These seem like extremely solve-able problems.

I'm not entirely sure how that math works out, or why, because one would think it couldn't be that complicated. Maybe someone here knows more about this.

I've looked at e.g. gemini which seems to refuse to generate even the most mundane things without explanation, some chatgpt options, and runwayml, the last of which seemed to be the best option but appears to be ridiculously expensive. I think runwayml also is limited to like ~10 second videos maximum, I think? Which is not enough.

Anyone got any ideas?

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If anything it seems to me like we've just swapped coding with what is effectively a lot more code review (of whatever the LLM spits out), at the cost of also losing that long term understanding of a block of code that actually comes from writing it yourself (let's not pretend that a reviewer has the same depth of understanding of a piece of code as an author).

What was the scraper written in? Python? Node? Go?

Is there any real benefit to using one of those generators versus just writing all the HTML yourself?

The last site I had, was just an index.html file, some css, and a bit of attached JS. I threw it on a ridiculously expensive webhost (MediaTemple) and that was that.

What's the best and cheapest way to build a fairly content heavy site these days, without as much "magic" as possible? I can write Javascript but I've read previous threads like this and people are often throwing out names like Next.js, React, or whatever the new shiny thing is, and it seems like massive overkill. I generally like to be able to reason about systems I write with not too much "magic" and 102321232 dependencies.

Any suggestions?

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What skills, tech stacks, languages, or libraries are absolutely the most in demand for jobs and highest paying as of April 2024? Evidence for your answers would be extremely appreciated!

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It seems like the assessment tests are written by a machine and/or scraped entirely from questions in online repositories.

As an example, here's a screenshot of one of their nonsense questions for an Android assessment: https://prnt.sc/waKVQjFoETwr

Almost all the questions are like that. I also figured out that a bunch of the questions seem to be copied word for word from online repositories like https://github.com/Ebazhanov/linkedin-skill-assessments-quizzes/blob/main/android/android-quiz.md.

Tried to speak to a person about all the issues which make taking an assessment impossible, and just got more bots.

I'm sure many are looking for jobs, so figured this would save people a bunch of time.

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I'm curious as to what everyone thinks the best stack would be for something like this. What sort of technologies are used for actually drawing to a zoomable canvas?

I have experience with React and Angular, but I've never worked on a project that requires this type of frontend. I assume there's a bunch of websocket work involved but that seems like the easiest part.

What sort of tech stack are these things usually built with?

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