Yeah that’s how capitalism works. Innovation driven by greed ultimately advances everyone.

This is how I felt when at the hospital during a years long battle with addiction. The hospital was my safe space.

I’ve been a pro software engineer for 30 years.

Colleges are doing a horrible job at relevant skill sets for sure. But also, much of the time what I’m seeking is passion for the field. In today’s world, kids with passion learn everything themselves in their teens and go directly to the workforce because they’d learn nothing at college. College became a place to go if you can’t figure it out yourself, which also means you lack the passion, hence you’re really not a great hire for a small company.

I currently never hire college grads anymore unless they’re older.

Things are different at enterprises. They need so many people that the passion requirement is dropped and you end up with tech leads who are passionate leading armies of worker bees who need constant oversight. This also works but has its own inefficiencies far outside the scope of this comment lol.

That’s how I see the state of the industry. People need to follow passion, not money. Unfortunately the incentives are misaligned by society in general. Not sure how to fix the value problem. For instance, teachers and childcare should be far more expensive and as such pay more. It’s a super heavy regulated sector tho, which is part of the problem.

But I digress. College for a general software engineering job is a complete waste.

That’s what they want. Smaller fed, more state level.

talked about what’s really happening

If you ask me about my country the information and opinion you get will be very different from asking someone else. It doesn’t reveal a truth.

They propose merit based inclusion.

Quick little script I run as a cron job. Script was authored by Claude Code. I’m not home right now but any llm can probably get you 95% of the way there. Remind me in a couple days if you don’t get something. Sorry I’m traveling right now

Edit: some details… it uses the gitea api repos/migrate endpoint after getting a list of repos from the github api. Super simple.

You could prob do in real-time with some webhooks but I don’t need anything like that. I just need a one time migration.

Also, mine doesn’t keep in sync with the upstream yet. I need another process to do that.

I do this. I have an instance of gitea running internally that mirrors any repo I have on github. Super nice for archiving things of importance or even as a bookmark. Sometimes I do it because of fear of censorship like dcma and stuff for software I use.

I’m simply saying that I’m not paying for access to the code. I’m paying for access to the high performance magic pattern machine.

I can and have browsed code all day for 35 years. Magic pattern machine is worth paying for to save time.

To be clear, stackoverflow and similar sites have also been worth paying for. Now this is the latest thing worth paying for.

I understand you have ethical concerns. But that doesn’t negate the usefulness of magic pattern machine.

It feels so wrong that people are paying to get access to code

We pay for access to a high performance magic pattern machine. Not for direct access to code, which we could search ourselves if we wanted.

Wtf is the attitude? They asked legit questions…

Ignore him. He’s just mad and tired because his new bed burned him all last night.

It’s gotta be more than just an outage that did this. Like seriously, your internet goes out and your bed breaks? Why didn’t we hear anything about this before? Certainly these people have had home internet go out?!

I’m just imagining it’s a bug of sorts where the bed can access some things but not some other resource specifically not needs so it got caught in an unexpected condition.

I don’t know about full on prepper, but diversifying into physical metal, crypto, real estate, stocks, bonds/treasuries etc is undoubtedly wise.

How so?

Crypto currencies are a good example.

Meanwhile I live in decentralized finance world where I see it absolutely changing the finance world.

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I’m with ya. I find it a super useful tool all day every day. But that’s because I’m a sme on the stuff I’m working on.

As for your last points, play with the system prompt. “You are a useful machine, not a human. Don’t get emotional like humans. No greeting or salutations. If something can’t be done, say so. Your job isn’t to please me it is to accomplish tasks without prejudice.” Something like that. It really does help.

people using chatbots assume it googles your each question like some kind of scraper

Most do this in their “thinking” step now. And the results are far better as a result, even up to current events.

Background music in any environment.