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For the overall series, the central influences are the economic calculation debate associated with Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek; Fred Brooks’ distinction between essential and accidental complexity in software engineering; Amartya Sen’s capability approach; Elinor Ostrom’s work on polycentric governance; Karl Polanyi’s account of markets embedded in social life; Manfred Max-Neef’s work on human needs; and contemporary research on AI exposure in labour markets, including IMF analysis.

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Agreed $&@!& him, and any company hires him

You sound burnt out. If possible move back in with parents and family, take some time to rest and recoup. Things will seem a lot clearer once you take some time to reset

Best take so far

And who leads and sets the vision. A committee of “average” engineers?

I regularly do large changes on many millions of lines legacy code bases with no unit tests. It can be done it just requires a lot of work. The only factor that matters is do we need to do this, the rest not so much

Seen this dance many times

Being in the top 0.001% of developers won’t help if you don’t have a large network or good brand

What a fantastic reply

100%. Also The really difficult work is usually a lot more than 40-50 hours a week

This just tells me you have never worked on anything difficult or something you are passionate in your job

In the same boat, the problem is you get stuck in a few companies due to the small circles of people who know what you can really do. It really limits your career options. Doesn’t matter if you regularly do in a week what a few hundred engineers cannot do in a year if no one knows it. Your get stuck in a big corp as they will pay you just enough to keep, nothing close to your worth as with no brand your not going to find better anywhere else

I agree. I am in a very senior role and find that working with AI the same way you do I am many times more productive. Months of work becomes days or even hours of work

I find the opposite, the more senior the more value they offer as you know how to ask the right questions, how to vary the questions and try different tact’s and also observe errors or mistakes

Agile is perfectly optimised for creating tech debt. Corporate software is almost always impossible to change once released so it’s obvious that frequent iterative deliverables that you can only code around or on top of propagate technical debt

To be people who also understand it

I believe it is Christianity, even though I am not religious, my parents were not either, but my grand parents and their parents and so on where. And even though my parents stopped they took their guide from their family and society steeped in this and many of the values stick around for a while

Image delivering a race car to a customer via Agile, starting with first delivering a bicycle

Disappointed, I was hoping they came out with Agile is BS. Which it mostly is.

Marketing people write a lot more

I agree, just look at the reams of rubbish on LinkedIn , people trying to get attention as an example

Wonderful insight!

Persistence vs obstinate are just perceptions of the observer and are based on their soft skills more than them being right or wrong.

SQL syntax seems how humans communicate to me. Can you pass me that cup from the cupboard

Rewrites like all things really on the competence and experience of the people doing the rewrite. C# . Net rewrite worked out pretty damn good

If you are looking at performance I found pulling this code apart a great learning experience.

https://github.com/fredrikwidlund/libreactor

Its frustrating that groups can appropriate words, slogans or sayings and then they can never be used again as they are attached to that context forever :( . Just having to keep up with it all is very tiring.

How is that offensive? We were just brought up not to ask for help,

We have no idea what triggered it, she just logged in, and it was removed for impersonation. My daughter challenged this through a form Instagram provided. It came back saying that the request was denied and the account was gone, and you couldn't try again. Every other request or attempt came back with the same message, where you could not even submit as it blocked the submit form.

To resolve this, I reached out to everyone I knew in tech, I have worked in the industry for over 20 years and know lots of people in lots of companies globally. I also posted here on HN in this post, and several people looked into it for me.

This was really weird for me; I never usually ask for help, for anything. It's not something men in my generation do, even though I help others every chance I get.

Its actually been a valuable life lesson for me, swallowing my pride and risking coming across vulnerable was a little scary, but asking for help was worth it.

Looking back if I did this earlier in my life and career, things would of probably been a lot easier.