Petru C.

Work to Live, Don’t Live to Work

every software engineer is just someone who wanted to make video games and quietly gave up on that dream

"We think that with AI we can replace all of our Jr developers in our company" AWS CEO Matt Garman: "That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard"

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CEOs are quietly realizing the AI replacement plan has a problem. Two problems, actually. One: the token costs for running AI agents are now exceeding what they were paying the employees they fired. Two: when the tokens run out, the AI stops. Just stops. No continuity. No workaround. Just a spinning wheel where your workforce used to be. You fired humans to save money and bought a subscription that bills you into a corner. The employees you let go knew what to do when things broke. The AI just invoices you for the outage. And then there’s the permission problem nobody wants to talk about. To do its job, the AI agent needs access. Full access. Your systems, your patents, your contracts, your future plans. Everything you spent years building, handed over to a process that has no loyalty, no discretion, and no skin in the game. You didn’t hire a replacement. You gave a stranger with no soul the keys to everything you own. Enjoy.

You’re born onto a planet you never asked to exist on… and society immediately hits you with: “Okay, now go earn the right to eat, sleep, rest, and have shelter.” Like… zoom out for a second. We’re floating on a rock in infinite space and we created a game where you have to spend most of your life working just to not starve or freeze to death. The whole concept is actually insane when you think about it.

@ThePrimeagen When the dust finally settles, and we all realize the discipline required to properly use agents, I think we will be looking at a productivity increase on the order of a factor of 2 to 5.

@unclebobmartin @ThePrimeagen 🙌

Honestly why stop at 100x engineer? Just use more agents, you literally could be 1000x, 10000x, 100000x just by scaling You could what you use to in an entire year in one second

Meta reached to interview me for a principal role the same week they decided to layoff 8,000 people! I’m sure there was at least 1 out of those 8,000 people who got let go who would’ve been a good fit for the role they wanted to hire me for. A few of my staff engineer friends got let go so I know this is true. Instead they: - axe everybody - treat them like a cost - rehire where there’s pain What ever happened to employee retention? Why do companies expect us to be loyal to them if they don’t even try to retain us when they have hundreds of billions of dollars? It would be cheaper financially for them to retain one of those 8,000 people. It would be cheaper emotionally for the people who got let go too How do these big tech companies expect people to put their blood, sweat and tears into work while also saying, “yeah we’ll cut you at any moment.” I don’t know. The culture around AI and layoffs has gotten unbelievably toxic

I'm not gonna lie, the @Meta layoffs are some of the most dystopian I've ever seen. They got told to work from home, they were sent the emails at 4AM in the morning. Those who weren't impacted have software on their computer that tracks their every move, preparing AI to take their job as well. They're literally training the AI that will eliminate their position as well. Meanwhile, Meta is raking in RECORD PROFITS. I am a massive, unapologetic AI enthusiast. Yet, this is NOT the future I had in mind. I wish for Meta to crash and burn. This is not the way. Literally nobody benefits from this.

35 yaşına geldim, oğlum 6 yaşında. Onu büyütürken anlıyorum ki, bizim jenerasyondaki ebeveynler bizimle ASLA ilgilenmemişler. Bizi büyütmemişler. Yani bir bitkiye bile su veriliyor, etrafındaki otlar temizleniyor, budama yapılıyor vs. Bizle bu kadar bile ilgilenmemişler. Ne bir yönlendirme, ne günlük rutin kazandırma, ne hayata dair eğitim, insan ilişkileri vs. Anneler sadece temizlik yapıp çay içmiş. Babalar işe gidip TV izlemiş. Hemen hemen herşeyi deneme yanılma ile kendimiz öğrenmişiz.

For a few minutes each year, sunlight makes this Yosemite waterfall look like a river of fire.😍

The AI industry just invented a new job. Wait until you hear what it does.

