bigludinski

@allenholub Sound advice! You don't need to be laid off to apply it. It also applies to your side project or any project aimed at providing you with financial independence and freeing you from the monotone routine of the "yesterday I did X and today I will do Y" ceremonials.

The solution to layoffs is starting your own company. It is not as difficult as people think. You do not need (or want) VC funding. You do not need (or want) a large, complex product or to solve a huge problem. You do not need AI. (Remember, you're not selling to VCs, so you don't need a buzzword-based product.) You do not need millions in revenue—replacing your salary is enough. Solve a tiny problem that impacts your actual life. Don't do a "great idea!" You don't want a "blockbuster" product. You don't even need a business plan. (Remember, no VCs.) Things like "risk" don't matter—you don't have anything better to do with your time if you're not working. Then build it in the simplest way possible—no need for elaborate frameworks or a 100K-customer architecture (but you do want an architecture that can grow incrementally over time—take a look at DDD). You probably don't even need a database, at least not at first. Make it web-based because that runs everywhere (you do need it to look good and work well on a phone, though). By all means, use AI to help write the code if that speeds you up, but we're talking small, here. An AI assist won't make that much of a difference. Then get it out there. Use social media. Go to meetups. Find people who have the same problem that you do. Give your solution away (once you have customers who can give you feedback, and you improve the product based on that feedback, you can think about selling it). Many engineers are scared of "sales" and "marketing." Don't be. Talk to friends. Write about your problem and how to solve it. The smaller the problem, the sooner the revenue, so get crackin'!

Bear in mind that even after the dot-com bubble burst, we were still making websites. In fact, after the outsource-to-foreign-climes madness had worn off, wages were at a premium because a lot of people had left the industry in the interim, and the people who were left could ask for the stars. I expect the same to happen with AI. LLMs are an interesting and useful technology that's not about to disappear. There will be good-paying jobs for people who know how to wrangle that tech. The bubble, however, is all about trying to make that tech appear better than it actually is through brute force. No number of GPUs and no number of patched-on kluges that hide specific limitations (like the number of r's in "raspberry") can correct fundamental limitations in the underlying theory and thinking, however. Only fundamental research can do that, and that research will happen (and is now happening), though given the current US government's hatred of education and research, probably in other countries. But… This is not the programmer apocalypse that some claim, but a lot of investors in the brute-force strategy being pursued by outfits like OpenAI will not be very happy in a year or so. That money will simply evaporate, and it will be an economic catastrophe. However, companies will start hiring again simply because work needs to get done, and they can't get that work done cost-effectively with vibe coding and no people. They'll have to pay through the nose for those programmers, but that's just poetic justice. It's fine by me.

@unclebobmartin Sounds a lot like a 1999 repeat

You all understand that the AI bubble is about to pop, right? And when it does all the hiring managers, who have been holding their breath waiting for the AI miracle, will take a deep breath, realize in horror that they are badly understaffed, and start hiring programmers with reckless abandon.

@tpgeneva Palexpo direction aéroport, premier distributeur. Ce matin le message n’était plus affiché.

@bigludinski Bonjour, Merci pour votre signalement. Afin de pouvoir investiguer, pourriez-vous nous préciser l’arrêt où l’écran a affiché ce message ? Merci d’avance Belle journée

@tpgeneva moyen de paiement défectueux ou tentative de piratage?

RT @ClemenceDibout: 🇺🇸 cette image du QG de campagne de Kamala Harris ce soir.

@Grady_Booch What about the opposite? Tons of abstractions. Deep inheritance hierarchies. Pedantic OOP. Code crammed with design patterns.

@simas_ch But you can also build a lot more complex apps.

Unnecessary complex!

Are all prices on @chrono24 artificially high? The same watch is valued much less on @watch_charts. Dealers on chrono24 probably come up with a commonly agreed price higher than the market price.

When your Quality Control fails swissinfo.ch/eng/life-aging…

@Grady_Booch Also true in the case of cloud providers.

@Grady_Booch And we all know how long it takes to complete the remaining 20%.

@simas_ch Same remark for the hexagonal architecture.

After a while with onion/clean Architecture I see no benefit compared to a layered architecture because at runtime you always have layers. It’s just an unnecessary mental shift.

Once a corporation gets above a certain size, the odds of finding any agility in the org are minuscule, and the odds of them changing to add agility are even lower. Pretty much nothing I say is aimed at these sorts of orgs. They're a lost cause.

This is freaking awesome. Snapdragon X Elite running Linux on a Tuxedo laptop before the end of 2024? THE PROPHESY DRAWS CLOSER!

Wait till he gets a load of COSMIC.

Incomplete camouflage

@simas_ch Geneva - Zurich is long enough no?

@bigludinski Do we have long train rides in Switzerland?

Long train rides are perfect for writing or programming.