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> No him/her. Uh. What?
I think he means don't be trans. Fits with the rest of the rant.
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#72There are a number of reasons I’d site for the current job market tightness: - political: there’s an enormous amount of uncertainty here. All businesses make plans and uncertainty puts them all on pause. - economic: related to political, but we’re teetering on a very bad recession. Watch where national oil reserves go. - AI: I throw this in with every new technology that comes out. There is always a period of chaos b…
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> There is always a period of chaos before normalization.
In this case, it's the normalization period that has people terrified.
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#73> when I need to recall off the top of my head the proper way to instantiate a list or heap in X language You only need to know for one though...
It was an example. I guess even an off hand example, now must be completely 100% technically correct , or you aren't worth a job? And, I'm pretty sure in "X" language, you can call them differently. Since it is "X", how do you know.
> I guess even an off hand example, now must be completely 100% technically correct , or you aren't worth a job?
It's a litmus test, and not a terribly challenging one. It's solved by spending a week doing simple coding challenges.
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#74> I've seen people supposedly smarter than I advocate for just giving in, conceding to AI coding as it's the future. But doing so means tossing out my friends who make art or the people who work their asses off to properly test and review code or the writers pouring all of their energy into even mundane dialogue. It means throwing out my dignity Conflating things in this inflammatory way is a big mistake. Using a tec…
Not sure the technology is the issue here. He isn't debating using Java v C#, and one is a betrayal of all that is holy, so he refuses to use it.
I think everyone kind of feels that AI is sucking up all the content that we have all created collectively, and we all know that the bell is tolling for thee, no matter how much you adapt. So if you see friends being fed into a meat grinder, you can have a 'culture war' take on it. He's posting on line to vent, something everyone is venting about.
Of course, for a job, to get a paycheck, we'd use any technology, even if we are the ones running the meat grinder.
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#76If you truly give a shit you have to change and help make the mess less mess. It sucks, it might be worse than it was, but you can't continue giving a shit by not participating. The horse has left the barn on this one.
The frontier model companies could all collapse tomorrow but the tech is not going anywhere.
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#77> I've seen people supposedly smarter than I advocate for just giving in, conceding to AI coding as it's the future. But doing so means tossing out my friends who make art or the people who work their asses off to properly test and review code or the writers pouring all of their energy into even mundane dialogue. It means throwing out my dignity Conflating things in this inflammatory way is a big mistake. Using a tec…
The author is coming from the games industry. As an arts based industry, AI is EXTREMELY divisive. The author really will lose friends over even so much as touching AI in certain ways, because the artists that built the games industry were already badly abused, and now, they're being squeezed out entirely. For business developers, AI is somewhat less existentially terrifying, as it can be seen to be really empowering…
Arts or no arts companies hire you to do X, not to make friends.
If you stop doing X you will be fired/not-hired, simple as.
You can make friends on your free time.
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#78> I've seen people supposedly smarter than I advocate for just giving in, conceding to AI coding as it's the future. But doing so means tossing out my friends who make art or the people who work their asses off to properly test and review code or the writers pouring all of their energy into even mundane dialogue. It means throwing out my dignity Conflating things in this inflammatory way is a big mistake. Using a tec…
yeah, the question is what would you do with $100 million? I mean I don't have $100 million but I'd give it to the arts after I've taken care of myself well and science. Am I gonna make $100 million playing with AI? I don't even know if I can take care of myself, shit, but the government ain't gonna do that. What are the new jobs after the Saaspocalypse? Well all the money went to those companies and what do those companies want or what do those newly minted millionaires want? Hopefully something I have but shit yo. So they're gonna go back to where they came from and be millionaires but how much is Dave Chappelle changed the city that he moved to? Is there a Dave Chappelle center for comedy? some of them want ASI so I look forward to studies on human intelligence. Maybe they'll pay human subjects to model supply two digit numbers while in an MRI machine hopefully enough of those studies to pay my mortgage.
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#79During the pandemic money printing things got very weird. It created a lot of leverage and bullshit companies and bullshit dev work which led to artificial demand for software developers. We are still in the post-pandemic hangover. If you look up M2 money supply on St Louis fed - that chart has more influence on the job market in the US than anything. The macro whiplash compounds this problem for people like OP in a…
Nobody likes to hear it, but this is the only explanation that makes sense. We had an unprecedented economic shock, and we're dealing with an unprecedented economic fallout. The only question is how much longer it will last.
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#80Curious about the perspective from anyone who has a skill set / reputation where finding jobs is easy right now. I imagine people in ML or who've found a good way to demonstrate prowess with agentic systems may be highly in demand right now(?)
> Curious about the perspective from anyone who has a skill set / reputation where finding jobs is easy right now. It's easy to find jobs in software engineering provided you have an attractive resume.
What, in your evaluation, are the top two or three attributes of an attractive resume?