Pretty solid BDA. Well done, objective achieved.

Cattle, not pets.

But also, stop building stupid and inefficient software. We have these immensely powerful platforms that pervade server farms and consumer devices alike fucking everywhere these days. One of the marked downsides is that now everyone who just wants to finish the MVP and doesn’t care about system efficiency, reliability, and robustness just throws a pile of ass-tier frameworks at the problem and calls it done.

Use more Rust. It’s good for you. It’s good for the practice of computer science writ large. It’s good for the world.

Nice, that’s actually a pretty clean whitehat way to do it.

As someone who worked for years in video transcoding, archiving, streaming, and content management in general: there are absolutely ways to do this efficiently in a self hosted context. You could absolutely build a system that fits your bespoke needs in all of these categories.

Hahahahaha fuck me I missed that. Jesus fucking christ.

Which is why they’re dismantling the educational system here too

You misspelled “shares they could have bought back”

I fucking said it before, and I’ll say it again because it’s literally happening now: orangeboi pardoning tons of the J6 insurrections was the first step in creating an all-American Sturmabteilung.

This is it. It’s happening now. They are going to deputize the proud boys and 3%ers and so on. Get a gun, or get the fuck out. It will only get worse.

Hey so just to be clear: a 200k comp package nowadays is the equivalent of about 81k in 1990.

Put another way: I am doing a good bit worse than my dad was at my age, despite being a pretty solid and experienced software engineer, with an EECS degree, and a lot of devops and system design experience.

This is the collapse of the American social contract. Even people like me who are ostensibly in “great” jobs are treated like code monkeys, and adjusted for inflation, it’s flat or worse than 30-35 years ago. We are doing worse than the generation before us. The American Dream is a nightmare.

My company is doing a big push for LLM/codegen/“everyday ‘AI’”

Sorry - threw up in my mouth a little bit there

And pretty much the only thing I acquiesce to using is the “better autocomplete” feature. Most of the other stuff it seems to offer is essentially useless on a day-to-day basis for me.

And moreover, it’s actively harmful to the entire practice of engineering, because management and execs see it as this magical oracle/panopticon that can magically make people more productive and churn out 10x more bullshit products that they didn’t consult with engineers on than before. It can’t and it doesn’t. But that doesn’t stop them from thinking it can.

And then they stop hiring junior levels because “codegen can do that”. And then you have a generational gap in the entire fucking discipline of coding as an art, because the entire fucking tech industry is doing this. And we haven’t even touched on the ecological and infrastructural (as in: water and power, not “which cloud or bare metal do we put this on”) implications and how they’re being blatantly ignored and hand-waved away, or the comical license and usage violations that are perfectly fine when large companies do but you’ve been a naughty boy if you torrent a fucking movie. But I digress.

good, that means it’s working

I’m gonna be frustrated (though not surprised) if the response is anything other than this.