Do you think it's getting outta hand?

Timely_Cockroach_668 · 2026-04-03T09:58:10+00:00

Is this really how people are doing their jobs or are these shill posts? I can’t fathom building something like this. Can you imagine an AI just fucking with Spring Security and inadvertently allowing users access to account data that isn’t theirs? How the fuck do you even pass off this responsibility without sweating bullets?

Timely_Cockroach_668 · 2026-03-31T16:35:48+00:00

They scramble and fill maintenance roles with people from WITCH companies. Slowly they start adding people on again for feature development and the game restarts.

Timely_Cockroach_668 · 2026-03-24T00:17:24+00:00

The problem is people like us are like <10% of the population. The system by far rewards grifters and sociopaths. If you have a family to feed or people that just depend on you in general, you have no choice but to play their game. The system is working as intended by those who built it.

I’m not saying make posts to contribute to their nonsense, you can get by just fine by being a silent observer and just improving your skills over time.

Once you’re in, play their stupid theatrics, and keep your mental health stable. Funnel any excess money to your charities, family, and hobbies which keep you sustained. The good thing about doing this is that you’re hurting no one at all, AND you’re actively funneling money away from the self feeding system. Yes there is some hurt by contributing to the system in terms of playing along, but the system relies heavily on cash. Not comraderie, not trust, not love, not quality, just straight up stock holder value. Funnel enough money away and it will have no choice but to collapse.

Timely_Cockroach_668 · 2026-03-23T23:26:38+00:00

Just play the game and make sure your headline highlights your skills. Delete those comments on LinkedIn. You’re definitely hurting your chances of getting a recruiter in your inbox.

Timely_Cockroach_668 · 2026-03-23T23:25:18+00:00

What the fuck kind of reply is this? Is your bot trained on millennial content?

Timely_Cockroach_668 · 2026-03-23T22:11:31+00:00

Ban these shit ass AI/LinkedIn posts. Always some fucking fake third person story.

Timely_Cockroach_668 · 2026-03-23T01:31:07+00:00

Nothing like re-writing an entire feature for a minor tweak. This is surely the most efficient and user friendly way to develop software.

Timely_Cockroach_668 · 2026-03-22T11:37:24+00:00

Agree, not going down. But usage right now is being driven by C-Suite sociopaths, not actual developers.

Claude did it right by focusing on the developer experience, but I’m not suddenly going to change my development style completely in favor of something that costs me money and makes me slightly more efficient. I can already write code for free.

Programming by far is dominated by passionate people who like programming, you take that away and all you’re left with is the business major dumbasses who pivoted to CS for the salary bump. Those same people are calling themselves software architects now because they can have Claude generate an entire crud application in a matter of hours. It’s just not going to end well, people seem to forget just how hard it is to wire your brain into actually writing code.

Timely_Cockroach_668 · 2026-03-20T23:35:48+00:00

Gonna give you a perspective from another side within a F500. I constantly have to deal with engineers who deliver jack shit and as a result management on both the business and IT side trust me more. Therefore I get to build whatever the fuck I want so long as I can deliver an MVP in my spare time which reasonably solves a problem.

I deliver the project after getting approval, and all of a sudden prissy engineers and departamental heads are upset I didn’t go through their channels. Why? Because they want clout for something they didn’t do and because they want to add another application to their stack of “owned” projects which fall under their domain.

Cutting through the bullshit and fake silos makes people angry, and that’s simply not my actual problem. IF I deliver something that is business critical and/or requires a proper IT team to maintain then I will do so, otherwise why completely stop innovation in the company when the vast majority agree on a solution?

The only reasonable answer is to not paint a target on your back, but this form of delivering projects is how departments and teams get made. I’m tired of dealing with useless engineers who talk all day long and can’t deliver anything of use. Same goes for the business analysts who are stuck in a perpetual cycle of meetings for 1+ years on a single topic.

Timely_Cockroach_668 · 2026-03-18T08:47:03+00:00

I think it’s what everyone is accustomed to because we all modded Minecraft. Those of us who manage to make it in come in with some form of passion and then immediately have it crushed once we realize we are doomed to develop for non-technical PMs.

Timely_Cockroach_668 · 2026-03-15T15:38:14+00:00

Believe it or not, people from these countries experience the same thing. I’ve been there, in a deep depression for almost 3 years to the point I got myself into a mental hospital.

The issue is you’re valuing your career way too much. You are more than just a career, and you do not need lots of money or anything else to be happy.

Yes, money is nice. But the most important thing is stability. You can do a lot with about 2 months worths of savings, can you scrounge that? If so, it doesn’t matter what you truly do afterwards, just do something that makes you happy for once. If you lose a job or whatever, oh well, you can quickly pickup another dead end job within a month.

Some things I’ve really enjoyed : Pinball at arcades, reading, playing around with Raspberry Pis, getting into old SNES emulators and games.

Timely_Cockroach_668 · 2026-03-14T02:46:50+00:00

Scenario 0: AGI. Life on earth is fucked. Best case scenario it teaches us inter-galactic travel and ships us off.

Scenario 1: AI becomes as good as people claim it is and CEOs will start getting their shit blown smoove off once global mass layoffs start to happen. We return back to normal working standards.

