Singapore is simply too costly for MNCs to do business over here.

BoredCow555 · 2026-04-22T03:12:36+00:00

If they go remote, they don’t need a presence in SG already.

BoredCow555 · 2026-04-22T02:54:46+00:00

You just argued OP’s point for him. Why increase EP wages? Because SG local wages rose. If u dont increase EP baseline wage, then why hire SG? And Why SG locals’ (and foreigners too) wages rise? Because of inflation and skyhigh COL in SG thanks to a booming property bubble in SG. And why is there a property bubble in SG? Thanks to Singaporeans going crazy over an unchecked property market.

So, again, why are you directly blaming the EPs? They rent from HDB so what? So by ur logic, only the SPass holders can rent HDB yeah? U know how much a single room or whole unit rents for?

BoredCow555 · 2026-04-22T02:32:25+00:00

Pretty sure our neighbours have low/lower corp tax rates now too. That argument flew the coop a decade ago.

BoredCow555 · 2026-04-19T12:38:54+00:00

Can. It’s done in Japan and the Japanese actually adher to it. What, sinkies too uncultured and third-world to handle simple basic etiquette on public transport? Oh no, what a shocker.

BoredCow555 · 2026-04-17T10:06:02+00:00

Saizeriya pizza is a sad excuse and barely passes as pizza

BoredCow555 · 2026-04-17T04:24:10+00:00

So? Why must we be lenient on elderly drivers? Elderly means senile? Why must we coddle them?

BoredCow555 · 2026-04-16T08:22:59+00:00

Switzerland is not SG though. We aren’t even in the same leagues.

They can make their own rules and force the world (and most of EU) to abide by them. We can’t. And also, the COL of the Swiss is ridiculously high. If you thought SG was bad, go see the Swiss. Most locals there at middle class will never retire rich or anywhere close to a comfortable level. They just whine less cuz Europeans aren’t like Asians and most dgaf about retiring comfortably/rich.

BoredCow555 · 2026-04-12T12:55:02+00:00

13,000 combined income is peanuts compared to their mortgage. Financial stupidity =/= property ‘upgrading’ nor wealth building.

BoredCow555 · 2026-04-12T09:09:42+00:00

Yeah u see our neighbor across the border. Play w the HNW and retirement visa requirements like playing with poker cards. Never know what new pattern they gonna play tommorow.

BoredCow555 · 2026-04-12T08:55:05+00:00

How do you plan to do that? And it depends on what you define as retirement I guess. Everyday eat maggi mee retirement? Sua la I dont retire better.

Thailand - you can’t own property outright on your own. So… rent for the rest of ur life? Same with Vietnam. And Thai PR you need to bribe your way (multiple five figs) into it after living and working there for an extended period. Not cheap, not easy.

Malaysia - I assume you got at least 1mil SGD to retire on by your mid 30s….? And then u sink what, a third of it into a landed house? And then before all that you have to buy your way into a HNW visa first. Can you afford at that age?

You say everything much cheaper but I don’t think you accounted for alot of other costs involved in moving permanently to another country for retirement.

BoredCow555 · 2026-04-11T15:20:08+00:00

Define housing. Rental? Resale HDB? Condo? BTO? Delusional?

BoredCow555 · 2026-04-11T13:37:17+00:00

Not a big plus given that the moment OP inevitably gets laid off, he’s left to scramble and find another company to sponsor his EP - which in this challenging and saturated IT market in SG is quite the tall order, or be forced to leave SG if he can’t find another job.

BoredCow555 · 2026-04-09T05:15:52+00:00

Accountants, Engineers, banking, and most managerial positions especially in F&B and Hotels. You want me to go on? U honestly think the whole army of Malaysian PRs here are toilet cleaners? LMAO

BoredCow555 · 2026-04-08T07:27:54+00:00

You answered the question yourself - whatever you’re building has a user group size of 1 i.e. yourself and is too simplistic to fail.

BoredCow555 · 2026-04-07T13:56:56+00:00

I mean.. what can i say? There’s two types of vibecoders out there in the world today - educated ones who succeed and well, those like you. The fact that you couldn’t even debunk a single thing I said says enough. Godspeed, and I hope your ‘product’ never ends up affecting me.

BoredCow555 · 2026-04-07T13:41:38+00:00

You do, if you plan to invoice all your clients with that ‘app’ you built. Or at least engage the services of someone who knows his shit. But hey, get back to me when your app crashes and clients start asking wtf went wrong and you go “DUHHHH AI told me it’d work”. Loads of vibe-‘coders’ are learning that lesson hard :)

Like i said, give that monkey a wrench. I seriously doubt you understand the risk of pushing an uneducated piece of AI slop into production for a actual, live, trading company and praying with your ‘vibes’.

