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@s4rah_dev @deedydas Makes sense, Canada is expensive. Our falldown from 2023 over to 2025 in the comparison below. Lower middle class required 300u$s/mo in 2023, now it's > 1500 u$s, to just make ends meet (no rent!). For the top class, I'd need 50k u$s a year. That'd make me so happy! :D

@CSDevAr @deedydas A comfortable life starts at about 100k before taxes in Canada. Anything below that and it’s really hard to afford a home or go on vacations or do much else but work. 200 is where things get fairly easy and if you’re still complaining then it’s probably not the money.

The vibes in SF feel pretty frenetic right now. The divide in outcomes is the worst I've ever seen. Over the last 5yrs, a group of ~10k people - employees at Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, Nvidia, Meta TBD, founders - have hit retirement wealth of well above $20M (back of the envelope AI estimation). Everyone outside that group feels like they can work their well-paying (but <$500k) job for their whole life and never get there. Worse yet, layoffs are in full swing. Many software engineers feel like their life's skill is no longer useful. The day to day role of most jobs has changed overnight with AI. As a result, 1. The corporate ladder looks like the wrong building to climb. Everyone's trying to align with a new set of career "paths": should I be a founder? Is it too late to join Anthropic / OpenAI? should I get into AI? what company stock will 10x next? People are demanding higher salaries and switching jobs more and more. 2. There’s a deep malaise about work (and its future). Why even work at all for “peanuts”? Will my job even exist in a few years? Many feel helpless. You hear the “permanent underclass” conversation a lot, esp from young people. It's hard to focus on doing good work when you think "man, if I joined Anthropic 2yrs ago, I could retire" 3. The mid to late middle managers feel paralyzed. Many have families and don't feel like they have the energy or network to just "start a company". They don't particularly have any AI skills. They see the writing on the wall: middle management is being hollowed out in many companies. 4. The rich aren’t particularly happy either. No one is shedding tears for them (and rightfully so). But those who have "made it" experience a profound lack of purpose too. Some have gone from <$150k to >$50M in a few years with no ramp. It flips your life plans upside down. For some, comparison is the thief of joy. For some, they escape to NYC to "live life". For others still, they start companies "just cuz", often to win status points. They never imagined that by age 30, they'd be set. I once asked a post-economic founder friend why they didn't just sell the co and they said "and do what? right now, everyone wants to talk to me. if i sell, I will only have money." I understand that many reading this scoff at the champagne problems of the valley. Society is warped in this tech bubble. What is often well-off anywhere else in the world is bang average here. Unlike many other places, tenure, intelligence and hard work can be loosely correlated with outcomes in the Bay. Living through a societally transformative gold rush in that environment can be paralyzing. "Am I in the right place? Should I move? Is there time still left? Am I gonna make it?" It psychologically torments many who have moved here in search of "success". Ironically, a frequent side effect of this torment is to spin up the very products making everyone rich in hopes that you too can vibecode your path to economic enlightenment.

@clothasub Uh el pan casero es lo mejor, despues con cualquier cosa haces un gran sandwich. Esas flautitas lucen crocantes!

No compren pan! Háganlo en casa. Si yo pude, cualquiera puede! En pantalla, uno de crudo y provolone 😋

@s4rah_dev @deedydas Whoa that's a lot :D I'd like a bit more only. I used to do fine, my country used to be way cheaper even with inflation.. now it's dollar-expensive, sadly.

@deedydas If you’re not happy with $200,000 per year you will never be happy. I’ve seen it time and time again. People think wealth will make up for a lack of genuine friends or respect from family but it truly does not.

Playing around with WordPress 7.0 RC4 in my local. Added a simple widget just for fun. Of course it's a brave new AI world with the new Automattic native plugins

@CarlosBR264 @TuToxiAnitha Una coca bien frappé diría un colega cocacolero :D

@TuToxiAnitha Coca-Cola y punto.

Cuál es la bebida perfecta para este plato ?

@s4rah_dev Ha, similar temperature tomorrow in Buenos Aires, in the other hemisphere and the opposite season. It makes you think..

Late 1994! I got this magazine years later, but If you saw me back then, when CA-VO was released, me a Clipperhead, mostly invested in Clipper Summer 87, well I would have probably torn this apart like my cat did :D

@s4rah_dev Oh makes sense. The non-tech knowledge is what matters as foundation. It's like coding an Accounting Application without an accountant (been there) :D

@CSDevAr Yup exactly. I think the primary issue was that it was a tech company doing fashion instead of a fashion company integrating tech. Lululemon is probably in the best position to capitalize on it

@coderazalf @lovelacecoding Weak currency here too, and I agree, I use it for chat coding only, and I use the free ones for other stuff.

I'm 20$ only max, I can't afford more cause my country has weak currency. Sometimes I turn subs off and switch to free tier only like Github Copilot students pack, or antigravity. I thought the same way, developers somehow spend way more than that? Am i lagging behind or it's just that they're wasting so much on AI.

How much money do you spend on AI subscriptions? I'm at 20 USD a month but I feel like a lot of developers spend way more than that.

@lovelacecoding I bit the bullet for the first time and I went for Claude monthly (can't afford the year). I want to see when/if it abandons me at some point :) It will be hard to stop it if necessary.

@lovelacecoding @iupdate Absolutely.

@iupdate I am 27 years old and still don't understand why people love iOS so much. It annoys me. I'm staying with Android.

I am 28 years old and still can’t comprehend how someone would willing use Android over iPhone

5 days to go! make.wordpress.org/core/2026/05/1…

@doraphotography @arielgustavo4 Por alguna mala toma de Edesur el otro mes me vino 385k de luz; ahora 50k pero ya prendi la estufa.. con miedo. Lo peor es no tener idea de que podes esperar.

@arielgustavo4 Espera la factura del gas, ahora se desquitan por ahí😡

Me vino 28 mil de luz, está bien?

@arielgustavo4 50k es lo minimo que me viene, asi que si, es nada.

@CityCoderUS Nothing is forever! Me too, I had a strong career in Paintbrush all lost!

Ten years ago my arrogant photoshop editor laughingly said I will always need his talent and can’t afford getting rid of him! Today, I fired him. Thanks AI.

@marinitadz Si esencial! cada tantos meses se me desintegra y la tengo que cambiar (gracias por el recordatorio por cierto). Mi hermana tiene una electrica que esta buena, pero andá a usarla cuando se corta la luz, ademas para las tostaditas chiquitas no va bien.

La unica tostadora que sirve. Adaptable, nunca te deja a pata. Calentas una super rodaja de pan o muchos chipacitos. Larga vida.

@s4rah_dev "A group of chill strangers follow along" reminds me of that song "It's not important for you to know my name Nor I to know yours If we communicate for two minutes only It will be enough" youtube.com/watch?v=vI8AOk…

@s4rah_dev Oh absolutely. It's like my version of Gandalf's Pensieve, I just throw tech stuff off my head :) And in Facebook (where only the closest still read) I share the other, perhaps deeper stuff.

@AlexWhiteGB @thepizzaday_ Oh man, that is Heaven!

@CSDevAr @thepizzaday_ Yesterday drove through a part of Spain where it’s olive trees as far as the eye can see in all directions. Wife turned to me, do they grow them every year?, darling you don’t do crop rotation like wheat with olive trees ffs.

Todos te odian, yo te amo