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aeva 13h ago

@ashalah @rygorous there's a very real possibility that the software engineer salary will deflate significantly possibly all the way down to a minimum wage if the chat bots improve such that most programming careers are reduced to a few chat bot supervisors (or if the money decides it doesn't care that they're not fit for purpose and does it anyway). you wont be able to support your family on that, and you should come up with a plan for that *now* and not after it happens.

Tom Forsyth 14h ago

@rygorous @aras I do wonder if I'm a little more resilient because of my terrible memory. I forget stuff all the time. What I mainly remember is that I *did* know something, and that I *could* know it again. Actually knowing it right now - I'm perfectly used to that not being the case for plenty of things.

Fabian Giesen 16h ago

@aeva This is not about the tools themselves. There's _so many_ problems there, and much has been written about it, but that's not what I'm getting at.

The thing that's _really_ getting to me is just how much of the SW world, including so many people around me, is going "oh yes, finally" about this.

I've always felt pretty alone in my caring about things the way I do but was telling myself that I did find my people who care about things the same way in the end. Evidently, no.

Fabian Giesen 18h ago

@aeva I want to understand, and to be understood.

That's not the only thing about me, but it's a core tenet about my personality and my construction of identity.

Almost everything I do flows from that in one way or another.

That's why I default to these long, rambling info-dumps, for example.

skategoat 🐐 🇵🇸15h ago

The fixing tiny bug experience of OSS Rust projects is wonderful, mainly thanks to cargo and rustup.

#art #armadillo #sketch #DetoxDoodles #sciart #InkArt

Joy 18h ago

Detox Doodles!

These animals are from my 100-day journey to swap scrolling for sketching: https://www.joyousjoyness.com/pages/detox-doodles

This page is all about armadillos, little dinosaurs!

Rob Ricci 18h ago

Scenes from the train

Lety Does Stuff 23h ago

perhaps men are too emotionally erratic to have in positions of power