alt Hacker NewsI am feasting on Schadenfreude as SWEs industry grapples with the messes it made and an uncertain employability in the near future; AI is not 30 years away like when I started.
All the arrogant asocial coder bros cast aside.
All the poorly reasoned shortcuts due to hustle culture and "git pull the world" engineering, startups aura farm on Twitter/social media about their cool sweatshop labor exploiting tech jobs...
Watching AI come around and the 2010s messes blow up in faces... chefs kiss
Hey it's all web-scale though! Good job!
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IT is (was?) one of the very few ways for us in third-world countries to pull ourselves out of poverty by our own bootstraps, since social mobility is quite limited if you lack the right connections. I'm pleased with you being so happy about it being taken away to make more money for billionaires.
Considering the amount of money at stake, Software is a deeply, deeply unserious and careless industry, and a great many practitioners are also deeply unserious and careless people. Yet, somehow the world goes on, these companies siphon up money, and all harms they cause are externalized.