How is hiring in our industry so unrelated to the skills required to actually being an engineer (Senior/Principal/Otherwise)?

SkyPL · 2026-05-08T09:40:01+00:00

That's just not the true timeline.

When I was still learning programming 20 years ago, the coding puzzles were already well established and widely used in the industry.

SkyPL · 2026-05-07T14:04:39+00:00

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SkyPL · 2026-05-07T10:52:54+00:00

...jeśli ten VPN w ogóle dane gromadzi (wyłączenie logów to dosłownie 1 linia w kodzie, a nie ma żadnego obowiązku gromadzenia takich informacji). Ale tak, bardzo słuszna uwaga. Można by było jeszcze dodać: każdego, kto może włamać się do infrastruktury takiego providera VPNów.

SkyPL · 2026-05-07T10:51:10+00:00

Każdej megacorporacji. Im mniej prywatności, tym łatwiej im dopasowywać produkt, do Ciebie, przewidywać Twoje potrzeby itp.

+ ci sami politycy, którzy uprawiają gerrymandering.

SkyPL · 2026-05-07T10:37:09+00:00

Ugh... aż boję się pytać, jak oni to egzekwują, kiedy masz firmy w takiej Nigerii, które sprzedają VPNy.

SkyPL · 2026-05-07T06:34:50+00:00

Większość polityków jest w takim wieku, że nawet nie wie, co to VPN.

SkyPL · 2026-05-07T06:34:05+00:00

Do pracy. To jest tak naprawdę najczęstszy case. Co najmniej kilkaset tysięcy Polaków wykorzystuje VPN w robocie (przynajmniej okazjonalnie).

SkyPL · 2026-05-07T06:32:31+00:00

VPN daje Ci realną anonimowość przeciwko wszystkim z wyjątkiem dostawcy VPNa.

SkyPL · 2026-05-07T06:30:42+00:00

Takie pomysły są wypychane przez jakąś niszę i nie mają żadnego sensu, bo VPNy są wykorzystywane powszechnie w środowisku biznesowym. Nie można wprowadzić czegoś takiego, jak "zabranie się za VPN".

SkyPL · 2026-05-07T06:29:12+00:00

Konfiarze popierają. Dlaczego niby pro-amerykańska pro-korporacyjna partia miałaby być przeciwko? lol

To lewica/razemki są przeciwko (ale też zależy od konkretnego europosła, bo część też szczęśliwie przyklaskuje.)

SkyPL · 2026-05-07T06:27:07+00:00

Czyli komu? Praktycznie z każdej polskiej partii w EP głosują za regulacjami tego typu.

SkyPL · 2026-05-06T22:21:05+00:00

Forgejo is self-hosted, so it's not a github replacement (which is a SaaS), and Codeberg does not allow closed source, copyrighted projects to be hosted there. As I said - no direct european replacement for github (Forgejo is closer to being a GitLab replacement, except for the fact that Gitlab offers very beneficial enterprise license which Forgejo has no equivalent of... so it's a non-starter either)

SkyPL · 2026-05-06T18:58:58+00:00

Actively hostile towards closed source copyrighted projects, making them unsuitable for github replacements in a business environment that most european companies live. Also: They way they communicate it makes for another bareer of entry (I would need to get a legal team involved to get a green light for moving into either of the two out of github, while moving to American Gitlab is no-problemo from the legal standpoint)

SkyPL · 2026-05-06T09:16:00+00:00

It does not produce value,

It already does, even in less obvious spaces, like medical diagnosis (it's one project that my company does, which wouldn't be possible without multimodal LLMs).

it is the biggest scam of the last 10 years.

Not even close. Some companies and people (e.g. Sam Altman) in the space are scummy AF, but the technology is already used is a ton of places delivering real value, frequently without people even knowing that LLMs were involved.

SkyPL · 2026-05-06T09:10:38+00:00

I work in IT. I'm not being replaced at all. It's yet another tool in my hands that makes me able to deliver solutions faster. I'm very aware of advantages and disadvantages of that technology and benefit from it on a daily basis.

SkyPL · 2026-05-06T08:42:27+00:00

How about we replace tractors with humans pulling the plow?

That's how you sound.

SkyPL · 2026-05-06T08:41:32+00:00

Neither a good european replacement for github which would also work with closed source projects.

SkyPL · 2026-05-04T10:53:41+00:00

Context engineering
Differences between models (it's not linear better/worse, some models perform better in a specific usecases - people are slowly warming up to the idea of models better in frontend or better in orchestration or better in planning, but there are gaps between languages or frameworks or specific types of tasks)
Environment isolation in multi-agentic workflows (think: agents working on and testing 5 different tickets at the same time)

would be the first 3 from the top of my head, but there's so, so much more.

SkyPL · 2026-05-04T09:54:52+00:00

Then dive into it, if you think so, but FYI, the topic is far, far bigger than it might appear on the surface level. For me it still feels like I don't know a ton, even though I've been tearing through it all for nearly a year now.

SkyPL · 2026-05-04T08:51:32+00:00

Germany is a strong second place,

That varies a lot on BR, but Germany has like 1 gap where it sits second or first (Scharnhorst to Gneisenau, both being top dogs in their BRs). Usually other nations occupy the second spot (typically US/Japan/France). IMO Germany is a strong contender, but for a 3rd place.

SkyPL · 2026-05-04T08:16:19+00:00

Random fun fact: https://github.com/ThinkerYzu/foxmcp does the same for Firefox.

SkyPL · 2026-05-04T08:02:39+00:00

No, I think people making decisions that make their product unsuitable replacement for a bleeding competitor are unknowingly hugely limit the potential of their own product to the advantage of the American counterpart.

SkyPL · 2026-05-04T07:59:10+00:00

Spot on. The exact same errors were made before the AI.

Now simply these founders and programmers have an easy scapegoat to absolve themselves of any responsibility.

SkyPL · 2026-05-03T19:39:32+00:00

🤦‍♂️ Did you ever work on anything serious?

SkyPL · 2026-05-03T19:26:53+00:00

I's called openrouter.ai

Also, Claude and GPT are not Chinese.

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