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by ponector 1y ago
Right, it was Trump who allowed IT services to be outsourced for the last two decades.
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by ponector 1y ago
That is not so hard. Try to buy/build something really big and price tag easily goes to 1bn. A skyscraper. An eco-friendly village. A ship. A spacecraft.
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by ponector 1y ago
Having small GDP per capita means people are poor. Having poor people is even better to the war. Russia is economically weak, but can continue this war for 5 years or even more, paying immense price for it, sacrificing their feature.
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by ponector 1y ago
And hire someone to sue yourself!
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by ponector 1y ago
Taxi driver in USA is 5 times more productive than taxi driver in Indonesia!
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by ponector 1y ago
But how many people are there? Comparing to 100k in Meta? To millions from Indian body shops?
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by ponector 1y ago
Their title and salary are serious, though.
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by ponector 1y ago
That is an American mindset: your job makes who you are. Like you have no identity without a job. Mainly because without a job you loose health insurance, housing, everything.
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by ponector 1y ago
Ok, then 10% of the current IT workforce will be allocated to the critical applications. The rest 90% will be replaced with Claude SuperGPT CODER 6.2. Like ~100k people in Meta - nothing critical there, right? Many thousands could be replac
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by ponector 1y ago
>>While we engineers understand how to judge and evaluate AI solutions Usually no one really care. Target is to close a ticket, not to make a good software. "Works fine on my machine" - heard this many times. But user don&#x
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by ponector 1y ago
I don't think this tax change had huge impact. Two reasons: 1. Layoffs and slowdown are global, not only in US. 2. Expenses are still deductable, but over longer period. It makes no difference for big corporations.
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by ponector 1y ago
There are many examples of buggy and vuln-ridden non-AI-hallucinated software. Never been a rush to fix them.
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by ponector 1y ago
There is a special role for that: Test Engineer. However, testing is a cost center and is underfunded in most companies.
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by ponector 1y ago
But FAANGs lease people from bodyshops which are abusing the system.
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by ponector 1y ago
>>had 60 days to find another visa sponsor H1B is not so bad. Many IT people I know came to the US by L1 visa. That is a true modern slavery! Don't like the work? Laid off? Go home, no other options.
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by ponector 1y ago
Societies and states have been doing fine without medicines, without electricity and with slavery for centuries. Doesn't mean we need to get back there.
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by ponector 1y ago
>> The #1 thing I would tell any young person who would listen is that if you want them, finish having children by like 27 Unless one is from a wealthy family, following this advice basically means to give up a career. Being a mom wit
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by ponector 1y ago
I my experience, religious people are perfectly fine with contradicted worldview. Like christians are very flexible in following 10 commandments, always been.
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by ponector 1y ago
Cost as US developer or Indian developer?
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by ponector 1y ago
Ubi will make no difference, as it will just hike prices for everyone. Free child-related services could make a difference, together with heavily subsidized housing, healthcare and transportation for people with kids
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by ponector 1y ago
Did he specify the calendar? It's now a year of 1447 according to one.
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by ponector 1y ago
The next stage of offshoring: companies offshored to Eastern Europe are now offshoring to India due to substantial rise of salaries and costs in EE.
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by ponector 1y ago
Good luck to receive security clearance for that. Even Cursor is not allowed, though everyone is using it with private account.
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by ponector 1y ago
>> toxic positivity I've once heard the company mandated more positive tone. To avoid words like "issue". Not an issue, it's an opportunity! Okay, we have a critical opportunity in production!
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by ponector 1y ago
How can AI search into documentation, if the documentation is a thousands of obsolete and contradicting Jira tickets, few outdated Confluence pages with mail attachments and handful of excel files on SharePoint?
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by ponector 1y ago
Hiring is slower, salaries for open positions are down as well. But the reason is more offshoring to cheaper locations than AI. As of AI, I've been asked to test a partial rewrite of the current UI to the new components. For a few week
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by ponector 1y ago
Not at all. Corporation always pays as little as possible. Unless we are talking about CEO levels...
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by ponector 1y ago
Isn't it about equal responsibilities? No one is talking about women should be serving in the assault infantry together with men. But there are many different jobs to be filled within army which are equally suitable men and women: pret
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by ponector 1y ago
Russia had 3 times more people than Ukraine but cannot win the war, only grind few hundred meters per day and thousands of KIA+WIA daily. They have people to continue do it for the next 10 years, but economy will likely collapse sooner(3-5
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by ponector 1y ago
>> every pro maternity policy has failed to bring TFR Because that policies are bluff to say politicians support family without actually spending much of the budget. Like give a 100€ rebate for a childcare while it costs 1000€ per mon

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