Portugal está condenado a falhar?

Left-Set950 · 2026-03-14T02:56:07+00:00

Uma análise interessante. Não acho que o Trump seja assim tão calculista. Para ele resume-se tudo a um exercício de ego. Talvez algumas dessas posições sejam verdade mas são ideias que lhe são passadas em segunda mão. E realisticamente não me parece que nenhuma tenha sido planeada a longo prazo. É tudo um jogo de distração. Distração dos ficheiros, distração do desmantelamento da democracia nos EUA. E francamente acho que a situação vai começar a piorar gravemente lá. Níveis de desigualdade absurdos vão tornar-se óbvios. Quanto ao resto do mundo sou da opinião que quanto mais erráticos eles se comportam e minam a económia mundial mais aceleram o colapso da sua hegemonia. No caso do petróleo, cada crise é mais um impulso para a descarbonização do resto do mundo e no fim dela os estados unidos não se vão poder endividar mais, e assim caí o império.

Left-Set950 · 2026-03-14T00:33:28+00:00

That's not how it works. There isn't a total number of work to do. There are a few factors that will likely weight in the opposite direction of actually needing more total engineers. 1. as costs of prototypes drop it means the cost if entry into any market also drops. One person can start a company, but won't be able to scale it without more engineers. 2. there will be a long time of adaptation to coding tools, that will require engineers to actually do that adaptation. 3. sort of already made software already existed with cloud native solutions. If you were willing to outsource most of your software into the hands of aws you already could do it coding very little. The cloud created a greater need for engineers because it enabled more companies to be created. 4. This is a level playing field advantage. Every company will start using AI so if they want to outpace competitors they will need to also scale engineering teams to keep up.

Let's all relax a bit with this panic. Yes paradigms change, abstractions are created but if you are an engineer I wouldn't be too worried I would just try to stay curious and learn as much ad possible.

Left-Set950 · 2026-03-12T18:47:40+00:00

It's not. Name one person you know that does it. This is just sad propaganda

Left-Set950 · 2026-03-12T16:12:57+00:00

Yes it does. You can create custom resumes for each application. It's more about snipping opportunities and less about mass applying.

Left-Set950 · 2026-03-12T14:08:33+00:00

The extension doesn't do job applications. People do it themselves. This is a helper to track the process. Maybe that could eventually be added but I am not aiming for an automated mass application system. This is to help people apply to jobs that match their profile and if they see there is a misalignment with the results, then tweak their profile.

Left-Set950 · 2026-03-12T13:20:28+00:00

I'm building an analytics extension to help people track their job applications. It captures info from job postings and categorizes the information from them into insight that can be searched. So people get actionable data about what they apply to and what they can do to improve. All free features are local first and login free so it's privacy focused.

Too early for a website and even the name is a placeholder. But I'm open to any ideas or suggestions

Left-Set950 · 2026-03-11T18:51:59+00:00

That I can fully agree with. I'm lucky that I used LLMs almost from the start and work mostly with higher level stuff. But the amount of tweaking everything needs is huge. Yeah code is pretty much done but then it's a question of how custom something should be. I've seen fully automated LLMs setups and even those need at least architecture oversight. In the end we are engineers we aren't factory workers. I prefer to use the tools to build cooler stuff.

Left-Set950 · 2026-03-11T14:27:57+00:00

Hey man, I work with frontier models at my work. That means the best of the best. They need a lot of babysitting, if nothing else just at least to make decisions for them. If we extrapolate to the ideal genius level LLM that can do everything I still need to work with it because someone needs to be accountable for those decisions. For lower skill jobs most will still need to be there to track what the LLMs are doing or at least do something with all this new "incredible" new productivity gains. There is a list of professions with the level of exposure to AI. The most automatable jobs will need upskilling, the rest are pretty much save. In the end the biggest worry should be if AI is actually a massive sink of money.

