWa-w&feature=youtu.be...

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