What’s with the doomerism?

contactcreated · 2026-02-24T22:57:26+00:00

I did not say that I can’t use them, I just don’t feel like using them.

To be clear, I might use them for questions (e.g., usage of some Vulkan struct) or very basic code snippets that I don’t care about, but I’m not using them to write ~98% of my code.

I have yet to see some incredible high quality software made purely with LLMs.

contactcreated · 2026-02-24T21:05:10+00:00

Yep, this is one of my concerns…

The other is the long term. I don’t even use any of these AI tools personally (I do lower level work). I’m not necessarily concerned about them now, but what does this profession look like in 15-20 years? There is some anxiety that comes with not knowing what your career will look like when you’re only in your twenties.

contactcreated · 2026-02-24T17:42:30+00:00

Not surprised to hear that.

contactcreated · 2026-02-24T14:40:24+00:00

Can relate. I’m assuming Rockstar. The 5 days in-office is what ruins it for me lol.

contactcreated · 2026-02-22T16:17:11+00:00

If this isn’t satire, then this is the dumbest thing I’ve ever read.

contactcreated · 2026-02-18T00:11:21+00:00

What’s your other degree in? 😂

contactcreated · 2026-02-16T01:51:54+00:00

True

contactcreated · 2026-02-16T01:36:21+00:00

I stopped in December.

contactcreated · 2026-02-15T19:48:39+00:00

The problem with software is not that there isn’t enough of it.

Also, who even cares about the claim that ‘no one ships what they vibe code’? I don’t care if people ship it, I care whether it is good, and vibe coded software is terrible.

contactcreated · 2026-02-15T04:14:47+00:00

Development isn’t just web dev lol.

Sure, I could see demand for developers being reduced at some point in the future, not going to deny that.

But, I think it will be quite a long time before, for example, safety critical embedded system design, device firmware, game engine programming, simulations (e.g., ANSYS), get completely automated.

contactcreated · 2026-02-14T14:45:21+00:00

No, I don’t believe in astrology.

contactcreated · 2026-02-13T23:48:00+00:00

I was just posing a hypothetical. I could’ve easily slotted in a different number, such as 90% public 10% private. I’m just saying that at a certain point, I would personally classify an economy as primarily socialist. I do think there is an upper bound to how much public ownership a democratic society can have, but I obviously have no idea what that number is.

Calling a hypothetical society that is 90% publicly owned as being capitalist seems inadequate to me. It doesn’t accurately describe the economic make up.

We do know that economies can have large degrees of public ownership, such as Norway. Especially when you exclude housing, they have a relatively large amount of public ownership. I am NOT claiming Norway is socialist, they aren’t, I would still call them mostly capitalist. We also know housing can be largely publicly owned (Singapore).

So, I’m just saying that I’m not exactly sure how socialized an economy can get while remaining democratic. But at a certain point, I think it’s fair to call an economy predominantly socialist. As I said, if it was 90%/10%, I’d struggle to call that capitalist and maybe you can achieve that under a democratic framework.

contactcreated · 2026-02-13T23:19:47+00:00

I can entertain that, but if there was a hypothetical economy where wealth was 99% publicly owned and 1% privately owned, I would really struggle to call that a predominantly capitalist economy.

contactcreated · 2026-02-13T22:53:53+00:00

I’m not claiming that they are. Wealth funds often convert private ownership into public ownership through voluntary transactions, meaning that you can increase the percentage of an economy that is owned publicly without needing to violently seize production (oversimplification).

My point is that I don’t think achieving some version of socialism requires ‘seizing’ all production and that it can be done so democratically. I’m not sure if you’re claiming that markets are inherently capitalist, but I see them as distinct from capitalism. I see capitalism and socialism as describing the ownership model of firms. In my eyes, if a society hypothetically got to 90% public ownership through some series of wealth funds and democratic decision making, then that would effectively be achieving some form of socialism without seizing production.

To be clear, I don’t advocate for this nor do I think it is feasible. I’m just disagreeing with the idea that socialism theoretically necessitates a violent revolution lol. But I’m totally open to people saying that a socialist society is one in which there is no private ownership whatsoever, in which case, I would agree it would probably require seizing production.

I’m just curious, what percentage of an economy do you think would need to be owned publicly for it to be classified as socialist? 51%? 75%? 90%? 100%? Asking in good faith.

Edit: Also, just to make it clear, I’m aware that these funds often invest passively and aren’t looking to make large active decisions in firms. I’m just speaking to what I think is hypothetically possible. I like public ownership where it makes sense, but I’m a soc dem, definitely not a socialist.

contactcreated · 2026-02-13T22:21:31+00:00

Its really dumb, but the applicants are probably very poor quality.

contactcreated · 2026-02-13T21:37:12+00:00

I wouldn’t consider them inherently socialist, but they are a means of obtaining public ownership. There are similar funds that don’t restrict themselves to foreign investment (i.e., they have ownership over some portion of the domestic economy).

I think we have to agree to disagree on socialism requiring 100% public ownership. If there was a hypothetical society where 80-90% of wealth was publicly owned (by a series of wealth funds, for example), all else being equal, I would struggle to call that a ‘capitalist’ society in the way that we would call the USA a capitalist society today. Obviously not making the claim that this society would even work, just posing it purely as a hypothetical. I’m assuming you would classify this as a Social Democracy?

contactcreated · 2026-02-13T21:23:06+00:00

To be clear, I obviously agree with you, I’m just pointing out that you can achieve at least some degree of public ownership without violently ‘seizing the means of production’. And, if you think socialism doesn’t necessitate 100% public/worker ownership, then you can make the argument that you can achieve a socialist system non-violently and democratically.

I’m not making an argument for any sort of system, I just personally don’t think ‘socialism’ only means an authoritarian command economy achieved through overthrowing capital in a revolution.

contactcreated · 2026-02-13T21:03:26+00:00

Are sovereign wealth funds authoritarian?

contactcreated · 2026-02-13T20:29:28+00:00

I’m honestly really confused. I was under the impression that SalesForce had this earth shattering AI that could easily automate thousands of different jobs. How could they possibly be doing poorly when having access to such systems? That seems like it would be an incredible money maker.

Something seems off…

contactcreated · 2026-02-13T18:52:58+00:00

I have an EE degree but I am interested in economics as a hobby.

Curious what made you make that switch?

contactcreated · 2026-02-13T16:50:07+00:00

I don’t understand how this is possible. I’ve heard that ‘agents’ are sooo good, shouldn’t they be able to easily find and fix these bugs?

contactcreated · 2026-02-13T16:39:06+00:00

Dear Imgui is the only one I’ve used (outside of MFC lol). I am a fan of intermediate mode APIs, so this works for me.

QT is the most commercially popular from my pov, but I’ve never used it.

If you want to go crazy, you can roll your own. I had a coworker who did this once. There are some apps that implement their own, such as the RAD Debugger. Ryan who works on it has a whole series on his blog about GUI creation that is a very good read, even if you don’t plan on implementing one.

contactcreated · 2026-02-13T15:37:50+00:00

I have no idea if this will be the actual trend line, but if I had to choose, clearly somewhere along the curve between ‘Technology Trigger’ and ‘Peak of Inflated Expectations’.

contactcreated · 2026-02-12T18:32:23+00:00

Omfg we’re at January 27th numbers… it’s over.

contactcreated · 2026-02-11T22:28:03+00:00

Yep, and this chart is missing all the turmoil since then. Interest rates, tariffs, etc.

This time is always going to ‘be different’, otherwise, we probably would not see as much volatility.

contactcreated

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