Good. Too many useless people got into tech because any monkey can memorize LC and outperform the monkey who also memorized LC and now is part of the interview panel so they can show off to the other monkeys that he deserves more bananas.
Tech was and still is the easiest way to make 200k base salary, before even thinking about the stock.
We need a reset and anyone who can’t make it can go fill the jobs we need in construction, education, etc.
Because this hypothetical heap could end up being used at a company that has my personally identifying information on file. If you don't care about the cavalier usage of AI chatbots and vibecoded software in these organizations then you aren't paying enough attention.
Ok but even pre ai I felt like each years interns wanted to take as many shortcuts as possible and not learn.
I think the allure of high TC (150k base or more for entry level) led to many non engineer brained people to enter tech.
Many people can do rote memorization, it’s even ingrained heavily in some cultures iykyk. However they can’t come up with much original or out of the box thinking.
I’m bootstrapping my company and my investments income/compounding basically paid me to do my own thing. Soul crushing work at tech company playing office bullshit (performative shit to get promotions and salary bumps) or just focus on doing something interesting I actually care about? I cared about the mission at my previous employers but day to day sucked the later stage the company went.
I’ll take funding if/when I need capital boost because it’s way more satisfying building from scratch. And my customers think it’s kinda cool and ofc AI helps me a lot for sure.
Imagine if I become the first person to do a solo billion dollar company lol. Me of all people, I would think that would be pretty hilarious.
I highly doubt there are as many people terminally online as we think there are.
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