Silly curiosity - what's that "BEAM-appreciator" in that bio? I could only think of a protein brand name (that too not from my geography) shortened as BEAM :/
Do these tech overlords find it really hard to resist the “pitching in” part even after they’ve already deployed millions and billions in PR? Maybe just the itching thumb? Yeah, maybe.
> AI driving faster scientific progress and increased productivity will be enormous; the future can be vastly better than the present
And then nothing substantial after this proclamatory hot-take. So let’s just choose to believe le ai propheté.
It’s like quick instructions to PR team style written post (and then asking an LLM to inflate it) from the comforts of a warm and cozy Japanese seat.
Definitely not written by Genini at least. Usually does a better job than this. Well, at least like Zuck he eats his own food that he killed.
Will be looking forward to titles like “The Vehement Duality” &c in the near future.
Huh, this reminds me of the Photos app. Apple completely broke iOS Photos in the last update.
I really hope apps like Ente can step up and get better and native, offer desktop backup + sync both as well. But then there's always the chance that Apple will just find a way to shut them down. or reject their updates, just like they did in the past.
Anyway, I guess we'll have to wait and see what else they manage to screw up with this "move."
This was weirdly exciting and depressing at the same time :)
What are the chances in trying to go for a non-STEM Masters/PhD (or higher studies in general) in Norway (or one of "those" countries) after studying E for UG and then working in E for more than a decade (in the third world) and having no other experience at all? Or anywhere for that matter? Is there a way to go about it? (Now, this might sound entitled, and I apologise if it does, but without having to pay (at least) tuition for that higher education)
> This was weirdly exciting and depressing at the same time :)
And, depending on how far north you go, should be taken seriously. In Iceland, out of my exchange students cohort of ~10, once the winter hit, one had to escape home and two were hospitalised after too much drinking. It can be a really tough experience, especially when you don't have close friends/family to contact and lose track of time.
Yeah, not all humans do well in the dark. I wonder if this happens for some of the submariners ? Maybe on boomers (the nuclear powered missile submarines) since those spend a very large proportion of each mission underwater ?
I expect I'd be fine with this because I don't normally interact much with sunlight, the windows in my home have the blinds down 24/7, etc. But you can't really tell for sure without trying it.
I think that there is some options at University of Oslo for example. I work in geophysics and ML, so I don't know so much. But at some point I entertained the idea of doing a PhD in science fiction which is an option at UiO. There is also a large linguistics department and social sciences faculty as well as two centers for education research.. I imagine there are many options, but I think it is hard for me to know since I don't do that kind of work.
I have been unemployed for almost a year now (it started with a full division layoff and then no willingness or motivation to look for work at the time). Seeing the way AI can do most of the native app development (which is what I did) code I wrote I am losing almost any motivation to even try now. But I have been sleeping the best after college (where I slept awesome) and I have been working out, watching lots of theatre and cinema and playing lots of sports (two of them almost daily), reading a lot of literature, lots of podcasts. I guess I will just wait for my savings to run dry and then see what option then I'd have and what I would not if at all. I know the standard thing to do and say is "up-skill", "change with the times" etc and I am sure those have merit but I just feel I am done with the constant catch up, kind of checked out. I don't give a fuck anymore maybe, or I do and I am too demoralised to confront it.
Feeling exactly the same way. And TBH this comes from a feeling that we never respected our profession and our fellow engineers. I mean I know no other engineering discipline where best practices and tools were changing every 3 years. I also know no other engineering discipline where getting older is anathema instead of a badge of expertise. We behave like we were in fashion business rather than engineering.
So. Yes. On one hand I'm shiting my pants because that's the only way I know of making some money. On the other hand I'm saying to myself, to hell with it all.
PS: There should be a sister thread to this with alternative careers for former SW engs.
Honestly this is my plan. I'm waiting for my time in this career to run out. In the mean time I'm trying to aggressively save whatever way I can.
This industry is going to shrink. And that's ok. We had our time. I wish it was longer and I wish I made more, but I don't think I ever saw myself here forever.
Kudos to those who made a whole career off of this.
I'm in my mid 30s with a wife and kid and I'm mostly hoping I can complete my immigration to the US before my time in this career ends.
Then, I might pursue starting a business or going back to school with the savings and hopefully my wife can be employed at the time in her completely unrelated field and cover us until I can figure out what to do next.
I'm not sad about this. I am happy I have tried to live frugally enough to never buy my own hype or believe that my salary is sustainable forever.
A part of it for me is that I never really loved building software. I might have ADHD and that might be a big factor, but honestly it was never what excited me.
The biggest fallacy I see a lot of people buying into is that LLMs being good enough to replace software developers means they're AGI and the world has other problems. I never quite bought that. I think software developers think too highly of themselves.
But they're also not technically wrong. Ya, a LLM can basically replace a family doctor and most internal medicine physicians. But the path to that happening is long and arduous due to how society has setup medics. Software devs never fought hard enough for their profession to be protected. So we are just the easiest target, same thing that happened to a lot of traders before.
If you're mid career like me, just get ready for the idea that your career is probably much shorter than you thought it will be and you will need to retrain. It will suck but many others have done it.
Yup, doing that. Accepted another interview (second) - it's a take home assignment first - "minor" angel round startup. The project is, not 98% or 99.7%, but 100% the exact product they are pitching which is shady. I am still planning to work on it though, but it may not work out because I am pretty sure I wouldn't hand over the source to them just like that. Anyway, let's see. Thank you.
This is something I have been thinking and this sounds great. I will do that. But such jobs are mostly abroad (not in my geography) and it makes things tricky.
What did you change to if I may ask? Did you change while you were still at a company, or took the new job/role in the new tech/domain as the first job after the gap? I recently cleared an interview at a startup (all rounds) for a backend dev role but they offered almost 60% of the last salary I was getting (let alone a raise), citing I have zero experience in backend so they will give me slightly above beginner salary.
You seem to have landed in a great place to work. Congratulations!
Thank you. That indeed sounds like an idea. I am going to work on it. I am also planning to actively try to work on some well-used open source app where there is need for contributors.
I just request closure of my Standard Chartered Priority account because they won’t let me proceed to dashboard after login unless I gave in provided them with system notification permission on iOS. Customer support said they talked to the IT team and they were it is for “customer’s safety” and then they also added - by that permission they get “the device” and that is also for safety. They also said no customer had raised this issue before.
If only Apple had made reporting of such problems transparent I would have reported this.
Anyway I loved that he has reposted a post from musicbraniz https://bsky.app/profile/musicbrainz.org/post/3lnhvp23jc22l/...