Atlassian's revenue: $1.79 billion last quarter Atlassian's move: fire the engineer who built their infrastructure his move: post a 38-minute breakdown of every system he built, free for anyone to copy what he revealed: > Envoy proxy instead of enterprise load balancers > sidecar architecture for auth, logging, rate limits > DynamoDB + SQS for async provisioning > Packer + SaltStack for automated VM deployments at scale Atlassian charges per employee across 350,000 customers this guy just handed you the enterprise playbook for free save this

An average picture that you save on your phone or PC has a size of around 800 kilobytes. It doesn't do anything, it's just a static image. Now take a game like Elite which had a size of 22 kilobytes on the BBC Micro, or 82 kilobytes on the C64 - and now think about what Braben and Bell turned those 22 kilobytes (or 82 kilobytes) into. A universe with eight galaxies, each containing 256 star systems (for a total of 2,048 planets/systems). Each system also featured unique details: government type, economy, technology level, population, commodity prices, and even descriptive text (e.g., a planet known for "carnivorous arts graduates" or similar quirky combinations). If you still need a bit more help to contextualize that, try this: Elite was smaller than many modern text files or desktop icons, yet it contained (and let you freely explore!) a multi-galaxy-spanning universe that felt vast and limitless. By the way - for thos who will argue "but the universe and stars were created randomly, so that's easy" - I think you wil find that the word is procedurally (with structure), which is not random... and anything but easy. Oh, and by the way, the game also rendered 3D wireframe ships, stations, and planets in real time on processors with 2 MHz. Impressed yet? This is no slight on today's game designers. They work with what they have, and that's okay. But when you think about the worlds that some programmers created with the tools they were given, it sometimes breaks my brain trying to understand how they did it. Elite is a true masterpiece on so many levels. I played the C64 version back in the day, and even 40+ years later it still feels like one of the most incredible programming wonders ever.

Metallica in Bucuresti au poftit la celebrele delicatese locale din Obor!🤠😂🤘🥫

One of the most humbling aspects of writing code for ~30 years is that nothing that I wrote till 3 years ago exists anymore. Almost all of it has been deleted, thrown away or replaced. In fact, almost all the companies/clients/products I worked for are dead by now. If I had built a bridge or a building, it would still be standing. If I had cured a human, maybe they would still be living. But software is vaporware by definition. The "craft" is crafting ephemeral paper effigies. We are more akin to kite makers than bridge builders.

Salvador Dalí adorava jantar bem. Grupos grandes. Mesas longas. Vinhos caros. Os melhores restaurantes de Paris e Nova York. E sempre insistia em pagar a conta. Ninguém desconfiava. Na hora de fechar, ele preenchia o cheque com o valor total, com calma e elegância. Assinava. E então, antes de entregar ao garçom, virava o papel e rabiscava um desenho no verso. Um esboço rápido. Elefantes. Cavalos. Figuras surreais. Assinava embaixo. E entregava o cheque ao estabelecimento. Dalí sabia exatamente o que aconteceria a seguir. O dono do restaurante não descontaria o cheque. Colocaria numa moldura. Exibiria na parede do melhor ponto do salão. Um Dalí original, emoldurado, no restaurante. Valia infinitamente mais do que qualquer refeição. Os cheques com seus desenhos foram todos guardados. E hoje valem uma fortuna. Há relatos de que a prática aconteceu diversas vezes ao longo dos anos, em Paris e em Nova York. Em uma das noites documentadas, no Café de la Rotonde em Paris, Dalí pediu ao garçom uma folha de papel, esboçou um elefante de tromba erguida, assinou embaixo e entregou com desenvoltura. A conta estava paga. E o estabelecimento havia lucrado com o negócio. O que Dalí fez não era só excentricidade. Era uma compreensão precisa de que o valor da sua presença e da sua assinatura já haviam superado o preço de qualquer cardápio. Ele não precisava de dinheiro para pagar. Precisava apenas de um pedaço de papel e de saber o quanto valia. Fontes: ISTOÉ — ArteRef — Revista Bula — Top Melhores

One of the strangest things about America 🇺🇸… You meet people making $300k/year who are anxious, exhausted, medicated, and can barely sleep at night. Then you go to Mexico 🇲🇽… and see some guy running a small restaurant, barely breaking even… but he’s laughing with friends, drinking mezcal at lunch, hugging customers, and sleeps perfectly fine at night.

@taylorotwell Agreed 💯

There has never been a single good software engineer laid off because of AI, maybe not a single employee in general