GaveUp

As Warren Buffett says, “The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.”

This is true, I told my boss "no" to almost everything he told me to do this month and he said I'm due for a promotion soon

Something about being a straight shooter with upper management written all over me

White genocide would be a sick name for a white powdered drug, or a metal band

Yea one of the best devs I've worked with were Latin America. TFW a guy living in the mountains an hour away from Santiago knows Kafka and AWS better than everybody else

I don't think I've seen them work harder though. They were all very strict about 40 hours and were very aware of the class dynamics of boss and worker. Americans who have drank the Kool aid and obsessed with job titles and career prestige worked the hardest in my experience, closely followed by Chinese workers

psychedelics increase neuroplasticity and give you the potential to expand your mind. My first time tripping was a big catalyst to discovering my gender identity

it's a tool, not a solution

Yea, companies are now opening a ton of massive offices in those foreign countries and having actual teams together now instead of trying to tightly integrate a few of them into American teams

I don't think coding became easier, it became more difficult imo but it's just more accessible and the difficulty has shifted to frameworks and massive scalable systems rather than lower level hardware knowledge. In the past only the wealthy could afford the hardware and get to know it deeply but most schmucks now can learn how to use AWS or Databricks

Cope, the offshored coders taking the jobs are just as good at a quarter of the pay

I've actually been to parties in Silicon Valley with rich capitalists before and did a bunch of drugs with them

The capitalists themselves were pretty boring to chat with but I mostly hung out with the hired catering staff + musicians and the capitalists GFs and wives (usually 1-3 decades younger lmao). There were also some models that I think were hired to attend that were also really fun with hang out with

It's not terrible, there was weird performative white people woke shit like the host was a white dude, all his capitalist friends were white dudes, and the only POC was me, the party staff, and a few of the partners of capitalists. And they would do hippie spiritual sound baths, have black people play African drums in African garb while talking about the spirit of Africa, playing Indigenous music and saying how we need to respect their land, have Asian musicians talk about Buddhism and spirituality, etc.

One of the Asian musicians even told me they went by their Asian name to the guests to seem more "oriental". But he told me to just call him Alex LOL

The mansions are usually decorated with both lots of recognizable local and famous art with shit taste but there were cool places to hang out at like the pool, sauna, movie theater, music studio, etc.

I had fun being high af off a cocktail of whatever free drugs I'd get offered at those parties, but again, only because I mostly talked to the non capitalists there

With hobby coding, the journey usually matters more than the destination.

Not always. There are some projects I do for learning, some projects I do to improve my life

It sounds like you need a union more than you need an LLM.

I know but my average coworker has always been multi millionaires with property and half of them are Indian fascists, one quarter Chinese anti- communists, and almost all constantly fearmongering about the homeless in SF

It never was but it inevitably took up a lot of your time anyways to learn the language and various frameworks

I'm not advocating for using it to attempt and write a new feature end to end. Use it to help with your code function by function

It's great for syntax, not good for the where

Ofc I don't NEED it but it saves me a ton of time

At work this means less risk of being fired for low performance

At home this means more time for chores and other interests

Those issues you mentioned are due to the users not understanding the limitations of LLMs and what they're good or bad. It's a tool that requires skill and knowledge to use well and unfortunately a lot of people treat it like it has understanding and reasoning like a human