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Re: I'm helping my dog vibe code games

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Post by kalaksi »

ryandrake wrote: post #260

Total aside, but the wildest thing I found about the article was OP's chill attitude about being laid off. He just glossed over it at the very beginning! "Oh, jeez, I got laid off, what a bummer. I guess I'll just spend some quality time with my family and dog now!" Props to OP, I could never. If I was suddenly laid off, I'd be an absolute wreck, mentally. It would be four-alarm fire time, and I doubt I'd get a good…

Maybe they have savings. They might also be eligible for some kind of allowance/benefits for some time and therefore are not immediately losing money.

Re: I'm helping my dog vibe code games

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Post by ngc248 »

rkomorn wrote: post #267
ngc248 wrote: post #265

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Management already got us all copilot licenses .. soon they will get us all a dog

This would definitely make me want to rejoin tech.

Management would get us all dogs and they would get cats for themselves ... like blofeld from James bond ...

Re: I'm helping my dog vibe code games

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Post by redbell »

Thanks for sharing this unusual experiment, I love it! This is the type of content that makes HN, HN.

Now, I started considering hiring my three little kitties and their mom for a job like this. They spend the whole day sleeping and waiting for meals but now, they have to work, hard, in collaboration with Claude Code to pay for their rent and meals :)

Re: I'm helping my dog vibe code games

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Post by serial_dev »

ryandrake wrote: post #260

Total aside, but the wildest thing I found about the article was OP's chill attitude about being laid off. He just glossed over it at the very beginning! "Oh, jeez, I got laid off, what a bummer. I guess I'll just spend some quality time with my family and dog now!" Props to OP, I could never. If I was suddenly laid off, I'd be an absolute wreck, mentally. It would be four-alarm fire time, and I doubt I'd get a good…

At least, for me, the level of panic would depend on how long I can pay for rent / mortgage and covering the costs of having a family, diapers, food, heating, paying the bills, so basically everything that makes sure that a temporary change in employment status doesn't result in multi-decade negative effects on my family's life.

If I could cover these with my savings for 1y+, I'd give zero fs about getting laid off. Unfortunately, I can't, so time to focus on spending less, earning more, saving more.

Re: I'm helping my dog vibe code games

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Post by sl-1 »

ryandrake wrote: post #260

Total aside, but the wildest thing I found about the article was OP's chill attitude about being laid off. He just glossed over it at the very beginning! "Oh, jeez, I got laid off, what a bummer. I guess I'll just spend some quality time with my family and dog now!" Props to OP, I could never. If I was suddenly laid off, I'd be an absolute wreck, mentally. It would be four-alarm fire time, and I doubt I'd get a good…

This can be a bit of a class thing. If one has enough money/capital/savings to weather the unemployment, why panic? And if one has been raised in environment where there never are such buffers, panic is the default answer.

Re: I'm helping my dog vibe code games

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Post by rkomorn »

ngc248 wrote: post #272
rkomorn wrote: post #267

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This would definitely make me want to rejoin tech.

Management would get us all dogs and they would get cats for themselves ... like blofeld from James bond ...

Not a problem for me... I'm a dog person.

Re: I'm helping my dog vibe code games

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Post by nly »

ryandrake wrote: post #260

Total aside, but the wildest thing I found about the article was OP's chill attitude about being laid off. He just glossed over it at the very beginning! "Oh, jeez, I got laid off, what a bummer. I guess I'll just spend some quality time with my family and dog now!" Props to OP, I could never. If I was suddenly laid off, I'd be an absolute wreck, mentally. It would be four-alarm fire time, and I doubt I'd get a good…

Once you've been laid off for the first time you soon learn to be prepared.

Once you've been laid off 2-3 times in your career your entire perspective on work will change.

The last time I got laid off I had a settlement payment of one years pay, some of which was tax free, it took me 4 months to find a new job, and it resulted in a pay rise. I was lucky... I have a friend who had unstable employment for 2 years after his layoff.

I was anxious as fuck for the whole time and felt like an absolute failure. As a result of that experience, I have carefully piled up enough liquid savings and investments to pay my living expenses for many years without working, with ~2-3 years worth sat in cash equivalents.

Anyone in tech following the 3-6 months savings advice is living on the edge.

Re: I'm helping my dog vibe code games

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Post by ryandrake »

simoncion wrote: post #269
ryandrake wrote: post #260

Total aside, but the wildest thing I found about the article was OP's chill attitude about being laid off. He just glossed over it at the very beginning! "Oh, jeez, I got laid off, what a bummer. I guess I'll just spend some quality time with my family and dog now!" Props to OP, I could never. If I was suddenly laid off, I'd be an absolute wreck, mentally. It would be four-alarm fire time, and I doubt I'd get a good…

> Don't people have rent/mortgages to pay anymore? Are you too early in your working life to have catastrophe savings [0]? If you're not, is it seriously going to be a four-alarm fire if you suddenly got fired? Related, like, do you have a plan for what happens if unexpected injury prevents you from doing the work you're doing ever again? [0] let alone "fuck you" savings

I mean, by now I have savings, but I still kind of live as though I don't. The way I was taught was that you're never supposed to touch your savings. If you have to, it's a huge problem. If the balance is going up, that's normal, and if the balance is going down, that's a raging fire.

Re: I'm helping my dog vibe code games

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Post by OJFord »

This makes me wonder if dogs understand (or can be trained) the concept of building. Say you did something physical - 3D scanner and 3D printer connected to automatically attempt to replicate an object placed in the scanner area (and maybe then on button press). Could a dog understand it, and intentionally try to replicate its favourite toy, or a bone, etc.?
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