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My grandfather’s career was in decline before my father hit adulthood (autoworker, electronics), my father’s career (nuclear control systems engineer) was in decline from the day h…

Sounds like your brain was cooked by sound bites over reason and statistics! Culture war indeed! In fact, we see this now in Silicon Valley where 80% of workers are foreign born. N…

Well, yeah, management sees a weak labor market and imagines the ability to fire all those troublesome engineers. Remember, especially in recent years, tech management is made up p…

15 YOE, here: Well, I just interviewed between October - Decemeber of last year, and since then, the company I joined has gone full vibe-coding and is changing to AI interviews. So…

It's funny because Apple said on stage Lightning was their connector for the next decade in 2012 then shipped it for exactly a decade, despite being the first to ship a USB-C devic…

Jeff Bezos started Amazon with family money. Sure, there were richer folks, but few have parents capable of giving them hundreds of thousands of dollars for a business venture.

If you can point to single product he has made through his "vibe-coding" that isn't for "vibe-coding," I think they would all relent.

I see a lot of folks lamenting how Yegge has ignited a fire under leadership for egoless, factory worker style engineers. I don't think many would care much otherwise, but his post…

Every Yegge post about AI reads like a Music Man style con job, but he’s got Silicon Valley startup founders salivating and pushing his book to their employees.

I know plenty of engineers with expensive trucks used to carry their families around during the week and haul their hunting bounty home on weekends. In that scenario, the Cybertruc…

BINGO: the folks buying these things are doing so to virtue signal their politics. If you need a truck for work or hunting, you're still buying a truck, not some Silicon Valley con…

Open up an Amazon media app and navigate around enough, and you'll encounter a page with all their "Third Party Software Licenses." For instance, here's one for the Amazon Music ap…

There are no empty slots for med school in America. We turn qualified kids away.

As my manager at Amazon once told me, “Amazon prefers H1Bs because they take more abuse.”

Exactly. The difference is doctors were able to cap the number of doctors graduated, and now we have a shortage. Welp, I know the solution to that.

This article is saying the slowdown started as early as a year ago. That of course opens up the discussion of whether this new revision is political cover for the current administr…

Amazon's hallucinating a fake 1-800 number for me to call is both peak Amazon and peak AI bubble.

Yes, but when Marc Benioff says he laid off thousands of customer service agents, the reporting is "Salesforce cuts tech workers using AI." The narrative in media is a total mess r…

From the subhead > Money earmarked for semiconductor company under Chips Act could be converted into equity They’re already getting federal money.

For sure, the Dotcom crash didn’t mean the web was bad technology.

You’re close. The issue is we can’t discuss class, so they look for all sorts of other analogs which they can get the wealthy folks on board with. DEI is acceptable to the wealthy …

Could you please point to the whining? He says MPEG is broken, but AOM will stagnate. You’re mad at the messenger.

You missed the first part of that quote: > At long last everybody realises that the old MPEG business model is now broke And the entire post is about how dysfunctional MPEG is and …