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On YC company was offering an unpaid gig. (Although I imaging being open source that person would retain copyright?)

Yeah lots of startups YC or otherwise are playing global arbitrage. And now AI arbitrage. It is a race to own means of production!

Small enough to fail and jail.

No. I wasn't concerned about security but just churn. They keep changing things. They also don't fix stuff people care about alot.

I'd just use Koa and keep it simple.

Vibe coding framework of choice

Middleware skipping could expose all kinds of problems. A lot is done in middleware that the rest of the code can lay back and assume is dealt with.

Trying to get my head around this. It must mean 90% of what they were doing was writing code. Like not even thinking, architecture, gathering requirements, make sure you built the right thing etc. Just generating syntax.

Vibe gambling

"Bad" is doing s lot of work in your sentence. Do you mean slow? Or buggy? Or unmaintainable? Or unextendable? Uses patterns the tech lead hates? Hard to read? High cyclomatic complexity? Doesn't meet requirements? Security issues? Uses out of date libraries? Too much reliance on 3rd party code? Too much NIH? ...

I think "one shot ready for production code" is what AI cannot do yet. Which is why I am not worried for another 12 months at least :)

Open mind here. Spill more details please. We're the 9 good or was their dead weight. Could the 9 to 2 have been done without AI anyway (because less work to do).

This is what is really interesting. What will they do in 10 years. Will you need to learn mathematics to Phd level to produce code that an LLM cannot produce. Will we all become business analysts (Will AI do that too?). I don't think BA is a step down or up. It is probably interesting I did think of going down that path.

People laugh at coders like we are the only manual loom operators when everyone's job, even PotUS can replaced by the AI we can dream will exist.

My thoughts: buy SPX so you own a sliver of the new overlords.

That one is almost a meme on Linked In. For fun I hope it is a long troll (like a long con but for trolling)

And most of linked in (as the algo show me!) is basically this HN post in 100 words or the polar opposite saying how software engineers have had their chips.

Google has commodized its complement. (Ads is the product, business discovery is a complement)

WFH makes a laptop essential.

Been thinking about this idea too. The concept of data residency seems like a farce when eu-central is owned by AWS who answers to the US government.

An inverted solution has say a German person using a server of their choice (we get charged by Google Apple etc. for storage anyway) and you install apps to that location operated by a local company.

Been musing on this and how it could get off the ground.

Yeah why can't I get a trash can that lasts more than a year

Ah yes. That is brilliant until it isn't. For any reasonably complex business problem you will run into:

* Performance issues: table scans, high memory usage for joins, crazy sql execution plans, lock contention

* Security problems: especially around authorisation. Who can see what data. You'll start to need rules engines written as stored procedure or some shit.

* Business logic: can a SQL work out the country city, state and federal tax for the address? Maybe it can. Maybe that query will grind the system to a halt. Maybe you'll slap redis and 1000 sql replications. Maybe you are no longer just doing SQL!

Yeah fortunately for all of us shit is complicated and needs bespoke thinking to solve each problem.

There are problems where your ideas work well (typically consumer facing startup types who can rewrite when they raise a bit more money).

If that is how you do things I know the conversations you'll be having next year already. And that is from just ORM abuse not even front end SQL.

I tried to use Firebase in earnest which is the ultimate in that approach and it is awful. You hit a bunch of new and worse problems because you don't want anything to do with an EC2.

> People that are learning the current tech ecosystem are absolutely not learning web fundamentals. They are too abstracted away.

This might be the solution in many cases. For small projects vanilla js is quite pleasant to use.

For bigger projects React helps structure things for sure. I am for "vanilla react", or prop drilling, hooks and context. No state libraries or fancy shit.

It is real. It is interesting, because I don't think US wars or international interference over the years have caused this effect but now people are avoiding the US for pure "look out for number 1" reasons. I.e. it isn't safe enough for them to enter and it ain't worth the risk for some conference, holiday or work thing.

Well you have no rights when you expose a server to the internet. Other than copyright of course.

Robotics sounds doable:

Software Engineer->Low level software engineer->Embedded swe->robotics (doing a mechanical eng diploma in the evenings)

Probably drop pay at each stage tho!

Posted because upenn has a lot of cool computer science resources. Sad and short sighted that they are pulling funds.

Until you get stuck somewhere and you need a hotel or taxi. Unless they reimburse that?

Talking of "Jon" and "Skeet", there is a fairly well known programmer called Jon Skeet. If you are a C# developer good chance he has answered you stack overflow question!

I have rescued 2 stray (lost really) animals. A dog I took to the vet. And a bird I was about to take to the vet. Heard the person down the street calling for them. But yeah. Vets! Microchips! Unless you are scared of the animal then fair enough use an app.

Does rank and file "work" for regular employees who don't have company shares? I.e. does it help people facilitate a union?

You say unions are dead but this feels closest to a union (union platform) anyway. If the employees own the company that is probably a partnership.

See myself using this for sure!

Energy and health are personal. Age correlation with health is just statisical. I had a 75 year old come and drive miles and fix my air conditioning. Fit as a fiddle.

Do people who get together at 18 wait until 35 to have kids? I bet it is rare unless they are on some other mission in life.

Kids younger. You miss out on parties and travel but then your brain will get likely rewired to not care/regret that when you are older. Plus then at 40 you can start your startup. One tip is to make the 20 years of work lead to the unfair advantage for that startup.

Hard to pay for a family on a 20 yo salary for most though.

Lol coincidently had some publoc traded shares force sold last month. Didn't realize (they didn't send me an email). I have a weird ability to pick these kinda stocks! Unfortunately it hasn't been a profitable strategy.