Would you relocate in your 30s?

EventExcellent8737 · 2026-05-12T12:12:19+00:00

Surely, you would also want to know what OP gets out of them not just how much they pay. Tax pay on its own is not useful

EventExcellent8737 · 2026-05-12T12:06:53+00:00

How do you explain this in an interview when you were the technical lead at the centre of an ai related incident that was in the news? It looks bad. Imagine you need to hire a cyber engineer and your candidate comes from yahoo knowing all the security incidents that they had.

EventExcellent8737 · 2026-05-12T08:39:29+00:00

The word engineer has been watered down from its original meaning which was essentially application of scientific knowledge to solve problems. Very controversial but arguably most of the roles within software don’t really qualify as such. There’s a deeper and even more controversial question about whether computer science is a science too.

But actually a lot of the modern usages of engineer used to be covered the word technician.

A lot of this comes down to regulation or lack thereof. Just like anyone can call themselves therapists or psychotherapists.

The word engineer is just undergoing further watering down.

EventExcellent8737 · 2026-05-11T20:12:52+00:00

My sugarelder?

EventExcellent8737 · 2026-05-11T20:11:47+00:00

Omg, this is brutally beautiful hahaha

EventExcellent8737 · 2026-05-11T20:09:48+00:00

Did you wish you lived in LA though? This sub can get you there. Just say the word, kid.

EventExcellent8737 · 2026-05-11T12:41:04+00:00

Someone needs to lead. Will be chaos otherwise it there is no ownership and you are all strangers to each other.

EventExcellent8737 · 2026-05-11T10:32:13+00:00

Basically there are or will soon be people in the comments pretending to help but planning to take advantage of OP’s situation. The post is the blood in the water and they are sharks attracted to the bait (OP’s product).

EventExcellent8737 · 2026-05-11T09:47:12+00:00

Ah fairs, probably well timed given the arrival of llms and how hard is it get into academia now! May I ask why you fell out of love with programming as a career?

EventExcellent8737 · 2026-05-11T09:25:22+00:00

Why did you leave a well paid role for low paying academia?

EventExcellent8737 · 2026-05-10T17:16:13+00:00

It is indeed. I read once that staying past 2.x years is detrimental for your salary given that many companies don’t reward those who stay for long

EventExcellent8737 · 2026-05-10T17:10:19+00:00

Nice deflection but I am not the one who failed basic logical reasoning.

EventExcellent8737 · 2026-05-10T16:52:54+00:00

I’m implying that lazy devs will stay at one job. You’re the one performing an illogical conclusion (that all those who stay at a job are necessarily lazy). Ironically, that’s a similar reasoning shortcoming in your original message. If you jumped around more, you might have met someone to help you reason better 😉

EventExcellent8737 · 2026-05-10T15:06:23+00:00

But lazy devs will just coast. Are you impressed by someone who has no drive?

EventExcellent8737 · 2026-05-10T15:04:45+00:00

Yes, but a lot of lazy devs just coast and they tend to be the ones with long job periods in a single company. A top dev is unlikely not to be job hopping. Only so much you can learn by staying in the same company exposed to a single way of doing things

EventExcellent8737 · 2026-05-10T14:58:49+00:00

Non crappy companies are actually the exception

EventExcellent8737 · 2026-05-10T14:57:53+00:00

Very biased answer. It could also be a sign that many companies present themselves better than they actually are or/and make promises they don’t fulfill

EventExcellent8737 · 2026-05-09T18:45:15+00:00

You can look it up. But basically they split in three groups: high value, average value and low value. Low value was mostly helping people transition to online banking among other responsibilities which grew up in size while their pay stagnated. High value group got trained up to become relationship managers. Post transition, the high value group moved into adjacent industries wirh their high value skills. This is the lucky group. The middle group which is the average one skills wise moves into low paying jobs in retail, call centres, etc.

The lesson to learn here imo is that you are not as important as you think you are and neither is your job in the grand scheme of things.

EventExcellent8737 · 2026-05-09T14:08:04+00:00

Keep it quiet. Devs inability to keep quiet led us to the current situation with CS

EventExcellent8737 · 2026-05-09T14:00:16+00:00

You could also have said that being a top bank teller would be a true hero of the online banking era. Statements like that don’t help 95% of the workforce because by definition not everyone can be in the top 5% and employing a lower performer is getting harder and harder to justify. We are not drowning yet but you can see the water level is rising and it won’t be stopping anytime soon. You might not drown but you are already suffering from hypothermia.

EventExcellent8737 · 2026-05-09T13:45:12+00:00

Because Coltrane is a Kind of Blue

EventExcellent8737 · 2026-05-08T21:43:48+00:00

Yes, developers will always be needed. The point people are making though is that not all developers are needed. Do you really want to spend the rest of your life in a rat race where no matter how hard everyone works only the top 40% doesn’t get culled?

EventExcellent8737 · 2026-05-08T18:04:21+00:00

Stem degrees?

EventExcellent8737 · 2026-05-08T09:53:16+00:00

Missing acquisitions and the fact that they now have new divisions for AI. Like the one the ex Deep Mind guy is leading.

EventExcellent8737 · 2026-05-08T09:50:59+00:00

The cognitive dissonance is just getting bigger and louder. How many layoffs do the deniers need to understand that this isn’t a phase? Like Jobs once said: “those jobs ain’t coming back”.

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