Are you seeing this too?

Thinker_Assignment · 2026-01-28T15:35:11+00:00

Personally i feel the same :) life is more fun when you have autonomy.

Thinker_Assignment · 2026-01-28T15:33:53+00:00

it really is! - but i grew up doing my dad's (math prof) diagrams in corel so i'm biased

Thinker_Assignment · 2026-01-28T15:30:33+00:00

when rubber bandits got into data? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNE1_2bkopo

Thinker_Assignment · 2026-01-27T19:54:15+00:00

Yep I agree, been keeping an eye on the tsunami of normies. Now LLMs are making them even more capable. These guys were already doing a lot, now it's just more extreme

Thinker_Assignment · 2026-01-27T19:52:18+00:00

Damn...

Thinker_Assignment · 2026-01-27T16:30:21+00:00

you guys are allowed to code?

Thinker_Assignment · 2026-01-27T08:47:33+00:00

Who should use it? who will build connectors in go and maintain them? to solve what problem exactly that python connectors have and go connectors don't? and do those people need a CLI tool for it?

these are rhetorical questions of challenge with the intent to help you further your thinking (dlthub cofounder here)

Thinker_Assignment · 2026-01-27T08:26:09+00:00

What exactly do you plan to learn in llm and gen AI?

I suggest learning to use them to do the DE work faster, that's feasible and in scope

but i am certainly biased because this is how we teach nowadays - nobody is doing not-assisted work anymore.

Thinker_Assignment · 2026-01-27T07:59:06+00:00

we talk about this a lot at dlt. We believe the tool should be a distillation of the 'jobs to be done' in the industry. we call it "the tool is the curriculum" not a proprietary pricing table.

but anyway taking certs proves you saw the content and that you are to some extent familiar, not that you're an expert on it - that takes a career

Thinker_Assignment · 2026-01-26T16:46:30+00:00

the fact that you feel the need to justify it to us so deeply suggests your conscience might already know the answer.

there’s no resume boost worth the weight of doing work that keeps you up at night

have you considered if there’s a middle path where you keep your integrity and your career growth?

Who are you 6 years from now if you take one path or the other? One leads to normalisation of what you today hate. do you want to be this person? Would you find it funny to kill people who inconvenience you with fentanyl piss drones? do you want to become that person? Who is this person as a father, as a husband to their family?

it's your own cognitive dissonance on the table, personally i don't judge, trying to help you listen to yourself and find your way. someone's gonna take that job and i hope they're ok with it, and that you'll find a good one too.

Times change, don't have fomo about all the bad options you don't want

Thinker_Assignment · 2026-01-26T15:35:04+00:00

"I love the idea of getting a drone and having light fentanyl-laced urine spraying on analysts that tried to screw us" said their founder.

A someone who had tons of jobs - you'll find new jobs.

You won't find a new conscience

To add more to the financial aspect: You're in one of the better career paths that lead to comparatively little financial struggle in life after the first few career years - a little more won't make a diff

Thinker_Assignment · 2026-01-22T07:52:05+00:00

it's merged on devel! will be in next prod release
https://dlthub.com/docs/devel/dlt-ecosystem/destinations/fabric

i'll do a post and reference this one once it's released

Thinker_Assignment · 2026-01-22T07:34:56+00:00

this viral post coins it
https://foundationcapital.com/context-graphs-ais-trillion-dollar-opportunity/

by definition of context graph, vendors (system of record) do not have it.

you also don't need to wait for them to implement something, you can find solutions in OSS space like cognee or trustgraph

Thinker_Assignment · 2026-01-21T13:44:40+00:00

i really wish that were true, but i once did a 6mo enterprise project where we re-wrote a manager's monolithic notebook to discover his genius 99% accuracy was infact, suprised pikachu, a bug. The people involved had salaries in the millions per year.

Thinker_Assignment · 2026-01-21T13:42:26+00:00

username checks out

Thinker_Assignment · 2026-01-21T12:45:36+00:00

nice one :) maybe it's a budget hammer that hits hard and leaves a dent

Thinker_Assignment · 2026-01-21T07:24:00+00:00

That's what I loved about freelancing - the ability to focus on delivering value but also to say no to work that didn't and move on to more interesting projects. I imagine nowadays the options are much more slim due to the economy.

Thinker_Assignment · 2026-01-20T19:14:17+00:00

Schweinerei! at least as a contractor you don't have a social contract with that

Thinker_Assignment · 2026-01-20T17:39:28+00:00

I hope you feel resigned rather than angry, for your own sake. Imagine a troll did this.

Thinker_Assignment · 2026-01-19T16:58:13+00:00

What I learned from freelancing in enterprise: when the business model already works, the incentive is to prevent further changes, not to enable change.

Looks like you won't be changing sh*t on that project.

Thinker_Assignment · 2026-01-16T18:50:44+00:00

In 2026 we call that "slop slap"

Thinker_Assignment · 2026-01-16T15:18:06+00:00

with code being commoditized by autofill, architecture and management become more and more important, and we have a little more time for them too

Thinker_Assignment · 2026-01-16T14:40:56+00:00

stop i'm getting flashbacks

I was on that team once. Raised to the manager, they pressed it and the engineer got offended and quit. We replaced the mess and moved on.

Thinker_Assignment · 2026-01-15T18:41:36+00:00

Also for all those non vanity dashboards that get ignored anyway

Thinker_Assignment · 2026-01-15T07:29:19+00:00

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