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O_o

Doesn’t have to be porn videos. We watch tons of movies and TV shows where the actors have died long ago.

It makes me wonder how these 5 senior engineers came to found a company that works like that. Do they not like writing the code? Do they have dreams of being rich? Do they believe the product they will produce is so essential that the process doesn’t matter?

I started programming when I was 14 years old, and turned 34 this year. That makes about 20 years.

Figuring out the syntax of a new language, the satisfaction of getting something to compile, and getting the “perfect” dev environment on my Arch Linux install was a lot of fun. I wouldn’t trade that experience for anything, but at this point I’ve gotten all the fulfillment I’m going to get from it.

Even before AI agents came along, I had already moved on to caring about the impact of the software: benefit to society (for my open source contributions); revenue to company (for half my day job); learning business skills to improve my earning potential (for the other half of my day job).

I would delegate the actual coding to junior engineers, and spend most of my time designing the higher level architecture and everything else needed to herd them into delivering the high level business objective.

Unfortunately, the current generation of AI agents (Opus 5, GPT 5.6 Sol) can do a somewhat similar role to those juniors. They don’t have the human element that made it fun to mentor the juniors, but they also don’t have feelings so I can give them feedback without worrying about coming off as a condescending asshole.

Dunno if that’s helpful at all to you, but if you’re genuinely wondering why a decent chunk of senior engineers are sticking around in the AI world, then there’s one perspective.

The only way I see this ending is Juinor wages plummeting and turning into unpaid internships or paid (the other way) ‘educational programs’.

I do have a slightly more positive note on that. Universities are slow to adapt their curriculums to new technologies, but they will eventually care that they’re producing graduates that provide so little value to companies that they’re unemployable.

They’ll begin to produce graduates that are the equivalent of today’s mid level and senior engineers. While I don’t know exactly what kind of education can instill in 4 years the essence of what took me decades to learn, I do know that pretty much every generation of humans have surpassed their parents so far. So I have every confidence you kids will figure it out.

Not gonna lie - expected there to be more ass involved in “back end”

It offers both. But if you do it remotely from the owner’s phone, it doesn’t require the passcode. Presumably in case you forget the passcode you set in the car.

And once you build the functionality to turn it off remotely, you may as well allow turning it on as well. For example, if you realize you forgot to enable valet mode shortly after handing over the keys, you can still do so.

I hate to break it to you, but pretty much all modern cars have this level of remote controls - even if they’re not exposed to owners.

https://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-highway/

that feature is called “Valet mode”. It’s specifically to stop valets going joy-riding on your $150k car that was faster than most Ferraris back when that feature got added.

Basically, the person that owns the car can always kick out other people’s access.

If she legally registered that vehicle under her partner’s name (instead of her’s), then she’s shit out of luck.

I hate to break it to you, but most modern cars have this level of remote controls - they’re just not exposed to owners.

https://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-highway/

You can derive the public key from the private key

The thing about software is that it’s so big - no one expert can cover even a small fraction of “software”. If you’re a kernel driver developer, you might benefit from having some “automated experts” available in CSS/HTML for the pattern recognition they can offer.

I find it amusing how most experts think AI is great for every field except theirs.

What does it mean now?

I bought it specifically because its soundtrack was absolutely amazing (not knowing anything about the game itself).

Unfortunately, it did not play as well as it sounded 😿

Honestly, the Linux ecosystem is so fragmented that Win32 is the best API for targeting Linux.

Honestly, the Linux ecosystem is so fragmented that Win32 is the best API for targeting Linux.

They pay like $700k/year. At that rate I could probably retire in 5-10 years and spend the rest of my life working on open source projects that actually improve the world full time!

Ended up declining the interview, but I considered it very seriously. So I can understand why other people might accept.

Microsoft’s focus is entirely on business customers. Xbox doesn’t align at all with any of their other business strategies.

I’m sure they’d love to sell it off, but it’s like one of the biggest (if not the actual biggest) publishers in the world so I don’t think there’s any company that can afford to buy it.

They could split it up and sell it off in pieces, but they’re not sure if Wall Street will reward them for it. So the best bet for them is to keep it as a buffer for layoffs whenever they need to raise their stock price.

The bullshit part it that our current economic system makes this the most logical path.

tl;dr: Instead of blaming Microsoft for doing layoffs, maybe we should be asking ourselves why we let 3 trillion dollar companies exist in the first place

Try salmon/cod roe. It’s available in most Asian grocery stores and it’s quite similar.

Closest we’ve got is companies not actively union busting

Eh, it’s less about defeatism and more that I’m watching a fight between two assholes so I’m finding it hard to empathize with either side.

Like… Publishers regularly screwed over consumers, content creators, and tried to break the web multiple times. They can bleed for all I care