Wealthier and more connected too.
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FWIW, college coaching is generally seen as a more time consuming job because of the recruiting aspect. Every hour they aren't in the office or on the field is spent on the phone with a recruit or visiting one.
Comparing getting an American to uproot themselves from their entire community to move to the Bay Area for a job vs. someone on the other side of the world who is looking to get into America just aren't the same.…
The context from working in a Valley startup funded by YC and run by one of their former executives is they are not seeing the talent they once did despite mining the same sources. There is little self reflection to…
My grandfather’s career was in decline before my father hit adulthood (autoworker, electronics), my father’s career (nuclear control systems engineer) was in decline from the day he established it, and I’ve never…
Sounds like your brain was cooked by sound bites over reason and statistics! Culture war indeed! In fact, we see this now in Silicon Valley where 80% of workers are foreign born. Not a representative group of Americans…
15 YOE, here: Well, I just interviewed between October - Decemeber of last year, and since then, the company I joined has gone full vibe-coding and is changing to AI interviews. So...
If you can point to single product he has made through his "vibe-coding" that isn't for "vibe-coding," I think they would all relent.
I see a lot of folks lamenting how Yegge has ignited a fire under leadership for egoless, factory worker style engineers. I don't think many would care much otherwise, but his post here is lamenting AI is not enough of…
Every Yegge post about AI reads like a Music Man style con job, but he’s got Silicon Valley startup founders salivating and pushing his book to their employees.
I know plenty of engineers with expensive trucks used to carry their families around during the week and haul their hunting bounty home on weekends. In that scenario, the Cybertruck is a total failure. Where's the…
BINGO: the folks buying these things are doing so to virtue signal their politics. If you need a truck for work or hunting, you're still buying a truck, not some Silicon Valley concept car like the Cybertruck.
Open up an Amazon media app and navigate around enough, and you'll encounter a page with all their "Third Party Software Licenses." For instance, here's one for the Amazon Music apps, which includes an FFMpeg license:…
There are no empty slots for med school in America. We turn qualified kids away.
As my manager at Amazon once told me, “Amazon prefers H1Bs because they take more abuse.”
Exactly. The difference is doctors were able to cap the number of doctors graduated, and now we have a shortage. Welp, I know the solution to that.
This article is saying the slowdown started as early as a year ago. That of course opens up the discussion of whether this new revision is political cover for the current administration since they just removed the BLS…
Amazon's hallucinating a fake 1-800 number for me to call is both peak Amazon and peak AI bubble.
Yes, but when Marc Benioff says he laid off thousands of customer service agents, the reporting is "Salesforce cuts tech workers using AI." The narrative in media is a total mess right now, and there are many in VC and…
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FWIW, college coaching is generally seen as a more time consuming job because of the recruiting aspect. Every hour they aren't in the office or on the field is spent on the phone with a recruit or visiting one.
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Comparing getting an American to uproot themselves from their entire community to move to the Bay Area for a job vs. someone on the other side of the world who is looking to get into America just aren't the same.…
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The context from working in a Valley startup funded by YC and run by one of their former executives is they are not seeing the talent they once did despite mining the same sources. There is little self reflection to…
My grandfather’s career was in decline before my father hit adulthood (autoworker, electronics), my father’s career (nuclear control systems engineer) was in decline from the day he established it, and I’ve never…
Sounds like your brain was cooked by sound bites over reason and statistics! Culture war indeed! In fact, we see this now in Silicon Valley where 80% of workers are foreign born. Not a representative group of Americans…
15 YOE, here: Well, I just interviewed between October - Decemeber of last year, and since then, the company I joined has gone full vibe-coding and is changing to AI interviews. So...
If you can point to single product he has made through his "vibe-coding" that isn't for "vibe-coding," I think they would all relent.
I see a lot of folks lamenting how Yegge has ignited a fire under leadership for egoless, factory worker style engineers. I don't think many would care much otherwise, but his post here is lamenting AI is not enough of…
Every Yegge post about AI reads like a Music Man style con job, but he’s got Silicon Valley startup founders salivating and pushing his book to their employees.
I know plenty of engineers with expensive trucks used to carry their families around during the week and haul their hunting bounty home on weekends. In that scenario, the Cybertruck is a total failure. Where's the…
BINGO: the folks buying these things are doing so to virtue signal their politics. If you need a truck for work or hunting, you're still buying a truck, not some Silicon Valley concept car like the Cybertruck.
Open up an Amazon media app and navigate around enough, and you'll encounter a page with all their "Third Party Software Licenses." For instance, here's one for the Amazon Music apps, which includes an FFMpeg license:…
There are no empty slots for med school in America. We turn qualified kids away.
As my manager at Amazon once told me, “Amazon prefers H1Bs because they take more abuse.”
Exactly. The difference is doctors were able to cap the number of doctors graduated, and now we have a shortage. Welp, I know the solution to that.
This article is saying the slowdown started as early as a year ago. That of course opens up the discussion of whether this new revision is political cover for the current administration since they just removed the BLS…
Amazon's hallucinating a fake 1-800 number for me to call is both peak Amazon and peak AI bubble.
Yes, but when Marc Benioff says he laid off thousands of customer service agents, the reporting is "Salesforce cuts tech workers using AI." The narrative in media is a total mess right now, and there are many in VC and…