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Sounded like you were saying you wish people were more platonic and interested in discovery for the sake of discovery, and not for the sake of personal accomplishment. The problem is, when someone else makes a discovery, there's no way for me to get paid for it. So the more "platonic" I become, the more I surrender myself to homelessness.
Or did I misunderstand?
So what are you telling your wife/kids? Or are you single with no dependents? Or maybe you already made it to financial independence and that's where the carefree attitude comes from? Not criticizing, just curious.
Less performative than commenting on HN, at least.
> You have to go out, talk to people but more importantly observe them, listen to them lie, tease out what they are actually willing to pay for from what they claim they will. Then you have to talk to investors.
Was this supposed to make it obvious? I don't see why AI/LLMs can't solve all these problems.
At least in your line of work, you can make a mistake and undo it before it causes any problems. Surgeons don't have it that easy.
Problem is learning math as a hobby doesn't put food on the table.
> AI is making it increasingly easy to start your own business.
Why do you think entrepreneurship will be spared? Funny how you dunk on surgeons but then claim that you yourself are "protected" in the same breath.
Not sure how you operate, but I've never worked on any project in my 10+ years as a professionally employed JS dev where we've shipped Jest in our release.
I don't audit all the code I run (I don't think anyone does), but I do audit all the code I _release_. What's actually important to you?
Yes 20 total dependencies including transients. If a lib has many subdependencies I take this as a red flag and try to avoid it.
Where do you find these guys? I haven't worked on a project with more than 20 dependencies, and usually those dependencies have 0 subdependencies so they're quite easy to audit.
The core of the problem is a profit incentive and an economy based on greed. Our society is designed to extract value, not to offer the best products/services to the general population.
You don't need to be a good algorithm engineer to secure a high-paying job though. In fact high-paying jobs regularly turn away strong algorithm engineers because they can't pass leetcode challenges.
The advice is sound -- if you want money focus on the flashy buzzword thing, not the actually useful thing.
People are really going to dislike what you're saying
2 years ago your AI tools didn't exist, and you're trying to make predictions 5 years out.
I wish I could be as bliss about the whole situation as you are!
I think both you and said poster have misunderstood what "skin in the game" actually means.
> should we stop treating the idea that humans must possess some capability AI can never replace as the starting point for discussions about humanity's future?
> I'm inclined to think we should.
Mate, I think we're not even invited to the conversation. A small group of people are planning humanity's future and they're going to inflict it on us whether we like it or not.
You know, unless someone stops them somehow.
Offshore team absolutely has skin in the game, for the exact same reasons OP said -- they want to keep their roof over their head.
AI will never have this. AI is a product, and it has no motivations or self-preservation. The only goal for the AI is to increase your lifetime token spend to maximize profit for corporation.
What do we need you for then?
> I suspect that this is actually driving the software engineer hiring slow-down
Are we in a slow-down anymore? Anecdotally I feel things were rough Dec '25 - June '26, but ever since August I've had more interview requests in my inbox than I can remember in my 10+ year career.
> the most common type of work in human history
Surprised to see someone casually admit that the most common type of human labor is slave labor.
Weird to put banking and trading on the same complexity level as medicine or ML.
> Capital and connections are open
Disagree
It's not silly, especially when the data shows productivity gains for remote employees.
It's silly to assume people are better at coordinating work in office.
It is about control, even if it's just about controlling how you interact with your coworkers.
Sociopathic billionaires like Musk, Thiel, Ellison, Zuckerberg, and their cohort.
Must just spent over $500M influencing midterms in the US.
They don't want us to have any power left a few years from now, and they're winning.
> forcing employees back to the office so they can be less isolated.
They're forcing employees back to office so they can have more control.
> The companies were always trying to get coworkers together
Sure, get together for "team building" to increase productivity. Just don't do anything problematic like discuss your salary or benefits with any of your coworkers.
Seems like you misunderstood my comment.
Sounds like you definitely don't belong in the US with that attitude!
> and without the extractive institutions we’d spend our time scrabbling in the dirt
The extractive institutions are pleased that you believe this.
You say all that then still land on the same problematic viewpoint:
> a doctor's successful intervention and the divine cause that enables it
For religious people there is always the single factor, and it's always a bit insulting when they remind you they view the world this way.