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I'm not a competitive programmer and won't be one, but this book seems to be a very practical, hands-on intro into many useful algorithms. Really good!

LLMs are a game-changer. You work more for less money.

Calling up a bot farm owner pre-pitch is "partnership"

You build the system, the factory, that presumably is looking at your task tracker, writes and reviews design docs, reviews code, etc. And this system, in turn, writes software for you.

I don't know how that's supposed to work, but to me it's the most autistic replacement of the actual team that one can come up with.

It is revolutionary. Programmers are paid less to work more.

Marketing reached next level?

I wouldn't care to read manual for my microwave, as long as basic functions work. Similarly, people don't seem to bother to use their software to its full potential.

Computers have become appliances.

Importantly, blast radius is confirmed and systemic gaps safely sealed.

A verified honest take, not just an assumption.

Such a smoking gun that Anthropic made load bearing.

Thanks, bought the book. Sounds pretty interestng.

This is almost exactly what Jordan Rudess is doing now with some folks from MIT or Stanford right now. Google his interview with Rick Beato.

I recently found out that I'm the most miserable when I'm rushing.

If something happens, and I allow it to break the flow of things, I become stressed and worried and time flies. When I allowed myself to simply exist for a week, without a crazy planned-in-advance vacation, the week felt like a month. No joking.

Where this urge to always rush comes from is a good question. I imagine it's very much cultural, we're expected to rush and be busy.

Yes, please.

Fully agreed. I'm curious to learn though how your approach changed in particular.

> what's stopping all those people you fired from starting new law companies

This is beyond naive. We've got plenty of successful businesses in front of our eyes, what makes any of us work for them instead of starting competition? Maybe lack of appetite for risk, lack of means to take on some substantial amount of it, lack of perfect timing, bills, children and parents to support, accumulated momentum in another profession and no skills to run a business, no meaningful connections?

The list goes on and on and to think you could just start a business regardless of your circumstances, and even more so, try to make this hypothetical sound as an answer to the very real issue of increasing job insecurity is just pure malice.

And even more importantly, how do you make a living teaching?

When I was young, in my teens, I already knew a bit about programming but of course nothing about the industry.

These beautiful metaphors by Brooks, from books like inmates running the asylum, etc - they made me romanticize the industry I had no idea about.

Now, about 20 years later, I wonder to which extent they influenced me to take the path I've taken. Because when I began, it wasn't lucrative or cool in the slightest.

This made me laugh, than you!

I appreciate your situation and opinion but I don't see how this is the answer to my question about mindset changes.

Nice one. I spent about 15 minutes playing, thank you.

A deep and thoughtful piece, thanks for sharing.

I'm wondering at this point what are known methods of overcoming "mindset inequality". Any advice will be appreciated.

If you could only send a text message...

This is lovely.

Thank you for sharing! Saved to bookmarks to read on my free time. Hopefully I'll get some soon :)

Not only performance, I strongly suspect there were issues with implementation too as the apps would just freeze/die frequently.

You got the water cooling before it was cool, minus the thermal paste.

I remember I had a Cyrix 6x86 in one of my first computers that ran windows 95. It was terrible. When I tried to play games or run some apps with non-trivial performance requirements and, I suppose, that used floating point operations extensively, perhaps MMX or some other proprietary extensions, apps would just die. Often with the entire operating system.

> He is going to go through System Settings, panel by panel, and adjust everything he can adjust just to see how he likes it. He is going to make a folder called “Projects” with nothing in it. He is going to download Blender because someone on Reddit said it was free, and then stare at the interface for forty-five minutes.

Brilliant. Thank you for that.

https://gromov.com It's a custom build dynamic website, which is a rarity this days, meant to have a commenting system and other 'advanced' features. However, as time went by I realised you need A LOT of traffic for people to engage with your stuff on your own platform. Now, I suspect, it's mostly endlessly parsed by bots - and this, quite frankly, made me abandon the idea of posting my thoughts to a 'broad' internet.