This is such cry-baby nonsense.

NONSENSE.

Since 2008, I have personally mentored dozens of young dudes (at no cost whatsoever, just because that's what successful people do).

I have helped poor dudes in bad neighborhoods buck up, get some side hustles, stack cash, and buy property.

You fucked yourself because you refuse to actually do someone to buy property. I don't know ANYONE, starting with even zero money, who couldn't find a nice home in just 2-3 years of saving money properly -- except the lepers in California, and fuck them anyway.

Except the employers know this and tequire more work. Anecdotes are of people writing prompts that mostly specify a handul of testcases and to have the agents self prompt with the output of the compiler, linter unit tests etc. until it passes. Then they verify the tests cases are still right and move to the next ticket never even looking at the code, commiting the prompts into git. I've tried this with cline and a corporate hosted mistral. it works. My employer doesn't know it works yet but at some point we'll all just be writing prompts and verifying tests as fast as we can...

I would rather let Nazis speak and elect to block them myself than have an entire moderation team block everyone they disagree with.

Reddit is equally a shithole.

Heck. /. used to have a good libertarian minority and today it's nerds defending their trans kids here.

Saying there is no difference is incorrect. But it is surprising how often completely different motives lead to the same behavior. There are many overlapping factions with differing goals that sometimes align and sometimes oppose each other. Complexity is annoying, but it is real. Thiel for example has views that are largely incompatible with any faction involving manufacturing, but he wants enough of the same things that there is compromise. There are even different generalizations you can make about the parties that hold up. Red states have lower median incomes, lower education, more gerrymandering, about the same federal investment, lower gdp per capita, higher wealth inequality, but can actually complete building projects and infrastructure when they do invest in them. Causation and correlation as usual, but correlations are useful in partitioning groups.

I found your post difficult to parse. Is your assertion that profits are down or are expected to go down due tariffs? And that this is the primary driver of the layoffs? I'm not disagreeing, I just genuinely couldn't tell.

I would prefer to replace myself, yes.

I have a 37 year work history of finding ways to replace myself and folks like me. I already offer my clients free Ai consulting on the side to help them replace me. I'm already onto the "next thing" that will replace Ai in the headlines anyway.

I don't own a computer. I am not a programmer. I do everything from my iPhone.

In the past 10 years, I have spent tens of thousands of dollars on human programmers to create 3 web apps. Zero of them ever were finished. ZERO.

I used Grok AI to create 5 web apps. 3 of them were monetized almost immediately and have paying clients. All 5 have passed security checks that look for bugs or hack entry points.

One of the 3 monetized web apps took me all of 30 minutes using Grok, on an airplane, using my iPhone. I was able to download the files and upload them to a web server and the site was live. Literally 30 minutes and that website has created thousands of dollars of passive income.

I use vibe coding DAILY to make spreadsheets better for me and clients (I am not in IT). I use vibe coding DAILY to come up with cool functions for my web apps that people pay me to use.

Spoon-fed by the algorithm. I looked over my dad's shoulder at some of the posts he was looking at and just shook my head.

Fark stopped being fun when some loon tried to get me fired.

It didn't work, by the way.

Same reasons that required Jimmy Carter to sell his peanut farm.

I almost wonder if that's actually a dude who was on the flight or someone taking advantage of an opportunity to get in the news.

Seems so unlikely.

You mean the JFK documents that were released containing hundreds of social security numbers of federal employees? Not exactly a glowing recommendation.

Mosquitos form a tiny portion of the diet of the animals that eat them, including bats. Mosquitos are pollinators, but again. Many othe pollinators pollinate the same species of plants. Making mosquitoes extinct might actually help honey bees by decreasing competition for shared resources. There have been multiple studies, and surprisingly, there is no evidence that removing mosquitoes would cause a trophic cascade, and a great deal of evidence that it would not. We should do it.

And the "meritocracy" people claim this is in pursuit of more educational opportunities for American students without a molecule of irony.

Constantly telling cursor what it is doing wrong or what it forgot is often more tiring than just doing it all yourself, no matter how many prompts you save off to copy/paste back to it.