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by jongjong 1mo ago
My experience as a software engineer in EU was horrible. I wish I could say it was something out of a horror movie, but it would be too frustrating to watch. I joined a major cryptocurrency project, saw its market cap briefly increase to $4
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by jongjong 1mo ago
This has been a theme for me over the past couple of years. I'm noticing the limitations of words and language, including those that come out of my own mouth. You can choose your words carefully, but it's useless unless your audie
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by jongjong 1mo ago
So true. NT people are so frustrating! The scenario which drives me insane is; someone tells me some popular mainstream narrative about why we should do something in a particular way. Essentially just parroting expert consensus on a similar
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by jongjong 1mo ago
Tariffs are a moral and economic necessity. Every country should have some kind of tariff on foreign goods and services to offset regulatory asymmetries. It's not fair that an entire industry in one country is wiped out and replaced by
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by jongjong 1mo ago
I think for well defined problems, it does a really good job, but if you're starting from scratch and don't know what to ask, it can take you on a wild goose chase in an extremely sub-optimal direction and it never backtracks from
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by jongjong 1mo ago
The root problem here is that I have no voice and have no real friends to join forces with. I literally have zero power to change the system. Wealth inequality puts my interests at odds with those who benefit from the current system. At my
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by jongjong 1mo ago
There is a lot more hustling and bravado. It feels like people don't value knowledge as they used to. It's really hard to avoid mistakes when everyone is subtly covering them up. It feels like a lack of care and I find it demotiva
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by jongjong 1mo ago
I've been hoping for this for my entire software engineering career but it never came. It's messed up. Sometimes it feels like everything in the universe is aligned to ensure that skilled software engineers lead horrible lives ful
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by jongjong 1mo ago
It's part of it but you need good systems thinking in order to write good tests. The kind of thinking which requires years of software engineering experience to acquire. Also the architecture really matters now because a poor architect
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by jongjong 1mo ago
> performance work that used to require a person or team that had a rare set of skills can be done by anyone who can type a few sentences This idea is the reason why software will keep getting slower and less reliable. Because it's
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by jongjong 1mo ago
Yeah I think a bad prompt can create an output which is meaningless. I had such experience reviewing a software architecture diagram generated by Claude. Worse, I noticed that people in an office environment themselves have adopted a more s
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by jongjong 2mo ago
Yes. 100%, the idea that we are all equal under the law is a joke. And the worst part is that it looks that way from the perspective of the people at the top. You only understand that it's not the case if you are not among the privileg
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by jongjong 2mo ago
It all started going downhill once they started calling corporations "legal persons" and gave them all the same right as people, but without all of the constraints associated with having a body. A corporation has more legal rights
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by jongjong 2mo ago
What we have is not capitalism. There is way too much gate-keeping regulation for it to be called capitalism. Just like China does not have communism. They have too much free-market activity and private ownership for it to classify as such.
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by jongjong 2mo ago
> When you put your name on an article that's written by ChatGPT or Claude, you're basically putting a provenance mark on it saying: I take responsibility for this. I haven't written it, but I'm putting my name on it.
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by jongjong 2mo ago
You understand that everything which you value about yourself is not what other people value you for. Also, what you value in others also probably isn't an accurate reflection of who they are either. Everything feels hollow, performati
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by jongjong 2mo ago
They don't produce anything that people like. Everyone using their products is forced to use it. Their Office suite is foisted on governments. For example, several governments in the EU moved off of it starting a few years back... Many
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by jongjong 2mo ago
I was a bit hesitant to put SpaceX on the list as it has provided the government better value for money than NASA when launching rockets and the innovation is real. I also believe Elon is one of the better billionaires. His businesses haven
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by jongjong 2mo ago
The legal system and government these days are mostly tools for oppression of the working class. Most people would be better off without any laws at all and just talking things out with their neighbours, employers and employees; refusing an
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by jongjong 2mo ago
It's pretty obvious now that governments have been propping up the tech sector in many countries. It's a weird industry. Look at the biggest tech companies. They all start out with apparently legitimate products but slowly lose ma
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by jongjong 2mo ago
The outcome I'm clinging to is freedom. Until I have that, nothing else matters.
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by jongjong 2mo ago
Yes. Before I became a dad, I didn't realize how physically and financially constrained people are with regards to number of kids that they have. For me and my wife, our first child took all our time, resources and energy. This was a s
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by jongjong 2mo ago
Yes, for coding, they aren't overthinking enough. I want much more thinking and less code in the PR! Even with the best frontier models, I still have to guide them towards the right solution. The more thinking they do, the less code th
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by jongjong 2mo ago
For coding, this is very interesting because the same incentives were present for humans before AI. Tech companies which had a culture of rewarding complexity would see huge Pull Requests and a lot of unnecessary complexity. I've worke
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by jongjong 2mo ago
Although I will admit that formal verification is looking better now than it ever did, and it's probably easier to generate proofs for those few simple safety-critical systems which benefit from it, I'm still bearish about it for
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by jongjong 2mo ago
People still need a platform to host their app. AWS is far too complicated for the average person. Even with AI to help. The user still needs to get past the registration screen and put their credit card. Most will panic and run as soon as
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by jongjong 2mo ago
I was open minded about it until I did a job search for "Lovable" on the biggest career website in my country and couldn't find a single job related to it in the entire country. For any other tech stack, any major town or cit
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by jongjong 2mo ago
Yes it is, how else do you propose those in power should get rid of dissidents without alerting people?
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by jongjong 2mo ago
Wow. How much does this job pay? Google says $550k to $1.3 million. For that kind of money, my AI paymaster could do no wrong. Imagine going to work and getting paid $2300+ USD per day to sit on your ass all day thinking about ethics withou
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by jongjong 2mo ago
This is not the reason though. The reason is that now there are fewer different kinds of jobs (many roles like manufacturing have moved offshore) and also fewer jobs in terms of numbers and more regulations which prevent competition and sh

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