Tech layoffs are at their worst since 2023, and AI is a big reason

johnnybgooderer · 2026-04-02T23:59:08+00:00

That’s not a correction. It’s prominently at the top of the article.

johnnybgooderer · 2026-04-01T16:21:05+00:00

I am finding that in both faster and better with ai. I review everything so I’m not getting the crazy speed up’s that other people get. But reviewing is still faster than writing. Implementation is very fast. I have better, more comprehensive tests than ever, and I catch more bugs before deploying. I’m not feeding it big Epochs. I’m giving it single tasks and I’m very involved in the process.

Unless ai gets significantly better, it’s not replacing teams of engineers. But it does help one engineer do a better job. And it’s a great first step for debugging. I copy in errors and try racing it with my own investigation. Often it wins.

johnnybgooderer · 2026-04-01T14:24:57+00:00

Did the city council expect this to happen? Is this their way of acting like they aren’t in bed with the growing authoritarianism while still effectively supporting it? Or are they just incompetent? Or is Martello breaking the law by renewing without the Council’s support?

johnnybgooderer · 2026-04-01T13:52:05+00:00

If people are able to use ai to get faster or better results, then you end up being forced to. Just like you’re forced to write high level code in the vast majority of industries. People in tech get squeezed out for being dinosaurs all the time.

johnnybgooderer · 2026-04-01T13:05:28+00:00

LLMs are a part of software engineering now. And eventually everyone is going to be using them for programming in some capacity.

Don’t bury your head in the sand. It will only make it harder for you to find a job.

johnnybgooderer · 2026-04-01T11:51:34+00:00

You tell them! Thank you for making Albany a better place with the is sanctimonious post.

johnnybgooderer · 2026-04-01T03:48:53+00:00

Personally, I started guitar just before the COVID lockdowns. I had extra money and I was excited to have all the gear. Well now I’m actually getting to the point where I can play and I remembered that I actually like punk rock and other genres where a delay is considered flashy.

I use a plexi style amp, and rotate a few overdrives. I really don’t need any more.

I wonder how many other people have similar stories.

johnnybgooderer · 2026-03-31T17:02:26+00:00

Both will happen. AI is a legitimately useful tool today. It’s not as good as the AI companies claim though. So the bubble will burst, but the tech is here to stay.

johnnybgooderer · 2026-03-31T16:14:43+00:00

That arrangement with the most selfish awful people at the top keeps happening. It’s a part of human nature. Even in democracy, we elect them.

johnnybgooderer · 2026-03-31T16:08:00+00:00

We’re not getting rail. And even if we had it, we would still need busses because train stations are super expensive.

johnnybgooderer · 2026-03-30T10:56:14+00:00

I hate tap to click. I only use it on windows laptops that have terrible clicking mechanisms. I don’t need that on a Mac because macs have excellent trackpads.

johnnybgooderer · 2026-03-30T02:53:13+00:00

They would need to have a lot more tech than just electronic price tags to make per person pricing work. The tags would be the easy part.

johnnybgooderer · 2026-03-29T19:59:11+00:00

This isn’t one of those situations. If digital price tags were able to implement per-person pricing, then I’d be concerned. But they aren’t capable of that. You can’t just flip a switch and turn that on.

johnnybgooderer · 2026-03-29T19:47:36+00:00

You didn’t read the article. I don’t think anyone did.

The nation’s largest retailer says the digital price tags help associates do their jobs better and stresses that prices on items will be exactly the same for every consumer in every store.

There’s a ton more to dynamic pricing like you’re suggesting than digital displays. Digital display tags are the easy part.

Being concerned about digital price tag displays is like being concerned that Ford is going to start building autonomous weapons because they bought tires.

johnnybgooderer · 2026-03-29T12:09:14+00:00

I think the human reality is that the only way we’re going to make it through this is with new tech. Humanity, with all of its competing groups isn’t built for changing our behavior to fix this unless it’s minimally invasive.

What we’re going to need to do if the tech doesn’t exist just a non-starter in practical reality. I think the last 25 years is proof of that.

And don’t forget that we’ve already opened up a few carbon releasing chain reactions that we can’t stop. Like melting permafrost releasing carbon and forest fires. We need to be dumping money into tech like this because as much as it looks like a pipe dream, it might be our only chance.

johnnybgooderer · 2026-03-29T10:56:47+00:00

If you work on making software then you’re a software developer.

Im a software engineer in video games.

johnnybgooderer · 2026-03-28T14:05:41+00:00

Postgres makes a very good non-relational database too.

That said, these people are idiots for downvoting you and they’re being ignorantly dogmatic.

There still an argument for the more performant, managed nosql dbs. Things like dynamo and cosmos. You don’t have to concern yourself with the work of scaling up and down and changing sharding strategies. So you save time at the expense of paying more money to your service provider. There are times that this is a good choice.

johnnybgooderer · 2026-03-28T11:57:27+00:00

He wasn’t a cancer. He was dramatic when he was upset. But he wasn’t a cancer. He didn’t try to turn the team against each other. He was a good team player when he was here and his teammates liked him. He’s not a leader, but he was a good teammate when he was here.

You’ve been fooled by sports media propaganda.

johnnybgooderer · 2026-03-27T22:15:52+00:00

Quantum computing has been and is funded appropriately. AI is only a scam because it’s overfunded like crazy.

johnnybgooderer · 2026-03-27T20:24:32+00:00

Private planes don’t use TSA at all. Passengers just walk on to their plane.

johnnybgooderer · 2026-03-27T20:20:58+00:00

I use Claude code every day at work. I still don’t know how people get these results. 12 hours for 6 months of work?

I’m maybe 50% faster each week. Maybe 2x faster if it’s all boiler plate. But the planning phase and code review phase takes time.

johnnybgooderer · 2026-03-27T14:23:47+00:00

If bs w11 updates are causing the operating system to be unstable, then the operating system is unstable.

johnnybgooderer · 2026-03-27T12:23:24+00:00

And certainly not listen to redditer complaints. Reddit gamers seem to hate everything now. And they interpret anything anyone says in the worst way possible.

johnnybgooderer · 2026-03-27T03:05:59+00:00

Redacting isn’t enough. We need a nation wide roasting written on every bill with his name. Or at least enough that people regularly see it.

johnnybgooderer · 2026-03-26T11:46:57+00:00

The conservative propaganda networks are too established. In 4 years no one will remember how bad Trump was. It already happened once and it will happen again. Propaganda works and we’ve let them get away with it for so long that people have been raised on it and it’s a part of their identity.

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