From wikipedia: > The book presents recent research findings from different fields which suggest human populations in the Western Hemisphere—that is, the Indigenous peoples of the Americas—were more numerous, had arrived earlier, were more sophisticated culturally, and controlled and shaped the natural landscape to a greater extent than scholars had previously thought.

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It's a system that helps services companies within a certain industry to digitalize all their paperwork, report to the national goverment agencies etc. They do a lot of manual work which can be digitalized easily.

I found this opportunity by just randomly throwing out in a big community that I build software and is looking for ideas, and some guy answered that ended up being my business partner for 3 years now. We are not rich from it but earn like $2000 each a month after tax which is quite a lot for us since we live in a country where healthcare, schools, parental leave etc are covered by taxes. And we dont need to put more than a few hours a month on support. I have put in basically all my spare time for 2 years to get to this point though, the biggest reward is not the money but the process of sitting through the nights being completely in the zone and building this stuff knowing that it will be great :D

I decided to apply for a junior developer job. I got an interview and to prepare for an interview I found this site, Project Euler. I did ten or so tasks.

The interview started out pretty bad, they asked me some technical questions which I did not give good answers to, and I saw that they where not impressed. Then they wanted me to solve two programming problems on a white board. Imagine the relief I felt when both of these questions where from the ones that I solved on Project Euler a couple of days before! I nailed them and the interviewers where clearly impressed. In the end they hired me and motivated it with that although I lack a lot of theory I am obviously a very good coder haha.

Anyway, that was what I needed, when I got this job I quit the drugs and got my act together. 12 years later I live a confortable life as a freelancer and have even managed to build my own SaaS with paying customers! Thank you Project Euler.

These days, AI can generate solutions to problems 10 times faster than a junior developer can. This naturally puts pressure on developers who want to impress their employers, especially when their colleagues are also using AI.

> A few hours later, Adam’s mom found her son’s body hanging from the exact noose and partial suspension setup that ChatGPT had designed for him.

Imagine being his mother going through his ChatGPT history and finding this.

In the Swedish schoolsystem, the idea for the past 20 years has been exactly this, that is to try to teach critical thinking, reasoning, problem solving etc rather than hard facts. The results has been...not great. We discovered that reasoning and critical thinking is impossible without a foundational knowledge about what to be critical about. I think the same can be said about software development.