My code? I just told you I don't write code anymore but no, at no point in the past two decades of working in fortune 500 enterprise environments have I routinely had to have someone else review all my code. Transparent with other people working on the codebase and seeing it? Sure. But no mandatory code reviews. Not every environment works the same way yours does and also producing code has always been a skill I utilize in my job functions, not the entire job function. I have no idea how they do things in software mills or SV projects.

That said I've definitely built and managed the pipelines used by teams of devs. Are there reviews? Yes. Human reviews? Maybe. Who cares? Humans are as likely to introduce bugs as remove them so 40 human reviews produces code I'd trust no more or less than the first draft. Automated testing, unit testing, functional testing, procedures to detect and heal from faults, resilient and highly available systems with redundancy, and a robust phased or CI pipeline with every element deployed with no trust and tightly controlled seams. The boat I'm in charge of is going to stay sailing and on course even if we all discover the crew died at some point and chunks of ice were randomly chocked through the window hitting the wheel.

It's a single member LLC startup so nobody can fire me. Apparently my skills went from rockstar people fight over to nobody calls back when I hit 40. So I'm trying something on my own. If it fails maybe the tech will be valuable or someone will value the experience. And if that fails I guess I'll have to figure out something else.

My background is a combination of architecture, delivery, and operational experience for global scale enterprise and highly redundant, highly available, mission critical and regulated environments including government and major airlines which spans decades with a security and automation focus. I took a major US airline and automated most of its operational infrastructure, deployments, and made it self-healing. All of which involved a highly restricted and locked down secure bubble including government integration, PCI, and ITIL processes. Trust me, the developers and staff committed garbage into the system all the time. But I could, and have, built code with genetic algorithms that literally evolves itself into shape with random processes and selection... an LLM might not actually have a brain but its outputs are a whole lot better than random. There are trust free ways to mitigate and recover from the impact of errors and handle data secondhand to avoid systems seeing and disclosing it.

I'm sure that someone is running an AI agent on Office right now. Word and Excel are the real enemies of switching.

Simply stating: We Do Not Accept DOCx or XLSx formats, forces compliance. Since MS can produce ODF (allegedly), that's how you get compliance.

Excel isn't done until the macros won't run (on anything else).

My father in law used to do design work in Excel. No kidding. He claimed Publisher et al didn't give him the precision he wanted, or something like that. It was amazing what he could put together in Excel.

Why? Is filling the Super Bowl blimp more important?

If nothing changed in 20 years, perhaps the looming helium crisis is overblown.

To be there, at that time, the communists were all calling him a fascist. If you were in the USSR, and even entertained the idea of simply traveling outside of the USSR without some kind of special circumstances (i.e. an athlete or upper ranking party official) you were branded a fascist for the rest of your life, and that's assuming you didn't just disappear one day.

Oh derp, missed that you weren't responding to rsilvergun.

He doesn't even know what you're talking about. He doesn't even have any retirement savings, a fact he inadvertently revealed a few months back, rather he just likes to make noise.

Usually it's better to just put it into broad index funds -- unless your financial advisor is expensive and/or won't even talk to you unless you're investing at least 500k, they aren't even going to do as well as the S&P. Why do I say that? Because by and large, that's exactly what finance professionals do with their own money.

For the time being, I moved all of my retirement portfolio into 50% FEQIX, 25% FSMDX, 25% FSPSX. Usually I keep half of it in an 0.01 expense ratio SPY fund, but I think it (along with most index funds) are way too AI heavy at the moment. This mix has been roughly even with the S&P since I switched from my last mix, but overall I've slightly (but not meaningfully) outperformed the S&P in the last two years. I think AI is going to implode right around the time when Anthropic and OpenAI show their audited financials and the circular financing with woefully inadequate revenue (which they only disclose to the public as ARR right now, which is basically meaningless) is laid bare, but I also don't believe there's any avoiding taking a hit either.

My prediction: Either you lose to inflation, you lose to investment-grade-turned-junk bonds (think Oracle), or you lose to equities. No matter what you do, you're going to take a hit in some form. The only exception is if you're in some kind of position to do something like what Michael Burry did, which most people aren't. I'd be surprised if he even is this time around.

Nope. Warner Bros. was losing money before the merger and had accumulated $40B in net debt.

The headcount reduction was sorely needed, and the merger makes it even more necessary.

I'm not sure why so many here, especially e.g. rsilvergun, revere Patrick Boyle. He's a former hedge fund manager, and the fund he managed almost certainly took at least 80% of the earnings over the life of the fund, while badly underperforming the S&P500. In his defense, his fund wasn't designed to beat the S&P, but there's a huge butt: Anybody who put money into it lost their ass to inflation, but the fund (including him) got paid very, very well. It's hard for me to watch him because I've literally watched him plainly state things as fact that I personally know to not be true.

However, the second link makes a pretty good point about investor limits, and unlike Patrick Boyle, doesn't try to paint speculation as fact. On the other hand, under the old rules, employees rarely got paid in stock. They had to be some kind of an upper-tier employee to get that, like either a top 10 programmer or VP, exec, etc. Where I work, literally every last FTE gets stock, including baristas, security, or any other job role you can name. Doesn't matter their pay grade, they get all of the same perks as everybody else. With all of the noise the rsilvergun-alikes make about companies being employee owned, especially the ones who espouse co-ops even though they typically have no idea what that word even means, you'd figure they'd be in favor of this. This year alone, I'm likely within a hair's distance of a 7-digit income on my w-2, and if not, then that means I've exceeded it. I know one guy who started early at the company and left a bit ago, and he's already sitting on $80 million worth. He retired in his 40s.

I didn't even vote in the last election. I had still been registered in Arizona while living in California. Even if I had been registered to vote legally, I would have left the presidential box empty.

No. I don't have time to simplify this for you, so you'll have to ask your guardian or your babysitter to interpret what I'm saying but, in fact, you got both words very, very wrong. What credentials do depends on the context. For example, being credentialed with an accredited law degree and passing a state bar exam gives a person authorization to practice law. With nuance of course, but that's the gist of it. In computing terms, credentials often contain two parts: Your identity, and your authentication factor. You make a claim to your identity, and you authenticate to prove that identity. Usually in that order, but sometimes it's both at the same time. It depends. Authorization is tied to your identity, and (remember, computing terms here) an authorization mechanism, such as an access control list, determines what you, operating as that identity, may or may not do.

That's not what projection means. But as a special kind of person, you'd fit right in with them. Just remember to ask your legal guardian first.