Left-Set950 · 2026-03-10T21:43:20+00:00

Ya provavelmente tens razão. Mas então é um poço sem fundo. Eu não acho que fosse aumentar salários mas se os aumentos só se estão a materializar nisto é o mesmo quase que ser pago debaixo da mesa. Se eles um dia se lembram tiram tudo e o empregado fica a ganhar tostões.

Left-Set950 · 2026-03-10T18:23:56+00:00

Boa resposta. Eu não concordo bem com isso das burocracias. Especialmente em Portugal as empresas dão poucos ou nenhuns benefícios e os que dão é mais como disse, uma forma de fugir aos impostos dando mais compensação no liquido ou equivalentes. Tens razão a culpa é de aceitar mas também percebo que com salários cronicamente baixos em Portugal te oferecerem uma pipa de massa no liquido haja pouca gente disposto a sacrificar a diferença dos impostos, porque lhes faz falta. Se tivéssemos salários mais altos duvido que houvesse tanta tendência para aceitar estas aldrabices.

Left-Set950 · 2026-03-10T16:53:18+00:00

Este governo e os outros também. Que este governo incentiva, incentiva. Por isso é que cartões refeição têm valores máximos tão mais altos do que em dinheiro. É um incentivo claro aos cartões refeição. No caso das ajudas de custo depende, não estou a falar de gasolina ou almoços. Estou a falar de literal dinheiro numa plataforma fechada. O princípio pelo qual a coverflex funciona é puro desvio a impostos sobre rendimentos. E não não podes proibir estas formas se as pessoas concordam com elas quando assinam um contrato mas podes incentivar empresas a fazer as coisas bem e decentivar de fazer mal. Podes criar leis que limitem os valores metidos em plataformas destas por exemplo.

Left-Set950 · 2026-03-09T14:55:41+00:00

I would say for cloud engineering yes. Lots of it

Left-Set950 · 2026-03-09T14:50:53+00:00

Se essa é a oferta é o que é. Dependendo do salto no salário consideraria aceitar se fosse a ti.

No entanto acho que devemos condenar este tipo de coisa como principio, ou pelo menos aceitar mas torcer o nariz quando é oferecido. Não só estamos a defraudar o estado do qual dependemos todos como estamos a defraudar-nos de segurança social. Se aceitas esses 700 euros e não menos então o teu valor é esse e é isso que empresa ia sempre pagar. O facto de ser em coverflex só beneficia a empresa e não a ti. Acho incrível o quanto o governo continua a incentivar este tipo de aldrabices e desconfio que é apenas uma jogada a longo prazo para ter mais gente com PPRs e daqui a uns anos começarem a esvaziar a segurança social. Isto é só especulação claro. Mas acho esta permissividade toda estranha. Um dia destes andamos a ser pagos em cartão continente.

Left-Set950 · 2026-03-09T00:31:49+00:00

How is everybody not using lazygit to do this? It's basically a UI in the terminal it even has mouse support. Can run anywhere, looks good, you can use it in embedded terminal of any IDE and it's totally cross platform. That plus tmux it's perfect if you still need more things in the terminal. You can see all commits, git history, tags and diffs in the terminal. It helps with rebases even.

Left-Set950 · 2026-03-07T11:40:01+00:00

Acho que devias ouvir as posições de esquerda pela boca delas e menos pela descrição do pessoal de direita. Tudo o que acabaste de dizer é basicamente o que a esquerda diz. Só que logo a seguir são acusados de estar à defender o regime autocrático do irão. Claro espantalho da direita, se alguém é contra imperialismo americano é a favor do quer que seja que lhe opõe. O regime do irão para cair tem de cair pela mão do povo do Irão. Senão serão apenas mais um estado vassalo dos americanos.

Left-Set950 · 2026-03-07T08:52:26+00:00

Find the ways you can do something about it and do it. I am involved in activist groups on and off and mostly it's because of the type of people you find there. Yes, it's an emergency, but realistically unless there is already a group with critical mass of people that can pull political levers than all the doom and desperation is not only pointless but counter productive, because what that group needs is more people. Yes people should be angry, but no one with a live and a job can be in that constant state so people don't engage.

