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by fooker 9mo ago
> easiest This is the keyword here, just because the other approach is harder does not mean it is impossible. It's a decent gamble to try and do things the hard way if it is possible to be deployed on cheaper/smaller hardware (
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by fooker 9mo ago
Now think of a more specific category - big tech employees with 5+ years of experience. There are a bunch more expensive hobbies, about half of the developers I know (personally outside of work environments) have one or more. Planes came up
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by fooker 9mo ago
Yes, you are right. I am not sure why everyone keeps bringing up the average though. You have to decide whether it makes sense for you to be somewhere, based on how much you can expect to make and what your quality of life will be. What t
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by fooker 9mo ago
Big tech is about 2x of median, yes. Even that is embarrassingly low compared to literally anywhere else with offices.
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by fooker 9mo ago
I agree, not sure what the generalization was. My point was that if you have a senior level big tech job in the US, it makes zero sense to move to Europe unless you have family there or want to make a significant financial sacrifice. Obviou
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by fooker 9mo ago
> Losing a week of salary is still pretty bad Keep in mind the salary is 3-5x for big tech positions with 5+ years of experience. Check levels.fyi if you don’t believe me. > Days that you can actually take without losing the chance fo
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by fooker 9mo ago
There are a dozen startups that do this.
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by fooker 9mo ago
> But sure, the cost of "one bridge, please" has gone up over time. Even if you adjust for inflation?
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by fooker 9mo ago
> The cost of LLMs dealing with their own generated multi-million LOC systems is very unlikely to become tractable in the near future If you have a concrete way to pose this problem, you'll find that there will be concrete solutions
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by fooker 9mo ago
Check GPT 5.2 vs it's predecessor the 'o' series of reasoning models.
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by fooker 9mo ago
Luxury watches have gone up, 'clocks' as a technology is cheaper than ever. You can buy one for 90 cents on temu.
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by fooker 9mo ago
Planes, boats, racing, horses. The rule of thumb is that expensive hobbies cost in a year what the median yearly income in your area is. A European tech salary would be about 2x of the median while a US tech salary can be 5-6x.
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by fooker 9mo ago
True, a bad economy will stagnate wages by definition.
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by fooker 9mo ago
OpenAI has always priced newer models lower than older ones.
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by fooker 9mo ago
No, people do not do that. This is harmless when it comes to tech opinions but causes real damage in politics and activism. People get really attached to ideals and ideas, and keep sticking to those after they fail to work again and again.
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by fooker 9mo ago
They are the same thing. In silicon valley, you can not afford to underpay good engineers, as they'll move across the street and get a job that pays double after a year. In most other places, this ecosystem does not exist because it is
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by fooker 9mo ago
10x more tokens today cost less than than half of X tokens from ~mid 2024.
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by fooker 9mo ago
> They are probably not that good for the society I don't disagree, as in an abstract sense inequality is bad for society. Try to understand why the US has high tech salaries though. It is because the last 40 years have made it pret
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by fooker 9mo ago
Right. I not talking about average wages, as that has no bearing on whether I would want to live somewhere. I'll primarily look at what I can make and what my quality of life would be like.
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by fooker 9mo ago
You are right, going the other way can be tough though. There are hobbies and interests you can pursue with a tech salary in the US that are somewhat out of reach in Europe without generational wealth.
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by fooker 9mo ago
> It might become cheaper or it might not If it does not, this is going to be first technology in the history of mankind that has not become cheaper. (But anyway, it already costs half compared to last year)
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by fooker 9mo ago
Right now it relies on silicon valley's ability to churn out unicorns again and again. That part seems to be taking an ugly turn nowadays by a bunch of military AI/drone swarm/etc focused startups. I'm guessing that even
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by fooker 9mo ago
Free education and childcare doesn’t come close to shrinking a 300k USD gap in total compensation. Real number in my case, I looked into moving to Berlin last year. > Not to mention the fascism problem of course. Agreed. The US is going
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by fooker 9mo ago
You’re right, I meant Europe. But makes me wonder if EU policies are contributing to wage stagnation. There had been several high profile cases in the US about wage stagnation, so much that tech companies are a bit wary of this topic.
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by fooker 9mo ago
> because token capacity is neither unlimited nor free. This is like dissing software from 2004 because it used 2gb extra memory. In the last year, token context window increased by about 100x and halved in cost at the same time. If this
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by fooker 9mo ago
It would be interesting to see if there would be a market for handcrafted/vintage software the way there is one for luxury items like expensive watches.
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by fooker 9mo ago
I love this way of framing it. Most software is in this category, but now we are being honest about it and can make it without paying a team of four for a year.
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by fooker 9mo ago
Sure, if they want to pay decent salaries. But no, you can make 3-4x in the US. That’s not an exaggeration. And before someone says ‘free healthcare’, big-tech employers in the US provide pretty nice insurance for employees that caps maximu
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by fooker 9mo ago
You are right. What you are missing is that the thing driving this untrusted pile of hacks keep getting better at a rapid pace. So much that the quality of the output is passable now, mimicking man-years of software engineering in a matter
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by fooker 9mo ago
These liquids show up as slightly different colors in the new CT scan machines and this can finally be reliably detected by software. This is also why a bunch of airports no longer ask you to take electronics out of your bags.

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