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Re:Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or ... by post-it on Friday March 06, 2026 @02:30PM (#47279916)
> The best engineers can visualize the whole architecture in their head, and describe exactly what they want to an AI

I think this must be part of it. I see so many posts about people burning a thousand dollars in AI credits building a small app, and I have no idea why. I use the $20 Claude plan and I rarely run out of usage, and I make all kinds of things. I just describe what I want, do a few back-and-forths of writing out the architecture, and Claude does it.

I think the folks burning thousands of dollars of credits are unable to describe what they want.

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Re:Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or ... by andrekandre on Friday March 06, 2026 @07:19PM (#47282908) 

  > I think the folks burning thousands of dollars of credits are unable to describe what they want.
my related question whenever i hear a story like that: are they just filthy rich or have any plan to make that money back?
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Re:Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or ... by alchemism on Saturday March 07, 2026 @08:37AM (#47287537)
San Francisco, 1849.
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Re:Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or ... by boppo1 on Friday March 06, 2026 @10:37PM (#47284243)
> think the folks burning thousands of dollars of credits are unable to describe what they want.

Basically, yes. I bought 'business tier' and I know about webdev but I'm somewhere between intern and junior, so I do a lot of discussing. One session is "I want [functionality and constraints], ask me relevant major design questions" then implementation, then me investigating and asking for fixes.

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