If you all are so sad about it do something about it.
Like travel less, spend less on technology
You're part of the problem. It's not just you but it is you too.
So what I will tell my grandchildren is "The old
Geezer Americans are fucking losers who fucked you over before you were born. You don't owe them any respect."
No one can run a nuclear reactor on their phone but can run an AI
We were discussing AI in the 90s and it's been discussed before that.
The answer was always the same; hardware can't hang.
Now it can and will get even better.
The SaaS era fueled by ZIRP and ignorant Congress was a fluke that from an engineering perspective didn't produce anything but hype and same old
The generation enriched and empowered by it is just as temporary as Boomers. Little point in enabling their appeals at the expense of scientific progress that helps all of humanity.
China won't. Russia won't.
It's ridiculous to me the level QQing coming from Americans exploiting child sweatshop labor so they are free to ignore their own biological needs and keep a "knowledge work" job (talk about first world privilege) handing them wealth to go tour the poor villages they exploit.
Those workers never had a choice between college or the mines. So sorry 300 million Americans in a world of 8 billion.
We don't even want these jobs given how much bitching I have listened to the last 10-15. IMO the job creators and Congress saw how Millennials liked to be on the computer and went way too far into enabling such banal output.
Make healthcare and housing the economic tentpole. Both still need jobs and technology. But at least the outcome isn't a generational Ponzi scheme engineered by Boomers to enrich them and then let it all collapse when the majority realize those stocks were never real.
Yeah I am mostly retired in late 40s having saved as much as possible as fast as possible and have time on my hands. Am exploring social media I largely ignored while staying busy working.
Besides even if it was 3 years old account it still wouldn't tell the story correctly.
That's a measure as dumb as lines of code = productivity.
I understand; your parents made your account when you were born in 2017. Being 9 explains such shoddy reasoning. Oh wait is that when you got your first job; making an HN account some universal ritual for all new workers? Shoot too bad I missed out in 1999 when I landed my first real hardware engineer job.
You might need to logoff and go live in the real world a while. Coming off like one of those snowflakes I have heard about
That's a self selecting vain perspective to conclude with.
Code is just storage medium. The hardware ultimately decides a lot that's out of our hands anyway; hardware never runs code in any structured way so getting intimate with the source structure is wasted effort. You're a worse engineer being a bottleneck in deference to bike shedding.
End of the day code is just labels on a mathematical algorithm that fits a biz edge case. Like a k:v store; sumAllCustomerBalances() is a to the a value (the function logic) that serves a business need. If the business is reliant on that behavior it won't go anywhere. And algorithms need to change as data sets change or new better algorithms are discovered.
Code is disposable. We aren't building bridges.
Whole lot of romanticizing the machine seems to have occurred since I started in this industry back in the 00s. Imo a result of people being online debating the (from my perspective) same old since slashdot was the new hotness.
In conclusion I have a different view and have been successful in hardware and software engineering for almost 30 years now.
Writing seems way more important. Requires reading and establishing one's own voice.
But writing in school (at least the district my ex worked for) is focused on boring research essays. There's little if any time spent fostering creative writing.
> I vehemently disagree that people working at big companies are stupid, or making themselves stupid. There are VPs and SVPs at Adobe and Salesforce that are smarter, more knowledgable, and more productive than any startup employee.
That there are outliers in a big group of people is not a big idea.
The issue is that they're outliers while the rest are just there because that's how they earn food and shelter; get job is just how the world works types. Those outliers efforts and communication are then lost to ignorance of the majority who only think in terms of trying to repeat the past/maintain status quo they understand.
For example marketing cannot grok and figure out how to spin a new idea and instead convince management they're "the Photoshop company not whatever this is" to pick the on Adobe.
It's similar to political conservatism, a kind of social conservatism of its own.
If new thing fails they may be fired for bad messaging or glitchy features depending on their role. Feels safer to flog the same old horse too long and fall behind.
Here's me using a Gemini chat log scraper (from Gdrive) then dumping my prompt+Gemini response into local AI
Never go over the free limits in Gemini Pro.
Gemini is great at research and architecture, and my 30 years experience in programming everything; for fun or work; means together there is little to no code slop.
Add to project repo some git submodules of reference source code; boom, bobs your uncle
Zero reason to sign up for OAI or Claude. With employers realizing the costs are more than employees, local models getting more powerful, and models in chips just a few years out, neither of the one note LLM companies without diversified services and R&D portfolios gonna last
Like travel less, spend less on technology
You're part of the problem. It's not just you but it is you too.
So what I will tell my grandchildren is "The old Geezer Americans are fucking losers who fucked you over before you were born. You don't owe them any respect."