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New comment by orangecoffee in "Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training"

orangecoffee — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 18:19:04 +0000

Does not matter? I think the high compensation will be what will drive the compliance.

New comment by orangecoffee in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?"

orangecoffee — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 05:41:55 +0000

Noble thought, but words are empty. Have you perchance written up anything specific?

The only one who's written thus is Marx, but those ideas has not found broad socital support.

New comment by orangecoffee in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?"

orangecoffee — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 03:01:47 +0000

Nursing perhaps? It seems like caring for other people would be useful even in an otherwise runaway AI world.

New comment by orangecoffee in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?"

orangecoffee — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 02:27:05 +0000

> Prospective clients ask Claude to do the work they might have hired me for

In all the 10 articles, I think this is the only thing really.

I think we have to learn how to overcome and thrive in the new world. The gravy of CS careers is gone for all :(

New comment by orangecoffee in "I used AI. It worked. I hated it"

orangecoffee — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:01:33 +0000

I guess a long way from "fucking loom smashing" then. Makes this whole thread moot.

New comment by orangecoffee in "I used AI. It worked. I hated it"

orangecoffee — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:22:35 +0000

Sure, hype pushback is fine.

New comment by orangecoffee in "I used AI. It worked. I hated it"

orangecoffee — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:22:00 +0000

When you say sabotage, how exactly?

Or is it limited to refusal to use LLM, which is a strategy, but more like becoming a hobbyist programmer then.

New comment by orangecoffee in "I used AI. It worked. I hated it"

orangecoffee — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 09:22:49 +0000

How long can you afford to stay in this phase? Is there some framework you can suggest where this path works?

New comment by orangecoffee in "I used AI. It worked. I hated it"

orangecoffee — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 09:21:26 +0000

the original post is an example of how. Every programmer is discovering slowly, for their own usecases, that the agent can actually do it. This happens to an individual when they give it a shot without reservation..

New comment by orangecoffee in "I used AI. It worked. I hated it"

orangecoffee — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 09:19:15 +0000

No this is still the "bargaining/negotiating" phase thinking. After this is when depression hits when for your usecases you see that the code quality and security audit is very good.

New comment by orangecoffee in "I used AI. It worked. I hated it"

orangecoffee — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 08:27:35 +0000

The author has arrived at resentful acceptance of the models power(eg: "negative externalities", "condemn those who choose").

But the next step for many is championing acceptance. Eg "that the same kind of success is available outside the world of highly structured language" .. it actually is visible when you engage with people. I'm myself going through this transition.

New comment by orangecoffee in "The ladder is missing rungs – Engineering Progression When AI Ate the Middle"

orangecoffee — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:37:42 +0000

The response I get offline is that there's millions of seniors right now that can last a couple decades.

New comment by orangecoffee in "The ladder is missing rungs – Engineering Progression When AI Ate the Middle"

orangecoffee — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:35:25 +0000

How much are you willing to pay? Is there any expectation of payoff?

New comment by orangecoffee in "Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI"

orangecoffee — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 01:43:33 +0000

Dude, the time for work is going down drastically, about a third of before. Are you not facing it?

New comment by orangecoffee in "I don't know if my job will still exist in ten years"

orangecoffee — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 12:58:22 +0000

To give you the benefit of doubt - you're not paying attention. The 100$ claude account is profitable inference wise, and performs better than 80% of engineers with upto 5YOE. Architects I speak with want to delegate to this 100$ agent rather than 10000$ engineer.

It is absolutely more cost efficient. Junior engineers are done for.

New comment by orangecoffee in "Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions"

orangecoffee — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 10:10:15 +0000

Sending you empathy. I think we have to get used to the lower pay expectation. This is the biggest negative, which does not make up for all of the AI's upsides.

New comment by orangecoffee in "AI is making junior devs useless"

orangecoffee — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 01:08:21 +0000

It does not exclude. But the expectation of larger money has to go. They're literally competing with 100 dollars a month.

New comment by orangecoffee in "AI is making junior devs useless"

orangecoffee — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:54:40 +0000

Your getting unnecessarily down voted by devs who want to feel morally superior, but don't have any concrete answer to the conundrum you've posed.

It's about money, and the actual solution would be to lower pay at senior level and give it to juniors, with some lock in agreed by the junior in exchange for this grace.

I doubt the vast majority will agree to this.

New comment by orangecoffee in "Open Source Endowment – new funding source for open source maintainers"

orangecoffee — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 23:12:56 +0000

What happened with Wikipedia? I thought they run a tight optimum ship?

New comment by orangecoffee in "Tech Firms Aren't Just Encouraging Their Workers to Use AI. They're Enforcing It"

orangecoffee — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 17:25:06 +0000

Is there not a higher productivity expectation for you? How are you going to meet those without agents?