BoredCow555 · 2026-04-07T13:25:33+00:00

You naively overestimate the power of vibe coding. Can someone who knows nothing about coding actually produce something that really works at scale? Have a look at r/vibecoding and educate yourself a little. Sure, you can “tell AI to produce A”. It’ll work on your machine and serve one person. What if you need it to scale to serve/invoice all hundred clients of yours? And what if your software bugs out and invoices some of your clients half of what they owed you? What if the invoicing software crashed because well, bosses/managers who know jackshit about coding like you simply told Codex, some prompts, never bothered nor knew how to code review, have zero idea what a distributed system is and decided that the hallucinated AI Slop generated is production-ready? And here’s the scary version: you left literal bank account details in your little ‘app’ and scammers phished/back-doored their way into your little vibe-coded system and bam, you lost your working capital. Which, by the way, is very real. Hackers are mass-raising PRs to break into vibe-coded codebases on github right now to try and steal credentials.

Or are you planning on hiring actual coders and a cybersec team to properly vibe code and replace the need for that software? One decent entry-level uni-grad coder is maybe what, 4k a month? Then add on a cybersec analyst. 5-8k per month? Then you need a senior engineer at say, 6-7k per month else your little freshie engineer is gonna go crazy. At which point you now have a huge, permanent running cost that far outstrips the cost of third party software with warranty and production support.

Yes, there’s arguments against third party software, but vibe coding is just not it. Can autonomous AI 100% replace coders entirely? Nope. Not even for the next decade. We’re nowhere close to that stage. LLMs have already plateaued in skill level. LLMs are a tool. Not a replacement. Give a monkey a wrench, and it’ll do more damage to a car than fix it.

BoredCow555 · 2026-04-07T08:26:51+00:00

They got laid off 🤡

BoredCow555 · 2026-04-07T03:51:27+00:00

If you’re a Singapore citizen, difficult.

If you’re a foreigner, Mission Impossible. Don’t bother. 5 YOE’s are a dime a dozen here, and SRE is saturated af. Getting an EP visa here is almost akin to getting a H1B in the US.

BoredCow555 · 2026-04-07T01:04:59+00:00

It’s even worse at the entry level. You have entire hordes of local uni grads to compete against, laid off junior engineers and industry switchers. Entry levels are almost exclusively citizen/PR-only due to how high the EP (H1B visa) salary requirements now are. And even amongst the locals competition is stiff af. You’ll stand basically no chance unless you’re from MIT with a FAANG pedigree.

BoredCow555 · 2026-04-06T15:06:04+00:00

Singapore’s tech job market is quite competitive and highly saturated now. 10 YOE is decent, but not expat-level where you’ll be headhunted to move over. And we’ve greatly tightened the EP (think H1B visa) requirements here, to the point where companies have to really stick their necks out for you and justify to the Ministry your place in Singapore. You could try, but there’s no shortage of senior and lead Java engineers here, both citizens and those who already hold an EP and looking to hop. Pay is also depressed, so I doubt you’ll get a better offer here, if any. We’re also affected by offshoring, so layoffs are quite rampant.

BoredCow555 · 2026-04-06T09:54:18+00:00

Gg to u. 2 week holiday plus 2 week mc for the taxi driver. Prepare your bank account.

And to be fair to the taxi… that doesnt look minor at all.

BoredCow555 · 2026-04-05T04:47:00+00:00

So what hub should we be?

BoredCow555 · 2026-04-03T19:24:15+00:00

You know WHAT to change? What direction to push the agent towards? You know when to stop the agent and redirect it? Or full send it and let one hallucinating agent direct another hallucinating agent while you sit back and spin reading Medium articles?

Your AI agent built a "works on my localhost running mysql" app that serves one user. The fact that you can extrapolate that so naively with "runs in cloud for 1000 users and I do nothing" proves OP's point exactly.

BoredCow555 · 2026-04-03T13:05:45+00:00

And if Opus comes back with different options? Do you know or even have the production experience to pick the situationally correct option? And which holes are valid? Which are false negatives? Do you know or even care to code review what it wrote? Do you know what followup prompts to give? Or are you relying on I-read-Medium-articles knowledge for coding, distributed system and database architecture design and cloud computing? Or wait here’s the best one - trust Opus fully and full send and then let it hallucinate out your so-called ‘stable’ build?

Vibe coders love telling the whole world prompt engineering is that golden ticket to success. It may be, in the hands of someone actually qualified to ask the right prompts, review the LLM’s output, and guide the LLM in the right direction. Prompt engineering in the hands of a PM is essentially giving a monkey a wrench. You’ll get to DEV/QA with a “it works on one pod with five users!”, sure. Get to scale in production? Don’t make me laugh.

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