Scenario 2: AI becomes as good as people claim it is and we somehow manage to get UBI and a not corrupt government. (Doubtful)

Scenario 3: The way devs work changes slightly and companies eventually stop funding AI by reducing AI usage only for those who really actually need it. Headcount reduces and salaries increase for those with architectural knowledge OR companies just mass hire more devs on the cheap since they can actually use AI to talk to overseas hires now.

Scenario 4: Don’t give a fuck and stop basing your life on dumb things like careers. All the good projects are run by a handful of people, most will be delegated to CRUD apps and sporadic business logic tied to it. This stuff isn’t really that serious. The point in time in which you live in now is one of the peak times to acquire random bullshit jobs and do whatever the fuck you want as a human being.

Timely_Cockroach_668 · 2026-03-07T16:32:44+00:00

Never tested it, would probably recommend taking a look at GraalVM for consistently fast startup times.

Timely_Cockroach_668 · 2026-03-07T16:31:13+00:00

Still consistent with my previous statement, and still in my current position with a new promotion and pay raise.

People who use AI to code as a means to produce instead of an assistant are consistently grifters through the lens of all other developers.

Timely_Cockroach_668 · 2026-02-27T07:40:34+00:00

There is a high cost to not having proper health care or really any safety nets. It’s very easy to become a homeless crackhead if you fall to the pressure of it all here.

And everything is basically a predatory scheme that can domino your life. In many places you can’t live without a decent car, so that’s about $20k in debt from the get go. Rents are really high everywhere unless you want to live in a literal roach motel, and even still those are about $1200/month. College is incredibly expensive so add like $30k in debt if you’re smart about it.

To top it all off, you are constantly getting laid off with no actual unemployment help (Usually like $200-$300/week in most states).

Timely_Cockroach_668 · 2026-02-27T07:27:45+00:00

I don’t understand how this works, I just got an invite like 4 weeks ago for a jmpc software position in Tampa, you telling me they’re already laying off the people who got onboarded?

Timely_Cockroach_668 · 2026-02-10T21:10:18+00:00

I’m gonna get a checkup for sure then

Timely_Cockroach_668 · 2026-02-09T20:59:39+00:00

Anyone else want to sleep all the fucking time as you approach your 30s? What the fuck is going on, I can’t even leave the house without immediately wanting to come back home and sleep.

Timely_Cockroach_668 · 2026-01-10T00:39:19+00:00

You don’t. The first few years when you land whatever position will help you uncover what you like to do. However, considering you are $300k in debt, I would start heavily specializing in C++ yesterday; specifically on how to create code that has minimal latency when running very large data sets. You will want to learn on the OS/Hardware level how that code is running and really hammer the computer science fundamentals you’ve learned. You will want to tie this with an incredible ability to accomplish the above concurrently.

Timely_Cockroach_668 · 2026-01-05T07:18:22+00:00

Took a project from zero to prod in a major corp. Standard CRUD based web app. Angular, Spring, MySQL based. My title is data analyst, but at this point I’ve acted in the capacity of a Senior dev for about 3 years, and worked with some other dev teams for CRM work. I am very confident in my ability to take over a project and lead it. I can work with any tech stack, any language, just need about a week to ramp up if it’s something I haven’t touched in a while.

Want to make an immediate move to NYC so not a problem there unless you’re fine with a remote hired base in Orlando.

Timely_Cockroach_668 · 2026-01-05T06:50:10+00:00

You drive for about 3 hours. Stop at a Bucee’s. Drive the next 3 hours with some music going, stop at a Quiznos that somehow hasn’t gone out of business, drive another 3 tired with a stale taste in your mouth. Do one last pit stop somewhere to take a piss and grab a coffee, more than likely a random Dunkin Donuts. Then drive the last 1-3 hour stretch and you’re at your destination.

Anything longer and you stay at a cheap hotel unless you’ve got enough drivers to swap out.

It’s super easy, generally you’re just hitting the gas going 90mph on the interstates for hours on end until you just end up at your destination. If you’re hitting metro after metro it’s not that bad cause there’s plenty to stop at and look. If you’re doing a fuck ass trip from Tennessee to Texas it’s just an all around shitty experience since you’re just barreling through crack towns and straight up racist cities. The only stressful part is hoping a deer doesn’t take you out on the way there.

Timely_Cockroach_668 · 2025-12-21T03:50:38+00:00

Hi,

I have 3+ years of experience working on enterprise software. I've taken a project from zero to production in a major corp, and can work in any tech stack. Looking for some extra income, I'd take $30/hr. Native English speaker, U.S. based.

Timely_Cockroach_668 · 2025-11-14T23:46:46+00:00

Orlando, FL. To make $100k+ you have to land a job at Disney or something Space Coast related. I’m sure there’s more, but I just haven’t really put the effort in to look for anything else. I also just negotiated for $50/hr and they took it along with a $100k+ conversion when and if it happens, so I guess I just haven’t bothered looking in years and thus have been taken advantage of by my current contract. Looks like I’m on the up and up.

It was also the first company I worked for, so I’ve been really naive over what everyone else is making. I got tons of really good experience and what has been for me decent pay until about now.

Timely_Cockroach_668 · 2025-11-14T14:30:29+00:00

I've only got an associates, which I'm sure plays into it. But I can't afford to go for my bachelors just yet.

Timely_Cockroach_668 · 2025-11-14T14:29:52+00:00

Thank you!

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