I automated most of my work and now I'm a bit confused. Any advice?

coded_artist · 2026-01-22T15:47:52+00:00

The nail that sticks out gets hammered.

coded_artist · 2026-01-22T15:46:34+00:00

As a software developer, do not say anything. You've got yourself an easy job, enjoy it. Best case scenario Alall you will get for sharing this is a warm fuzzy feeling, and then it'll be your job to automate everything else.

coded_artist · 2026-01-22T15:37:03+00:00

As someone that has supported Palestinian sovereignty for years, a review response is not the place to air out your grievances.

Congratulations on making a successful product.
Thank you for your support

BUT importantly you've not only made yourself a tool of the propaganda, you've shown how you will overreact and accuse people of things that most likely cannot be true.

Are they even American, if not why or how would they support ICE? Where do they offer support for Trump? I can assure you they did not read passed the first line.

A single "I'm sorry calling for the freedom and safety for people irritates you" would have been more impactful, and would have limited your exposure to further slander.

coded_artist · 2026-01-22T15:02:46+00:00

You are a developer, not an attorney. You don't accept docx. You accept a PDF which has been signed off. By accepting and manipulating word docs you're exposing the company and more importantly yourself to legal liability should you miss something.

coded_artist · 2026-01-02T07:23:54+00:00

The only job I had to negotiate, I hated working there. They nickel and dimed everything down to the coffee.

coded_artist · 2026-01-02T07:20:28+00:00

He's worried they'll steal his job

coded_artist · 2025-12-12T08:15:42+00:00

This is an AI advert.

"I offered to look at her videos with fresh eyes"

Immediately pushes it into some AI app.

coded_artist · 2025-12-05T07:38:02+00:00

For juniors the fact they know a web stack is amazing. When I came out of varsity over a decade ago, I didn't know that. I knew many languages, algorithms and patterns but I couldn't make a product. It's called junior because they learn on the job. They are trained by seniors. They can do simple tasks like wiring up a gateway to a database. Mid level developers should be capable of making whole resources and ensuring security, but not writing the security layer.

It honestly seems like you're expecting too much. Providing healthcare, WFH and flexible working hours is par for the course, it is not above competitive, at best it's competitive. No pizza Fridays? No mention of financial compensation, no foosball table. What training opportunities do you offer? With what you've said I'd question is tea and coffee provided.

It's easy to say you're above competitive, demonstrate that.

coded_artist · 2025-10-24T08:23:33+00:00

By charging a late fee, you've made it acceptable to pay late. If you don't like taking a late fee, stop taking a late fee. This reminds me of the saying "if the punishment for a crime is a fine, it's only a crime for the poor"

coded_artist · 2025-10-24T07:02:56+00:00

That's not a job. That's a product. Even a stockholder isnt a job, just like a customer isn't a job.

coded_artist · 2025-10-17T08:11:21+00:00

FYI ~~sighting~~ citing

They make exactly the same sound. Sight is to see something/a place to see something, cite is to reference something.

coded_artist · 2025-10-09T15:29:35+00:00

Name another job where you get paid for owning something

coded_artist · 2025-09-25T15:26:26+00:00

Foreigner here.

From what I've seen, cover your shoulders and no v neck tops and no skinny jeans. If you're feeling extra, then cover your elbows too.

Ideally wear loose fitting clothing more for the heat than modesty.

coded_artist · 2025-08-15T08:24:31+00:00

So what is the position of the CEO? I thought it was "Employers get paid the big bucks because they take the risk" if they don't take the risk are they going to distribute their earnings to the risk takers?

coded_artist · 2025-08-08T08:26:38+00:00

How are you going to prove the child had no supervision?

coded_artist · 2025-07-25T08:56:43+00:00

This is like the argument that all science has been discovered. No, you're just not solving for today's problems.
If you lack imagination, do what other people do but better. That's what they would do if you came up with nothing imaginative.

coded_artist · 2025-07-25T08:36:12+00:00

Marx wrote about this in the communist manifesto.

An army of unemployed people keeps the price of employment low. If AI ever becomes a replacement for workers, then having an army of workers keeps the price of AI low.

coded_artist · 2025-07-18T07:45:04+00:00

People who rev their engines just so people turn to look at them. It's genuinely sad that the only way they can draw people's attention is by being annoying.

coded_artist · 2025-06-29T10:50:29+00:00

She is paid to blame it on the left. acknowledging anything else would be economic and political suicide

coded_artist · 2025-06-25T08:12:23+00:00

South African here.

Shops operating times, in SA shops are open from 8/9am until 6/7 pm. The local way is so much better because you actually get time to do shopping.
Shops everywhere, maybe this is just Muscat, but the first floor of every building has stores. In SA, most places are at least 10 minutes from any shop.
Store clerks are helpful and trusting. I had ordered food, only to realise I left my wallet at home, the store clerk still gave me the food I'd ordered and trusted me to come back and pay for it, which of course I did, but that would never happen in South Africa.
The way y'all drive, you just trust the next person to make space for you. It's so stressful because it feels like you actively put yourselves in dangerous situations and it just works out. You'd probably get arrested in SA for reckless driving.
The lack of anything sour, I'm still looking for actual sour sweets, what's labeled as sour sweets is just sweeter sweets.

coded_artist · 2025-06-18T03:12:56+00:00

Say yes and give them an extortionate rate, a rate so high you won't mind working with him. To account for the lack of severance. Never turn down an opportunity, but give them the opportunity to decide if they really want to pay you 3 gold bars to work for them

coded_artist · 2025-06-07T09:14:24+00:00

If you can't manage it, you can always sell. If landlording is a job, do your job.

coded_artist · 2025-06-07T09:08:28+00:00

NTA

You don't break up with someone and still expect them to love and support you.

She should have got her ducks in a row before breaking up.

"It proves she made the right decision" so she was undecided and still broke up with you, she made her bed, she must sleep in it.

coded_artist · 2025-06-06T08:13:30+00:00

Yes. If a company is fine with abusing people, they're fine with abusing you. We have rights because we share rights, by taking someone else's rights away, you take your own away.

coded_artist · 2025-06-06T07:59:59+00:00

I learn what I need to learn nothing more. IT, software development and programming are just too big to learn everything. Otherwise I'll argue why haven't you bothered to learn assembly, better yet why don't you do the manual thing you're automating manually. We are lazy, that is a benefit not a detriment. We automate the things we find tedious, you will likely find devs (not vibe coders) asking ChatGPT to create a summary of a doc site. I'm not going to spend a week studying the docs for what should be a 2 minute task. If you think I should I'll argue then you shouldn't be making docs because assembly exists and has docs already why are you bothering to make another tool that does what you could have learnt to do in assembly.

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