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That too, is easier than ever. It's just work, there's no secrets to it.
Nope - this is one of the blind spots people have. Right now GeAI is making it easier for many people to get started on projects they have. It’s improving starts of new projects. GenAI is not creating demand for new projects. Or new novels, new movies, new stories. People are ending up creating, essentially, for themselves.
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That too, is easier than ever. It's just work, there's no secrets to it.
Nope - this is one of the blind spots people have. Right now GeAI is making it easier for many people to get started on projects they have. It’s improving starts of new projects. GenAI is not creating demand for new projects. Or new novels, new movies, new stories. People are ending up creating, essentially, for themselves.
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I was making $50/hour fresh out of college back in 2014. And I worked remotely. $45/hour today is not great given the cost of living.
Jeez--I was making $50/hr in 2004 in one of my first jobs after I finished my PhD and opted out of academia. That pay didn't go that far back then! This is what upsets me about my career--that logistic pay curve. You initially grow fast and then it tops out and never gets better, but your costs keep rising, particularly as you have a family. I'm paying for one kid's college tuition right now, she has 1.5 years left,…
https://philip.greenspun.com/careers/
scroll down to the phrase:
THIS IS YOUR EDUCATION, THIS IS YOUR SALARY
If I were you I'd be tempted to rewrite my PhD as a multi-year "special project". Reason is that hiring a PhD is controversial unless you're a university or a research division of a corporation. In contrast, the CS/Math & MS will always be solid & saleable.
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1. The cheapest American city is maybe half thr cost of the most expensive. Meanwhile in the most expensive Indian city, one could live like a king at 1/3 the cost of the cheapest American city with far more culture and things to do. And if you were willing to move to the cheapest Indian cities you could halve that again. 2. Correct. Given that the majority of SW jobs, especially the highest paying ones, were located…
> The cheapest American city is maybe half thr cost of the most expensive. I currently live in Seattle. On Zillow, I can find a house in the small town where I grew up with the same stats as mine (square footage, number of bedrooms, baths). That house is about a fourth of the cost that Zillow says my current home is worth. Oh, and the house in the small town has a 750' storage building out back. And another 1,500' sh…
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I think you're contradicting yourself or getting some wires crossed. >You're right, talented workers get talented pay, but talented pay in Romania is a lot less than talented pay in San Francisco. But this is due to again, vastly different standards of living in different economies. Geo-based pay ranges have always been a thing, but I think it's a bit reasonable to draw the line here. So it's not: >it absolutely is a…
> Companies were already out-sourcing before great video conferencing software or an understanding of how to work with remote teams. And those experiments failed in the 2000s. But in the 2020s with an extended pandemic lockdown over 2-3 years, async work was proven to succeed. I am one of those decisionmakers and the pandemic effect did convince the last stragglers that offshoring by directly managing a subsidiary in…
most roles in the US are staff or senior+. the rest of pleb engineering are either in Eastern Europe or India and a couple in Brazil / Latin America.
few places choose UK, Ireland etc but savings not enough compared to eastern europe / india.
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What is the alternative? Get stuck in the old days and never improve so the talentless lazy people continue living their lazy lives?
Yes, unless you are proposing some kind of way to get rid of people unfortunate to live in such places.
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In my experience, if you're working on a green-field project, you're working long hours, making very little visible progress, you have to write a lot of code, make important decisions. All the while management is breathing down your neck and asking 'why isn't it ready yet'. Once the thing is shipped, then all the important people come out of the woodwork, who were surely there all along, 'supporting' you from behind…
> In my experience, if you're working on a green-field project, you're working long hours, making very little visible progress, you have to write a lot of code, make important decisions. Funny, this is the complete opposite of my experience. Greenfield projects I've been a part of have had a ton of highly visible progress with _frequent_ updates to stakeholders basically from day 1. Same goes for complex additional f…
I think the OP meant projects that required long investments without immediate returns. For instance, a platform migration that requires many components to be finished before it can even be tested. Or, real greenfield, like a new product venture with a unproven customer thesis. The kind that requires months of work before you can go to market and validade... How do you report progress? Components built, percentage completed? Without something a user can drive or a seller sell, that's not progress... It's just speculation.