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trustfundbabyon Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career

I was the same opinion till Claude code was relased. its a lot closer now.

trustfundbabyon Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career

how? management in most Tech companies are incentivizing them to do just that, so if you bring it up, they'll happily trot over to your manager to complain and then the uncomfortable conversation is you with management about why you're getting in the way of AI uptake by the team.

trustfundbabyon Appearing productive in the workplace

Or maybe they just didn't have the time (left it to the last minute and ran out of it), and went with the first thing that AI proposed which was said CLI with documentation.

trustfundbabyon Alert-driven monitoring

SLO timelines are usually over 7d, 30d etc no? and also often don't work that great for backend services in my experience ... they can't give you the level of reactivity that defining alerts about things you care about give you. I'd argue that moving from that direction upwards to figure out what alerts to aggregate and define SLOs around, rather than the other way around in those cases.

trustfundbabyon Skilled tech workers snapped up despite downturn

I don't think that massive downturn people are thinking is coming ... is going to come. The job market is too strong (because of lower immigration, and how many exited the job market during covid) and so is the housing market.

I thinks its going to be more like this for the next 8-12 months, until the fed stops raising interest rates, and then it will be a mad dash to get everything going again.

trustfundbabyon Skilled tech workers snapped up despite downturn

> Is anyone aware of how hard covid hit the software engineering community via early deaths/retirements?

Can you provide some data around that?

trustfundbabyon Skilled tech workers snapped up despite downturn

Carvana, Vroom, Bird, Helbiz, FuboTv, Shift, Wework, 23andMe to name a few, theres many more.

Their stocks are either in or dangerously close to penny stock category.

trustfundbabyon Granting Pardon for the Offense of Simple Possession of Marijuana

>no one is actually held in jail for this right now

6000+ people were.

trustfundbabyon SPACs are warning they may go bust

Bird is another big one, they've been trading below the $1 watermark for a week or two now, after 30 days of consecutively trading under $1 companies get delisted from the exchange.

trustfundbabyon Bits of advice I wish I had known

> A great way to understand yourself is to seriously reflect on everything you find irritating in others.

This is one of the truest things I've ever read.

trustfundbabyon Bits of advice I wish I had known

The people who like your new stuff will help you figure out how to fix it and make it good enough so the old system truly becomes obsolete, otherwise the old system will continue to exist and people will continue to use it, so that now, theres 2 options instead of just one.

trustfundbabyon Insider Trading at Coinbase

"Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket."

trustfundbabyon Friday.app is shutting down

I had this question as well/

trustfundbabyon US Federal Reserve raises interest rates for first time since 2018

>We did waste the 3 yrs before Covid hit by not increasing interest rates and not reducing Fed's money printing.

Most of the money printing happened in 2020 and after. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL

trustfundbabyon Arm to drop up to 15 percent of staff, about 1k people

> You always see 10-15% cuts leading up to an IPO

No you don't

trustfundbabyon Apple execs: Let's take a 30% cut of Uber and Lyft's membership programs (2018)

No Dichotomy there, its one thing to 'charge more' for your services, its another thing to ask for 30% of your client's SaaS subscription revenue, because you built them a website.

trustfundbabyon New York City will make it mandatory for companies to post salaries on job ads

Thank you for clarifying!

trustfundbabyon New York City will make it mandatory for companies to post salaries on job ads

I think you get to choose the proportion of cash and stock for the number you're given or did I get that completely wrong?

trustfundbabyon Know how your org works, or how to become a more effective engineer

This is a really good post that every engineer should read, especially early on in their career. I spent a lot of mine butting my head against a wall, and getting nowhere because I thought that soft skills and understanding organizational politics (not necessarily participating in them) weren't super important as long as you were good at the primary work of building software.

This post articulates exactly why those things are important and furthermore exactly how to pursue acquiring them in the right measure to get things done in your org. Brilliant stuff.

trustfundbabyon Open-sourcing the Sorbet VS Code Extension

Oh wow. they still use Ruby at Airbnb? For some Reason I thought they'd moved to Go or the JVM.

trustfundbabyon Ask HN: My boss doesn't think I'm doing good work, how to proceed?

I think what probably happened here is this ... your bosses boss, has had misgivings about the project and your work on it, that he's been passing on to your boss. I think your boss either disagrees, or agrees but has been trying to softly nudge you in the right direction without alarming you.

My feeling is that it's probably the latter, which is why you haven't heard anything since the meeting between two of them after you left. You're new in the industry so this isn't something that you should even be able to pick up, but what I'd suggest is a bit more tactful probing around these ideas to find out if one of those guesses is correct.

If you, or worse you AND your boss are on the higher ups shitlist, you want to take corrective action as quickly as possible even if your boss doesn't (which might involve lining up another gig, just in case).

As an anecdote, in a toxic environment, I had a boss who was shielding me in similar fashion from his boss who was supportive of some other coworkers I was repeatedly butting heads with. My boss agreed with me and thought my approach and work was the right way to do things, but I had no inkling till one day he casually mentioned that his boss had weighed in on what up to that point just seemed like low level squabbling. That got me very alarmed indeed, and he was shitcanned not even 4 weeks later. Turns out that they had pressed him repeatedly to fire me, and used he refusal to do so as one of the reasons to get rid of him.

In came a new boss, and within weeks (conveniently after I'd wrapped up a very difficult project, which was part of the reason my now-former boss had been shielding me from them) I was told I had no future at the company (directly from the higher up). So, keep your ears and eyes peeled and proceed to do some digging.

Your boss might not be giving you the full scoop on what's going on behind the scenes, and you might need that information to take evasive action. Hopefully I'm wrong though.

trustfundbabyon A neuroscientist prepares for death

> Is it only me that thinks of it most nights?

yes

trustfundbabyon Google delays mandatory return to office beyond Jan. 10

Something good comes out of Omicron. woooo!

trustfundbabyon PHP 8.1.0

I started out with PHP, if I'm building an actual app though, Ruby on Rails is still my go to.

trustfundbabyon LAPD ended predictive policing but a new effort shares many of their flaws

> Maybe the problem isn't the way the police are operating

What is the problem then? :)

trustfundbabyon Silicon Valley finds remote work is easier to begin than end

Lots of people did that in offices too.

trustfundbabyon iOS 15 Humane

Sounds like a business opportunity ...

trustfundbabyon A request for Pinboard old-timers

Old timer here. I actually wound up building something that worked a little better for me (I wouldn't deign to call it a competitor) but the value pinboard has provided me for years makes this a no brainer. I will pay for at least one year.

Thanks for being so straightforward about this and letting us use it for free all this time!

trustfundbabyon Regular afternoon naps linked to improved cognitive function

"Those in the habit of afternoon napping were also found to have a higher level of triglyceride, a type of fat found in the blood"

This seems like a pretty important caveat.

trustfundbabyon Why do they still make car alarms? (2015)

Someone tried to steal my safety inspection sticker once.

I thought it was hilarious but also felt immense pity for the thief.