YOLO

Beautifully put, in four letters.

Cannot wait for the pelican for this one

That's not been my experience. Most professional software is just a CRUD app in one form or another.

Yes and it’s probably better for society as a whole that all of those can now be vibe coded by someone who is not a full time developer.

Linter linters, obviously

It's linters all the way down

This is awful. I got so much use out of it!

Ok but you do want the people building your home to be experts at building homes, yes?

No house I ever lived in was ever made by experts. The apartment building I grew up in was all built by minimum wage guys that may or not even speak the language of the building overseer and had zero specific training or certifications. Some architect somewhere did the plans for a standard building, which the developer purchased and just used.

Then the only "experts" (not even close, just a guy with a form and some technical training) are the building inspectors who come at the end to verify if some stuff is done up to code.

Other than the original architect who draw the plans that got used for many buildings and the electrical engineer that cleared the electrical, no experts were involved. This is basically how the whole city and most of the country was built.

There's no expert mason or painter or whatever involved. Just a dude that can hold a paint roller. That's the same as going from a craftsman programmer to some dude with claude. Individual quality goes down, but more importantly price goes down way more and so many more people get access to much better quality than having nothing.

Worst way to grow the company by 11 people

I assume Meta has backdoor access.

Then why end the more insidious route rather than stay the course?

This has always been my assumption as well.

Then why end the feature? Would it not be better to maintain the facade and continue to benefit from it?

If they formally sunset the feature, there’s less of a case for someone to sue.

One can’t say they didn’t know or consent to their group chat info being used for training data if there’s no reason to assume your chat data is private

But what if all the good jobs are only in hell?

Then it seems you have a flawed concept of what constitutes the "good jobs".

a good job is one that brings you joy and improves your creativitiy, they by definition can't be in hell. if you mean well paying, that's a different thing entirely, ditch the fancy car and adjust your lifestyle

I have a fancy car? News to me. I'm just trying to pay my bills and live a sensible and reasonably comfortable life. These days that requires a lot of money.

mind you given the topic of the article I took the jobs in question to mean largely in the software industry, not talking about minimum wage workers here.

But as a programmer I am quite baffled when peers my age, often without kids struggle in this kind of way. My essentials are rent, food, metro card, library card. When I hear people who make what I make say that living requires a lot of money that usually includes two dozen subscriptions, a few grand in useless electronics per year and ordering food most of the week.

So, are you suggesting that an acceptable lifestyle would be an empty studio apartment with nothing inside of it, no pets, no partner, no meaningful possessions?

Personally, I have pets, a partner, and thoughtfully selected and meaningful possessions. I don't collect crap, and nothing I own or do is particularly extravagant. But I'm not exactly living an ascetic life either. A pretty typical lifestyle, I'd say. And I don't consider any of this a moral failure, if that's what you're getting at. Though admittedly it's not as affordable as living like a monk.

I don't advocate living like a monk. I play in a band and play football every weekend, play chess, you can go to church, most of that is practically free.

I'm very much in favour of participating in culture, real culture though. You can ditch the 1k Taylor Swift tickets, Disneyland visits, and high end gym for the 20 bucks local jazz festival.

I think the people who live socially like ascetic monks are ironically the people who build themselves a home gym for 10k and then complain about not having any time for friends because everything is too expensive

Well, I'm neither of those extremes. Like most people, I'm somewhere between two ends of a spectrum. ;-)

That's an excuse you made for yourself to feel better.

Leave the city.

Sssh, don't give away the secret.

I'd rather be poor in the city than rich and bored outside of it.

What is sensible in a literal economic recession if not “boring”?

Anyway..

I'll be in my home for longer than the recession lasts. Seems a little silly to sell it and walk away from my hard-earned lifestyle (which I quite enjoy) to save some money for just a few years.

A job from hell is a bad job by definition.

> moving to a different workplace is always an option.

This is, very often, not a practical option for many people.

Have you seen the market lately?