"Job growth" is such an easily manipulated metric by companies to score tax breaks from governments, especially for companies like Amazon that can claim "our warehouse will create X jobs" while developing autonomous warehouse technology that significantly cuts the number of actual jobs on the back end.
Such tax breaks should be tied to auditable figures verifying that the corporation hired the number of people they claimed they would, but of course they would never agree to such terms.
Glad to see this, the rate at which these developments have been getting approved clearly isn't sustainable and developers have a major incentive to getting projects locked in before regulators come in to change the laws around how data centers connect to the grid, which is almost certainly happening.
Dealing with undocumented legacy systems without access to the original developers is also part of the job, though. I'd estimate that at least 80% of the code I've had to maintain in my career was committed by someone no longer at the company. And while I wouldn't let an LLM loose to one-shot comprehensive documentation on a complex legacy system, I find them incredibly helpful at wayfinding in an old codebase.
It's trivial, verifiable and low-risk to have an LLM drop log statements at each step of a legacy endpoint and run it, verify that the logging statements are in order in the trace, and then read through the source, step by step. I prefer this kind of spelunking to generating a bunch of static docs that may or may not lead me astray in the app.
Hot take (maybe), but I don't think any javascript tool that's reached a critical mass of users is really safe from acquisition at this point. Reason being is that these modern projects are often being spun up as businesses and raising capital, and eventually all businesses in this industry seek an exit, especially those focused on growth and establishing themselves in the ecosystem.
The class of open source developers that thanklessly maintained the underlying packages driving this industry are heading for the exits, and they're being replaced by people who want to build businesses from the get-go. Who's to say this is right or wrong, but I think this is where it's all headed.
A few days ago, the YouTube algo recommended me a fan-made, 3 1/2 hour animated rendition of Star Wars: Heir to the Empire. The animation and voice acting were very crude compared to a professionally made film, and yet I got about halfway through it because the story was so much more compelling than anything coming out of Lucasfilm not named Andor.
The care and work that went into the project was very evident and appreciated despite the production limitations, and gave me hope that fan-driven projects will eventually be able to compete, at least in some regards, to the mediocre projects coming out of big studios.
The framing that congressional politicians have "forgotten" that they have power is a silly and dishonest trope. They absolutely know that they have power, but they also just watched multiple incumbents (Cornyn, Cassidy, Massie just to name a few) who didn't get Trump's endorsement lose their respective primaries, effectively ending their political careers.
Members of Congress, just like everyone else, act in their own self-interest. And unfortunately for pretty much everyone else, their best method of self-preservation is to do nothing, hence the "eunuch" Congress.
Agreed. Rails created conventions around standard issues developers were running into when building web apps that solved real pain points. With those problems largely out of the way, the community set out to conquer business domain logic in the same manner, which I am convinced is not possible to the same degree because business logic is inherently rooted in the chaos of the real world.
Hard problems are where the money is made, as they say.
It's absolutely true. Just look at how private equity is now getting access to public markets and retirement accounts[0]. You think PE is letting the little guys in out of the goodness of their hearts? No, they've extracted as much as they can and the market is starting to question the absurd valuation of private assets.
A wise man once said: "if you're given an opportunity to cut an amazing deal and you can't tell who's getting screwed, then it's probably you"
It's weird to see "the government is doing its job by responding to its voters" being framed as some nefarious and underhanded move.
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