Beej Jorgensen

This is pretty much the only way to verify knowledge. And it’s kind of what interviewers do when they’re thinking about hiring someone for a job, right? Same goal.

One potential avenue that schools have, especially in college, is to let the students know that. You’re not up against the school; you’re up against the interviewer.

This academic year I’m going to try to set up a thing where we do mock interviews with students, hopefully with real interviewers from real companies. I want to show the students where they’re going, and what they really have to get ready for.

In my dream world, we wouldn’t even have grades or diplomas. After all, when we’re learning things on our own we don’t have those and yet somehow we manage to get the job done. But not having grades comes with its own set of problems in this academic structure we’ve set up.

I used to pay Google for things back when they were pretty awesome. Haven’t paid them a dime for years now.

I’ve been messing around with vibe-painting, myself. Damn it feels good to be an artist.

I’m trying to think of something more fucked up, but I’m struggling, here.

This guy’s argument is that he’s a 10xer because he’s using AI effectively, i.e. just proofreading its output and deleting the comments. (Also, why hire juniors when you can get the same work for $20/mo?)

I think this is a losing strategy unless all senior devs never retire and are immortal. (Or unless GAI happens in which case the world economy will collapse and who cares about strategy.)

It looks like what’s happening is that way fewer companies are willing to invest in juniors now, leading to falling enrollment in university, leading to a shortage of seniors, leading to very high dev pay, leading to increased enrollment. Eventually.

Or a process to challenge them?

😂😂😂😔

“I see you have extensive database experience. Can you elaborate on the white genocide?”