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New comment by sevenzero in "Startups Brag They Spend More Money on AI Than Human Employees"

sevenzero — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:26:15 +0000

Why would you brag about something that dystopian while also ensuring people know that you don't know how your product looks from the inside?

New comment by sevenzero in "The beginning of scarcity in AI"

sevenzero — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:22:54 +0000

Its also quite interesting to read about Uber exploits their drivers and discriminating algorithms. Cory Doctorow mentioned it in his latest book, sadly cant link the direct sources.

New comment by sevenzero in "The beginning of scarcity in AI"

sevenzero — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:21:40 +0000

Yea that would've been extremely short sighted from your competitors. Thanks for linking the response!

New comment by sevenzero in "The beginning of scarcity in AI"

sevenzero — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:11:40 +0000

This was as clear as the sky when the first llm based businesses popped up. How did you realize this only now?

New comment by sevenzero in "Open Source Isn't Dead"

sevenzero — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:39:45 +0000

Yup, closed source software is a huge pile of shit with good marketing teams. Always was.

New comment by sevenzero in "Coding after coders: The end of computer programming as we know it?"

sevenzero — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 13:26:50 +0000

Yea, by my less is more logic its sometimes also difficult to do. With that approach people try to become clever and write shorter code thats unmaintainable due to mental gymnastics other people have to go through when reading it. What LLMs are doing is probably going for some kind of overengineered "best practice" solution. I personally only use them for simple Laravel CRUD apps and they are admittedly pretty good at that.

New comment by sevenzero in "Games with loot boxes to get minimum 16 age rating across Europe"

sevenzero — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 11:48:12 +0000

Yes please ban alcohol/make it hard to get.

New comment by sevenzero in "Coding after coders: The end of computer programming as we know it?"

sevenzero — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 10:47:51 +0000

Less is more, its not a hard thing to understand. These companies are accumulating record level tech debt.

New comment by sevenzero in "PayPal discloses data breach that exposed user info for 6 months"

sevenzero — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 16:14:36 +0000

Didn't see a single store i regularly buy from offer it yet unfortunately

New comment by sevenzero in "Two kinds of AI users are emerging"

sevenzero — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 19:27:08 +0000

Yea I never had real mentorship and I am responsible for 6 projects as solo developer. I am heavily against using LLMs for my tasks as thats just passionless mind numbing back and forth with a machine trying to get it to spit out stuff I actually understand.

I also learned that I absolutely hate most programmers. No offense. But most I've been talking to have a complete lack of ethics. I really love programming but I have a massive issue with how industry scale programming is performed (just offloading infra to AWS, just using random JS libs for everything, buying design templates instead of actually building components yourself, 99% of apps being simple CRUD and I am so incredibly tired of building http based apps, web forms and whatnot...)

I love tech, but the industry does not have a soul. The whole joy of learning new things is diminishing the more I learn about the industry.

New comment by sevenzero in "Your Job Isn't Disappearing. It's Shrinking Around You in Real Time"

sevenzero — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 19:20:59 +0000

Meh I dont want to go for a low salary job again, feels like my time isn't worth anything. Especially not after having collected some job experience and learning 2 completely different jobs which are both becoming more and more useless. I am tired.

New comment by sevenzero in "Your Job Isn't Disappearing. It's Shrinking Around You in Real Time"

sevenzero — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 15:01:55 +0000

All of this involves an amount of effort im not willing to go through every few months due to corporations letting people go left and right. Once you land a job and manage to save up a little all of it will go down the drain for your next move and the cycle repeats. All that while tech bros promise AI utopia

New comment by sevenzero in "Your Job Isn't Disappearing. It's Shrinking Around You in Real Time"

sevenzero — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 13:14:58 +0000

In my situation the next best alternative is to end it all. I wont go back to wage slavery fuck ass companies not respecting me nor my time.

New comment by sevenzero in "What Most People Miss About Getting Promoted"

sevenzero — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 10:18:27 +0000

Either that or nepotism.

New comment by sevenzero in "What Most People Miss About Getting Promoted"

sevenzero — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 10:17:13 +0000

I'd say its extremely company dependent and not really country dependent. Some companies have these type of talks with their employees, most I've been at do not. What's far more common is silently getting more responsibilities as time passes but never get an official promotion. So consider yourself lucky if your company is that open and communicative about actual promotions. Also, its not a promotion if it doesn't pay more (just putting it out there because I've ran into people that simply got a different title as a "promotion").

New comment by sevenzero in "Two kinds of AI users are emerging"

sevenzero — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 09:37:51 +0000

I agree and I am far from being a senior engineer. I'm only in the market since a few years and started out just before the whole LLM stuff started to pick up. So I have been grinding a lot (2nd job I've learned, am in tech since ~2020) only to be confronted with permanent existential fear of having to possibly learn a 3rd job (which takes 3 years of full time work for neglectable pay in my country). I dont want to start from zero again and I am tired of corporations that are shitting out money to be cheap on their employees. Starting from zero is never fun, going back into debt is never fun and having to leave a job/career you like also is never fun. I'm 30 now and only ever have been making (noteworthy, still below median) money since 1.5 years now. I cant afford starting anew and there is little I can do about it which is extremely frustrating.

New comment by sevenzero in "Two kinds of AI users are emerging"

sevenzero — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 08:53:33 +0000

> Anyone can create a small version of anything

Yup. My biggest issue with designing software is usually designing the system architecture/infra. I am very opposed to just shove everything to AWS and call it a day, you dont learn anything from that, cloud performance stinks for many things and I dont want to get random 30k bills because I let some instance of something run accidentally.

AI sucks at determining what kinda infrastructure would be great for scenario x due to Cloud being to go to solution for the lazy dev. Tried to get it to recommend a way to self host stuff, but thats just a general security hazard.

New comment by sevenzero in "Two kinds of AI users are emerging"

sevenzero — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 08:48:05 +0000

I started to outsource thinking at my job as my company made it very clear that they do not want/cant afford thinking engineers. Thinking requires time and they want to deliver quickly. So they cater towards the very realistic deadlines our PMs set for features (/s). Funnily enough the features have to be implemented ASAP according to the customers, but the customer feedback takes like 6 months due to them using the new feature for the first time 6 months after delivery. I just dont care anymore. Gonna leave the learning part up to my time off, but getting generally tired of the industry as a whole, so just putting in minimal effort to pay my bills until things explode or get better. So for me its definitely outsourcing thinking at work.

New comment by sevenzero in "YouTube blocks background video playback on Brave and other browsers"

sevenzero — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 10:09:55 +0000

You're free to do so, probably your million dollar idea right there.

New comment by sevenzero in "Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app"

sevenzero — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 10:06:47 +0000

That might be easy but its stuff most people dont know how to do. Its mostly a war on ad blocks.