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> More people that are not devs, are using AI to create things, and are skilling up to a mediocre level? What skills are being developed by non-devs prompting AI to churn out code …

> When these are found, very often one class of people is put out of work while another class of people gains employment. I think what's contributing to the sense of dread is that …

But getting an answer is not the same thing as understanding why that is the correct answer, or going deeper and learning more about the subject. IMHO, the people who genuinely des…

Honestly in a high COL city in the US, having 4-5 kids would be doable on $300k TC but it wouldn't be easy to give them more than a middle class lifestyle at best. Elsewhere in the…

> But this constant chaos, fear and looking at job offers can't be good for morale. Definitely makes it harder to make long term plans/commitments. It was tolerable at least when t…

> Regardless of that. AI is here to stay. Nobody is going to revoke the constitutions and criminalize AI to prevent this from happening. > What's going to happen will happen. Usern…

If you don't mind sharing, what did you pivot to? Glad you found a path you're happy with!

Where is this "mountain of evidence" that an attack from Iran was imminent?

> GLP-1s How do GLP-1s indicate a casino economy?

I think by "reward" in the context of this discussion on loneliness, OP may have meant the opportunity to meet people, make friends, perhaps hit it off with someone and land a date…

Hmm I think this depends alot on the individual and their particular life situation though. I've done a ton of travel solo over the years and the vast majority of the time it was r…

> unless you're already in your 40s or 50s, you're going to see the bottom fall out of that sector mid-career. Can you elaborate? What's going to happen to the healthcare system?

Docker re-uses layers as needed and can detect when a new layer needs to be added. It's not like images grow in size without bound each time something is changed in the Dockerfile.…

I'm not sure what the complication here is. If application code changes, or some dependency changes, you build a new docker image as needed, possibly with an updated Dockerfile as …

Isn't this problem usually solved by building an actual image for your specific application, tagging that and pushing to some docker repo? At least that's how it's been at placec I…

Product discovery is one facet of it, certainly. It’s also about pursuading people to buy a product / service they don’t really need, creating demand where none (or not as much) ex…

> American higher education is expensive, because you chose to defund public universities. And because you have an unhealthy obsession with rankings and top universities. Those are…

> Tactically switching industries midway through my career led me to significantly higher comp longer term (several multiples). Out of curiosity, which industry did you switch from…

"petit bourgeoisie" used to mean "lower middle class".

People who interview at these companies report on their interview experience. It's true, these leetcode style questions do get asked and not just by the FAANG companies but lots of…

Same here - I was recently offered an "interview support" job by one of these body shops in a far away Asian country, which I immediately rejected. The role would've been to help c…

> In 2023, the software engineering industry faces a record-breaking shortage of professionals. This skills crisis has resulted in an astonishing 1 million tech job vacancies that …

Considering that literally hundreds of thousands of qualified people have been laid off this year alone, many of them devs, and plenty of anecdotes on this and other tech forums/ch…

> The best reason to be ambitious is the realization that the people above you are just as flawed as you are. Can I steal this? It's so on-point and I've seen it many, many times t…

So from what I've seen and learned, there's definitely a difference between being truly smart/visionary/creative etc vs just being "not dumb". And while I suppose the latter could …