shusson

The cost of generating lines of code which look good has dropped 90%.... Take that as you will.

The majority of software engineers today, (mostly in big tech) are not interested in software engineering. They studied it to make money. This happened before LLMs. Add the fact that software development isn’t deterministic. And you have a perfect storm of chaos.

But our discipline has been through similar disruptions in the past. I think give it a few years then maybe we’ll settle on something sane again.

I do think the shift is permanent though. Either you adapt to use these LLMs well or you will struggle to be competitive (in general)

> I find it interesting how starkly bimodal attitudes toward employer loyalty are.

It's because employers create a narrative which makes people think they are valued beyond the transactional. People develop relationships with employers and have trust in them. In my experience it is very easy to fall into this narrative unless you have experience otherwise.

The article forgot to mention websockets add state to the server! Load balancing will require sticking sessions. At scale this tends to mean separating websocket servers completely from http servers.

What if they are providing negative value?

> this author play acts his way through the solution.

I thought it was a nice bit of irony. At work there's so much play-acting but all in a serious tone.

I wonder if people had the same reaction when children started using calculators.

This is another way to determine if a company is a "start-up"! If you work at a company that has OKRs, it's no longer a start-up or it's time to bail because said start-up is about to fail.

> The US, UK, EU and realistically most developed countries I would say have fairly similar quality of life within margin of error.

Having lived in the EU (Netherlands) and the US (California), I would say the inequality in the US is much worse. Especially in larger cities. To the point where I sometimes wonder if I'm living in a "developed" country.

There are a lot of big egos in team sports, and in high performing teams you often have a team full of big egos, although there are usually a few "team players". I wonder what coaches think about ego.

Agreed, I think a lot of people do not appreciate the complexity of software systems. If we could prove software, we wouldn't have bugs. https://wiki.c2.com/?ProofsCantProveTheAbsenceOfBugs

Answering based on my own experience transferring to an E3 from E3D. You can apply for E3 from within US, but you will not be able to travel outside the US because you won’t get a visa stamp. You will also likely want to pay for premium processing if going through USCIS. Alternatively, you can apply at a consulate outside the US, which gives you a stamp. https://americajosh.com is a good resource for E3s.

> …it couldn't find product market fit. That's not something that's really on the developer

Why is it not on the developer?

It would be nice to point out that: "PredictionHealth is currently not hiring in the following states: CA, MT, HI, or NY"

Yeah what’s the hesitation for having an API?

Yeah the progression feels like a textbook example of the iron law of bureaucracy [1]

[1]https://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/iron.html

> software engineers are the worst at planning their own work. The vast majority will just go off and do wtf ever they want

There are successful companies that have senior engineers managing/leading teams and still coding. This idea that software engineers need managers and that somehow being a software engineer means only coding (IC) is a pattern that early American tech companies went with. Originally I imagine it was to reward and empower engineers, these days I feel like more and more companies use it to control and manipulate engineers.

Interesting, I’ve never heard of that interpretation. Heat pumps have always been a technology to me. The same tech that is in everyone’s refrigerator.

Yes modern day a/c is usually a heatpump. I’ve noticed a lot of people misunderstanding heat pumps, and thinking it’s some sort of replacement for A/C. Or that heat pumps are some new tech.

Does anyone know if re-purposing large office buildings for farming is feasible? I've been thinking about this because of the possible down turn in commercial real-estate values.

> There are some parts of this planet where it it very hard to envision mass EV adoption.

A lot of EV's are already at 500km range. Within this decade we should see 1000km range. Add some charging infrastructure and we are gold. Just look at the chargers Tesla has built in California (and there is still a lot of potential to improve).

I would add a counter point to foreign key constraints, they make deletions and updates a lot more costly [1].

[1] https://shusson.info/post/postgres-experiments-deleting-tabl...

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Hi I'm Shane and I've been working as a Software Engineer for just over 10 years. Most of my career has been focused on developing web applications within the health space. I'm interested primarily on working on applications that improve healthcare, but I am also open to other opportunities that have a positive impact on society. I'm currently looking for work in the United States.

Stupid question, why isn’t simple capitalism working on the port? This solution while admirable, reminds me of the USSR trying to set the price of bread.

As mentioned in the tweet, the impressive part is that "DuckDuckGo doesn't have any search histories by design and, bc of that, has had 0 search warrants"

  Location: San Francisco, CA
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Typescript, Javascript, Node.js, Angular, Go, Python, Postgres, Elasticsearch.
  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shusson
  Email: [email protected]
  Website: https://shusson.info

Hi I'm Shane and I've been working as a Software Engineer for just over 10 years. Most of my career has been focused on developing web applications within the health space. I'm interested primarily on working on applications that improve healthcare, but I am also open to other opportunities that have a positive impact on society. I'm currently looking for work in the United States (based in SF) and will be available Jan 2022.