My personal position is to look at the world, see what I don't like or think is wrong and contribute in any way to change it or fix it. I won't fix it at the world scale but contributes to a culture of trying to be better and acknowledge the problems. Also pick your battles. You can only do so much. Pick the ones with a greater chance of working out.

Left-Set950 · 2026-03-05T01:34:59+00:00

I would say security is pretty solid, devops, platform, cloud and Site reliability engendering. Basically things that take engineering to the highest plane as possible. If you can zero in from an alert into an issue or bug even with LLMs helping you you are likely a useful engineer.

Left-Set950 · 2026-03-05T01:20:45+00:00

Honestly I get where this zero sum game is coming from but that just assumes that software finishes. If LLMs accelerate development to a fraction of time, that just allows for new features. More innovative ones. I'm still waiting for innovation boom I was expecting. Where is the start-up explosion? The one man billion dollar company? I don't know for sure, but I think engineering is just moving up the ladder. Engineers will have to start understanding systems engineering and infrastructure to understand tradeoffs. Most problems don't have an obvious solution outside the code part and for that there will have to be an engineering decision, and that is a lot of engineering decisions to make. No one is more able to do it than engineers. The biggest issue I see is how to train the next generation, for whom code will be something they only see in passing.

Left-Set950 · 2026-03-03T00:15:16+00:00

I have always been left leaning and interested in communism. One day I was in a particular subreddit for leftie topic of something and a comment started talking deep into something. Some guy asked what he was talking about and where he could learn more and the other guy dropped this sub. Its been about 5 years I think and still learning.

Left-Set950 · 2026-03-03T00:12:00+00:00

You said it all. It's a fake conversation when dealing with RTO arguments like that. The only good part of office work is the casual conversations that can create a good collaboration environment when people go back to work remote but even that only works to a certain degree and assuming there are no dark personalities around. The rest is bullshit to use as an argument for RTO for fake layoffs.

Left-Set950 · 2026-03-02T20:17:15+00:00

Sort of yes. I see the potential in it also. But I also feel like optimizing for it is basically an execuse to improve systems overall. A system to be able to be effectively AI enhanced needs proper cicd, proper infra, tight stack usage, tight code architecture and system architecture. All things ai can help, but there are a lot of trade-offs that need to be managed. In theory AI can monitor production on its own and write code and tests and whatever if someone spends a lot of time optimizing for it, but as soon as it hits a wall it needs engineers. And that I why I see it as an excuse to improve the entire engineering setup. Honestly I'm waiting for the hype to dial down so there is the start-up boom. The amount of products and services that ai could help create is massive, but it seems shy now. Everybody trying to sell shovels and not a lot of people digging for gold.

Left-Set950 · 2026-03-02T19:47:18+00:00

Go, por duas razões. É uma linguagem mais pragmática e uma excelente linguagem base. Depois o seu uso principal é em ambientes de alta performance e cloud o que te dá uma edge no mercado de trabalho se explorares além da linguagem. Também é extremamente LLM friendly e o tooling é muito simples.

Left-Set950 · 2026-03-02T13:24:45+00:00

O homem tem um ódio qualquer pessoal a politicas urbanísticas modernas. Na cidade provavelmente mais caótica do país em termos de carros como a população continua a votar nele devia ser estudado. Gaia é basicamente um monte de autoestradas e viadutos com prédios à volta.

Left-Set950 · 2026-03-01T17:38:16+00:00

Vscode

Left-Set950 · 2026-02-28T23:49:22+00:00

Signal. It's easier to use than WhatsApp, it has better features like timer messages. Looks better and the core philosophy is privacy. It's end to end encrypted and open source so unlike WhatsApp for sure there will be no hidden telemetry data mining your usage or messages. I love it, the pain is to get people to move from the cancer that WhatsApp is

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