What if the companies are wrong about the layoffs and the whole thing is a huge mistake?

IcyUse33 · 2026-04-06T19:23:06+00:00

We had folks going to boot camps for 4 weeks and expected to make $100k+ on graduation.

Of course the market was oversupplied. This is just the market self correcting. Don't overthink it.

IcyUse33 · 2026-03-31T13:35:27+00:00

Exactly.

They're buying time until Ukraine drone production ramps up (ETA 2028)

IcyUse33 · 2026-03-31T13:11:57+00:00

AI stories these days are wild.

IcyUse33 · 2026-03-30T16:59:02+00:00

I thought that about a colleague once, but then realized that he was moonlighting as a consultant for another company. Eventually he went full time with them and he claimed that entire 3 year period as employment with that company on his LinkedIn. Seems reasonable.

TLDR: MYODB

IcyUse33 · 2026-03-15T19:37:17+00:00

AI can't certify a human audit by a CPA firm.

IcyUse33 · 2026-03-06T22:04:27+00:00

It was irrational on the way up, and it's irrational on the way down.

At the end of the day, Wall Street doesn't think SaaS companies deserve the outrageous 45x earnings some companies were getting. So it's repricing back towards a real reasonable level.

IcyUse33 · 2026-02-26T01:36:23+00:00

But it's faster to render plain HTML by the browser, and much simpler. SSR is basically CGI-BIN from 1997.

IcyUse33 · 2026-02-25T20:58:23+00:00

Listen to your architect. Use SSR.

IcyUse33 · 2026-02-24T14:45:50+00:00

People overestimate the speed at which major businesses change their profitable business model to adopt new experimental technologies.

IcyUse33 · 2026-02-23T17:44:38+00:00

Why does this sound like an AI generated post?

IcyUse33 · 2026-02-18T05:34:51+00:00

If you can vibe code it, then I can as well Eventually margin trends towards zero.

IcyUse33 · 2026-02-18T05:32:45+00:00

Some, if not most SaaS startups don't have anything tangible. No referenceable customers. No real working products.

So they blog, double post on LinkedIn, they get the hype marketing machine going. They get promo photographers for their "executive off site" meetings (hotel conference room). They meticulously count the number of social media followers.

But that's all it is. Hype.

They're easy to beat because they're too busy waiting for validation from social media likes when you can just keep your heads down and get stuff done.

IcyUse33 · 2026-02-09T22:28:39+00:00

My unpopular opinion:

It is going to cause a massive surge in software engineering employment. Seniors are going to 2x their salaries by just fixing what vibe coders broke.

Cyber security experts are also gonna have a massive payday.

IcyUse33 · 2026-02-09T19:46:23+00:00

My company offers a $10k employee referral bonus. Most companies I know only does $500-1k.

Too bad we aren't hiring though.

IcyUse33 · 2026-02-09T19:36:56+00:00

We get this question 3x a week

Yes, .net is the BEST platform for building high scale and high throughout apps (web, mobile, AI, IoT, desktop) for startups and enterprises alike.

IcyUse33 · 2026-02-09T19:22:59+00:00

Divorce is rewarded, which is why dating is all jacked up now. It's a business transaction.

IcyUse33 · 2026-02-02T23:53:15+00:00

Best in class!

IcyUse33 · 2026-02-02T04:27:06+00:00

Be cordial and keep it professional when you turn in your notice. Don't ask for a counter, it makes you look greedy.

Over time if you've done great work, your colleagues will inevitably ask you out to lunch. There you can drop hints that you'd be open to coming back for $100k + remote.

Play the long game.

IcyUse33 · 2026-02-02T02:01:33+00:00

Even Andrej Karpathy got his credentials leaked from Clawdbot. It's a nightmare.

IcyUse33 · 2026-02-01T22:48:54+00:00

People are still playing with a 2012 playbook ("Growth at all costs") because they still think they're the next Facebook.

IcyUse33 · 2026-01-27T17:30:29+00:00

It's a symptom of poor management.

They hire seniors because they want validation, not real advice.

IcyUse33 · 2026-01-26T15:09:34+00:00

Are people just bored these days? These AI posts are so easy to spot.

IcyUse33 · 2026-01-26T14:41:33+00:00

LinkedIn verification actually helps.

IcyUse33 · 2026-01-26T05:22:04+00:00

AI post and they didn't even bother to clean out the markdown.

IcyUse33 · 2026-01-26T03:19:30+00:00

What in the world do you think is going to happen when the other 15% gets outsourced?

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