What about a implant that can be placed into your palm? It can carry everything about you and be tied to your pulse so that if you have a panic attack or something as you are being robbed it wipes everything but your name and basic information.

yikes this looks awful, unless this is the new mass market Ferrari that's going to start at $30,000

That is fun though.

I hated the old world where some boomer-mentality "senior" dev(s) would take days or weeks to deliver ONE fucking thing, and it would still have bugs and issues.

I like the new world where individuals can move fast and ship, and if there are bugs and issues they can be resolved quickly.

The boomer-mentality and other mids get fired which is awesome, and orgs become way leaner.

Just because there are excess of CS majors and programmers doesn't mean we need to make benches that they can keep warm.

That has more to do with where you work than AI.

Some places have military grade paperwork where mistakes are measured in millions of dollars per min. Others places are 'just push it in fix it later'.

AI is not going to change that. That is a people problem. Not something you can automate away. But you can fire your way out of it.

For sure. I was replying to people not in that, it seems from the commenters here that is where they (and me) have worked or are working now. Whether it is their own company or some other place.

I've only ever worked at places that are at the bleeding edge and even there we had total slackers.

That’s totally orthogonal to what the OP is responding to though. Military software can be bleeding edge as well as extremely susceptible to error prone code which means you need to test more. Similar are the cases with financial softwares which are usually written in ocaml etc. observing your ability to comprehend, the places where you work must be “bleeding” profusely.

> I hated the old world where some boomer-mentality "senior" dev(s) would take days or weeks to deliver ONE fucking thing, and it would still have bugs and issues.

What does that even mean? Are you begrudged manager or enthusiastic youngster who is upset that “boomers” are not killing themselves by juggling thousands of tasks ADHD-style?

I guess I am a markdown hater, but I don't like it. Markdown feels too much like hand writing your own html, when you have to put in tags, but like html it suffers from lack of layout control, which is why they invented CSS, but you don't get CSS control in markdown. If you start adding that, you end up with LaTex, and I don't know anyone who actually enjoyed writing serious documents in Latex. It was fun in the beginning, but it quickly became tiresome and I found myself not being very productive.

Doing layout is not easy. Programming layouts well requires real expertise, which is why most layout engines expose a gui and let you deal with larger text components graphically. Maybe someone else will come up with a usability innovation here, but I'm not aware of it, and markdown certainly doesn't have that capability.

You do know that you don't need to write markdown syntax right?

There are plenty of UI editors where they give you the basics for formatting and inserting stuff.

Markdown is fairly portable, and with AI it is easy to generate and share as well.

How do you do nested tables in markdown?

For the gaps they'll find, I'm sure they can use open source alternatives considering they're getting away from proprietary software.

If not, they can adapt.

Why not just not compare to others because it’s easy to game anything?

Just look for patterns and then act out of self interest. Nobody is coming to save you.

I’m no high IQ person but if I can figure out how to get a STEM job without STEM degree, make money by getting lucky at a unicorn, invest and sell for profit and invest again (only losers HODL so others can take profits), then there’s really no excuse why someone else can’t.

And I’m originally from a country that has like 70 IQ nationally or so it is said. So I’m not a genius, maybe the only quality I have that makes me different is I don’t know how to quit until I meet my goal.

More people should stop crying and be a man. Our ancestors literally survived against nature and each other so we could post here on HN. I don’t mean being able to lift 500lbs like a caveman either.

Exercise your brain, it gets stronger too because I have a hard time understanding concepts sometimes, but taking steps to break it down and digest it in pieces helps me. Takes a bit longer but hopefully you have tomorrow.

I can't tell if this is satire

MENA slop

Whatever you need to tell yourself to cope!

I tried to help, but maybe I should have given you two a tissue box instead.

Your only goal should be to solve a problem. Everything else will fall into place.

If you can’t do that then go work for someone who is solving a problem. Learn from them.

You can solve your own problems. Maybe it affects many others too. You can work in industry a bit and you’ll find dozens of problems. Maybe help one customer who has that problem, and go from there.

You need something to make progress. It’s 2026 and you can’t just have an idea and get paid.

These days unless you’re talking about something involving massive regulatory changes and you have deep connections (and access $$$), you need something you can show.

When you solve a problem you will make money. If you take that statement and instead try to attack it from a hundred angles, yngmi. My 2c.

Start small. Grow.

You sure it's not your outlook? You sound quite disenchanted and even bitter about the topic. I am sure you helped far more people than you think. Focus on gratitude.

Or at least like, don't spread bad vibes on the topic.

I meet people like this irl. I block them.

Do you think some of them are honestly like that? I can never quite figure out how many levels of irony^H^H^H delusion there are. Spoken as a person that would totally have his job, but just because it most certainly pays plenty and is likely fun to do.

People who use AI to write stuff meant to be read by people is L.

Idc if it’s a text message or some low stakes shit. Or marketing spam even because I get it. But this is where I draw the line.

Yeah you can get an AMD 9454P with 1TB of memory and 20TB of redundant NVME storage for like 1000$ a month, its crazy how cheap compute and storage is these days.

If people are building things which actually require massive amounts of data stored in databases they should be able to charge accordingly.

It's not really my experience that cloud resources are very cheap.

I guess I’m talking about a company actually making money.

I would much rather spend 5k per month to make 1 million, keeping things extremely simple.

They are expensive compared to buying server and running it 24/7

They are cheap if you tiny fraction of server use for $20/mo or have 50 engineers working on code