Thanks for relating those two things. I enjoyed hearing I'm not the only alien who thinks this way.

Uhh, not to take away from your other points, but I'd like to point out that factually the whole thesis for the article is pretty shakey. America is the top destination for migrants in terms of desirability. They want to come to the USA more than other places. That's just a simple fact. Another fact is that net migration inbound is much greater (1.3M to 2.7M more positive on the inbound side than the outbound).

So, I get that it's all the rage in EU to bash the USA, and yeah, okay whatever, but let's at least have the discussion with those two facts on the table too along with the "More people than usual left the USA for other places." bit.

I don't agree. A lot of people feel awkward asking for anything just about anything.

I don't think it is at all incorrect for a person working in hospitality to respond to a request with "No problem, that's why I am here" or just "No problem."

Nobody is waiting tables, standing behind the bell desk finding you local cab company, or checking in the back to see if they have an alternator in stock for a different year Chevy that should mount on your block for the sure joy of it. Its really the corporation/proprietor/house that is extending/affording your the customer service. Employees pleasantly and politely communicating that your request fell within that level of service is perfectly reasonable and probably desirable from the business perspective.

Some people do believe that to be the case. If you ever meet one make sure to slap them and tell them that it was their fate to be slapped and nothing could have changed the outcome. If the protest, slap them again. This exercise can be repeated for some, possibly determined, number of times or at least until your hand gets sore. Remember that you can quit anytime you want, but they apparently lack such luxury.

More seriously, even if humans are entirely deterministic I don't think we could function under that belief system. How could you jail a murderer for their crime if they had no ability to choose to do otherwise? I suppose you could because you believe you also have no choice but to convict them despite that conclusion being logically absurd. Any human that tried actually living by that premise would have to be exceptionally detached or would drive themselves mad.

More, more seriously I think the person behind the article is invested in Indian IT and has employed some buzzword bullshit to make it seem like the emperor still has clothes. I have no fucking clue what any of that is supposed to mean and I don't think anyone else does either. Of course the point is to distract from the fact that what they've invested in is quickly evaporating to nothing and if nothing else they'd like to convince someone else that they could invest for pennies on the dollar when all they really want is a way out so they're not stuck holding the bag.

Nice to see there are still a few people here that get it.

The average CEO makes something on the order of 281 times the typical employee.

I would hope as we explore genAI and the possibilities white collar work, boards of directors would take a hard look how much payroll it might save to get rid of some of these under performers.

That is both true and also never stopped anyone in the world of frameworks/libraries/languages and stuff that is for programmers by programmers for the most part.

Its widely applied to American's who live in the North East and upper midwest.

Its frequently used for people with Winter residences in more rural or touristy portions of Arizona, New Mexico, as well, less often for Georgia, Mississippi, and Alabama.

Places that comfortable in September - March, but cheap because they are not comfortable the rest of year and there is little in the way of employment, unless its handyman, grocery store clerk, audiologist, or physician. That is fine because snowbirding is mostly a retirees thing.

It's not helpful to describe software as "the right way" or "the wrong way."

Instead, focus on finding "something that works" and avoiding "things that don't work" (and of course, "working" can include the requirement of code being readable, flexible, etc). There is never exactly "one right way." There are always several ways that work and are fine.

for something like Next.js on Node.js I don't think that is the case at all.

Honestly 94% is probably as good as 100% for quality projects that have good unit tests. It should be as simple as deploying to the new environment changing a handful of lines or [ctrl]-[r]'ing your way to using stuff from the new name space, and running your tests. If all the tests come up green because you don't use that 6% missing - off to QA testing..

If some tests do fail you probably are not looking at a huge effort to replace what is missing or has a real implementation difference that matters to you with roll-your-own, or let Claude vibe code your own..

Now if you don't have tests. Well that missing 6% is "here there be dragons" for you, and for a large project you'd never be able to confidently migrate. You might as well be COBOL mainframe land where the problem isnt just the COBOL is also the hidden logic of SYNCSORT's applied after every job step..

I think we are going to see the pace of software churn speed up a lot thanks to AI, the projects that survive are going to be the ones that can deal with the sand shifting below them because they have followed good practice around testability, and coupling.

At work this is no big deal.

Just create a Jira ticket for each bug found, assign the minimum of one story point to each ticket, then spend ten minutes (or an hour) checking it out. If it's a real bug, create another Jira ticket for fixing it (you need to have a meeting to discuss priorities, of course, so don't fix it right away). If it's not a real bug, close it and Voila, a free story point. If it's a duplicate, close it anyway (not marked duplicate, that will take extra work and waste your time) and Voila, another free story point. (If you do need to verify that it's a duplicate, be sure to create a Jira ticket for verifying that it's a duplicate. Don't do any work that is not logged!)

I figure that including meetings, you can get around 60 story points a week just by looking at AI tickets. Adjust the number based on how many you need that sprint. Your manager will be happy, velocity is skyrocketing because of AI!

Of course in the real world, this strategy isn't great.

A lot of incompetent programmers got hired, the kind who not only can't produce elegant code, but also can't recognize it.

The result was managers started micromanaging them.

At these companies, the managers won, the rest of us suffer. At these companies, productivity is down (even if "agile velocity" is up), but they'd rather have control than productivity.

If they try that with me, I'll just thank them for promoting me to overpaid consultant to clean up the ai mess.

... if you don't like current federal law, it can be changed. Elect people who will change it the way you do like.

We could call it ... democracy?

You know who else was "taking matters into their own hands" a while back? Those dipshits who were torching cell towers because 5gcovidmicroships!1oneeleven!