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Comment #49153809
No you misunderstand me. I support such a view but cannot hold it because my pace at work is so much fast. And hand coding like this will make personal projects s slow and choreful…
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Comment #49153700
But this way you move way slowly even on personal projects, like you will not even get the basic UI for the app done in a few days? Is that OK for you?
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Comment #49152028
When it comes to cost per implemeting SPEC, agents are far cheaper than human salary. So, it's not going to go well. That said thankfully there's no way of measuring a good SPEC ye…
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Comment #48581883
very cool
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Comment #48581810
SQL isn't an allergy. It's time test. Take medicine to fix your allergy.
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Comment #48489819
Education is not knowledge either. Today market most directly pays for skilled work that increases revenue/profit. Correlation drops after that. It's a struggle I've been trying to…
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Comment #48489540
You are making a wrong assumption that more knowlege leads to more comp, it never has or will.
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Comment #48470376
Has there been anytime, when senior experts in a field, are consistently maintaining this time it's different? You can ignore this at your own peril.
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Comment #48421169
The root cause if of course AI's role in loss of power on compensation (coding as a skill is no longer as valuable), and loss of power in labor vs capital. It's hard to face this, …
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Comment #48411360
The industry should give more security in exchange for reduced pay. We need a social movement for this.
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Comment #48394591
This could have a shot if we also recommend to companies that, they should convert overall pay to ~2/3 for employees, and with the 1/3 extra hire more people. so every company that…
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Comment #48382045
Someone is not let go with the announcement "you are replaced with AI". I know many teams that have downsized, or are not hiring after someone left. There is a reason why leverage …
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Comment #48379766
Wtf.. nauseating to see promise of ai proof roles. No way to guarantee that and irresponsible. Spam shit.
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Comment #48225587
One idea we have discussed in my network is if as an industry reset we all said CS should become a 2X to 6X minimum wage career. So say 30k beginner to 100K senior/lead. This would…
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Comment #48025348
What is the alternative
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Comment #48020091
This is not happening at least for 25 years, is what seniors I trust tell me.
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Comment #48005456
I have asked more than a few dozen people on this, and the answer after some probing is that no other knowledge based career exists that one can move to which is not exposed to AI.…
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Comment #47919831
you may be right on this hunch. but I think the old world is no longer there now :( more thinking is expected per unit time
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Comment #47852433
Does not matter? I think the high compensation will be what will drive the compliance.
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Comment #47802759
Noble thought, but words are empty. Have you perchance written up anything specific? The only one who's written thus is Marx, but those ideas has not found broad socital support.
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Comment #47802048
Nursing perhaps? It seems like caring for other people would be useful even in an otherwise runaway AI world.
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Comment #47801879
> Prospective clients ask Claude to do the work they might have hired me for In all the 10 articles, I think this is the only thing really. I think we have to learn how to overcome…
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Comment #47688482
I guess a long way from "fucking loom smashing" then. Makes this whole thread moot.
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Comment #47649754
Sure, hype pushback is fine.
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Comment #47649750
When you say sabotage, how exactly? Or is it limited to refusal to use LLM, which is a strategy, but more like becoming a hobbyist programmer then.