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RE: 1. I did consulting for a bit, $500/hr haha I was so reluctant to do it. I do admit that SV was just pouring way too much money back then. The good old days. I don't live in th…

also people have no clue how to know what is good or bad. It's like if I asked an LLM to produce a contract for a a new hire (my friend the one I mentioned, did that BTW LOL) Yeah,…

my uncle is 70+ years old and he's one of those haha I saw him starting at a monitor at midnight, back all hunched up and thought "nope, not what I envision"

yeah, I've seen plenty of people like us. What I'm sad about is when others call us out for being a ludite or so. But now I understand that these people don't understand that some …

Thanks for the recommendation, I in fact couldn't sleep past 5am today and woke up to check an SQLite presentation on that channel. Pure gold! I think that's how it is, we just got…

Hey beej71, I'm 41 and I love advice from people with more life experience than me. I also love teaching (not particularly great at it, but not the worst) and taught SALSA dancing …

good you realized that, but you do mention an interesting approach: Most of my friends would use cheat codes to beat games. Me and my brother (who's a crazy amazing artist btw) wou…

One thorn? I already lived under a cave but did you see the amount of money and hype pushed into AI? Just look at YC, 90% AI, just like it was crypto back then. Jensen Huang saying…

Hey great for you! I've been on a 3 year sabbatical, and I spend most summers in the countryside with my kids, grilling meat, planting berries, going in nature for hours-long walks…

EXACTLY! The dopamine we get from doing stuff with mostly our own hands is unbelievable. But social media, junk food, and adult content should have taught us that cheap dopamine is…

because some of us have some dignity (and savings) left. That's really just what it is. If I lie to my wife I can't sleep at night. I almost sold my soul to the devil doing AI assi…

Damn, would love to work somewhere where no LLMs are needed. I have a friend working for Nintendo stuff (I think he does something for their secondary software, IE sales) and he is…

I used to think there'd be space for unfuckers. Now I'm doubftul. Yeah I could do management and all that crap but I was Eng Manager for 5 months and hated it. Some of us are like …

if I got $1 for every time me or anyone I know prompted AI, got the wrong answer, and people claimed "you need good practices / get better at prompting" I'd be a millionaire The pr…

It's like the casino, crypto gambling, or eating junk food. We're wired for that short-term gains and few of us can escape it. I understand that, just sad that the casino slot mach…

Yep agree. As much as I like to put power in the individual, this has become a huge nightmare for those of us who were kind of decent programming. This was NOT the case 5 years ago…

I actually quit bigger companies and SV contracts because the amount of hype was way overblown. Nothing could not be AI, really. Think about how crazy it is that Jensen Huang is sa…

what does "verify the data on disk" even mean? I guess without knowing what the project is it's weird to think testing it + checking some files is enough, at least for me

I literally was earning 5x times more working for contracts and companies but got super sick of it, I was happy to work with one single guy (who PROMISED to keep AI at bay, it was …

Haha this is such a funny argument really. My guy in fact started by blaming himself for prompting wrong, and yesterday he was "upset" that his friend Claudio missed some important…

This is the thing that people just simply don't see. And for those who say "well why code and use your brain?", may I remind them that cities where people do a lot of walking are s…

problem is I can't, because the BE is not doing what the FE team needs it to do. The FE team consists of me btw.

social media in an excellent example, alcohol, or even marihuana where it's pretty much legal to consume in my home country and a total pain in the ass for those of us who hate the…

no worries, a lot of these assumptions exist mostly in my head as a frustrated dev. and yeah luckily I ended up quitting just right when coding was getting easy with LLMs and even …

exactly how I feel. I mean let's face it, we were overpaid and underworked because we were considered magicians, but the magic is gone. What I fear is that it's impossible for the …