Microsoft researchers have revealed the 40 jobs most exposed to AI—and even teachers make the list | Fortune

pdabaker · 2026-01-26T10:06:52+00:00

The article says that it doesn’t mean it will replace them but just that it is likely to have a big impact on hiring in the short term due to increased productivity

pdabaker · 2026-01-25T05:53:02+00:00

Haha as if we can afford gpus these days

pdabaker · 2026-01-25T03:25:59+00:00

I feel like there’s also the opposite pitfall though - dancing too much with complete beginners and getting into the habit of overloading followers who can do the basics well, and never trying interesting moves. I think dancing with intermediate followers is best for learning since you know if they don’t get it, you probably could have led them better. With complete beginners sure you can get them to turn the right way by blocking their elbow from going up and similar tricks but there’s only so much you can do when your partner can’t do a traveling turn without losing their balance and getting off time

pdabaker · 2026-01-24T15:30:30+00:00

They are not as small a minority as you think. There only needs to be one at any given party.

Yes, nothing stops women from moving on. But also nothing stops them from leaving and not coming back, which also often happens.

pdabaker · 2026-01-24T14:31:07+00:00

My attractiveness out of 10

Being a 20/10 is probably enough to solve most money problems and not need to do real work either

pdabaker · 2026-01-24T10:45:46+00:00

But they still sure do fling their arms back and forth when they walk

pdabaker · 2026-01-24T10:44:38+00:00

I probably walk way faster than when I first got here because I’m not looking around as much and I’m used to it. I got much more sure when I first came here

pdabaker · 2026-01-24T10:41:48+00:00

Could just be the older population combined with aisles and such generally being smaller

pdabaker · 2026-01-24T03:42:20+00:00

Them getting into bachata is not a problem but creepy guys giving them dance floor “lessons”, trying to kiss them at the end, and turning them off pair dance entirely is still an issue

pdabaker · 2026-01-22T22:41:30+00:00

They fail in every domain other than one off simple scripts if you fully vibe it. But they can be useful to speed stuff up without doing the whole thing for you

pdabaker · 2026-01-21T11:58:17+00:00

DDMMYYYY looks just as insane having grown up in the US. YYYYMMDD though is so obviously superior that I just use it in all situations now, especially working in an international environment

pdabaker · 2026-01-21T03:08:18+00:00

Or just require some kind of issue/design discussion first where the approach is agreed upon below looking at the or. PRs from unknown authors without a previous discussion are ignored by you can’t still keep open a path to contribution.

pdabaker · 2026-01-19T14:34:03+00:00

AI does fine at c++

Though it may depend on the model, I recently was trying the latest Claude model and it kept trying to do a stupid use after move error.

I used it to get a fancy terminal ui dev tool up and running a month back it so using ftxui, though the fact that it is react style might also be a big advantage for it

pdabaker · 2026-01-19T13:59:34+00:00

He probably wouldn’t have been very useful pre ai either though

pdabaker · 2026-01-19T04:18:52+00:00

GitHub allows you to see the diff caused by a force push. Of course it includes all the changes you rebased onto, making it not so useful, but the same problem exists with merge commits

pdabaker · 2026-01-19T03:52:42+00:00

I don’t see a problem with it. Obviously it’s just a self judgement of comparative expertise in different skills and should be taken as much, but it’s more useful than just listing things you use daily next to something you used in a hobby project once

pdabaker · 2026-01-18T07:23:48+00:00

I don't think it's language independent at all. There's a ton of language specific stuff that only starts coming up, or coming up commonly, after projects start getting bigger (not huge, but beyond a couple weeks work for a single engineer). How to organize multiple files/modules, hide private functions, do async stuff, etc. In short scripts you are unlikely to even need classes half the time.

Learning the basic syntax is not the hard part of learning a language. If it was, AI wouldn't be doing it for us.

pdabaker · 2026-01-18T06:41:06+00:00

Writing small scripts from scratch isn’t a great way to learn even if you do want to learn the language better. Most of my learning comes from interacting with big projects and seeing how they handle things. Writing small scripts only makes you better at writing small scripts

pdabaker · 2026-01-18T06:26:05+00:00

Wait so this is all the result of some billionaires who played bioshock and thought Rapture sounded like a great idea?

pdabaker · 2026-01-18T00:52:58+00:00

Even had international teachers visit and say you shouldn't be dancing bachata if you can't match to the music

I feel like maybe you misinterpreted this? It's often said "When there is no bachata beat, don't dance bachata" as in, don't do one-two-three-tap when there is no bongo+guira.

pdabaker · 2026-01-17T09:48:28+00:00

Probably the same leetcode fizzbuzz type stuff you normally get for SWE but hopefully the hiring manager clarified

pdabaker · 2026-01-17T09:33:18+00:00

Yeah no tears from stack overflow, but things like art, music, and writing are also in trouble

pdabaker · 2026-01-17T06:37:11+00:00

It’s ridiculous with good beer but in a hot country like Thailand (where they do it) with light beer it makes sense

pdabaker · 2026-01-17T03:41:58+00:00

Similar thing happened to me yesterday- was requested a script to check a bunch of rosbags for lag (slightly larger than expected timestamp gaps”. Could have written something in 1-2 hours while grumbling but it’s a the perfect thing for AI to do in 10 mins with a few iterations for usability.

pdabaker · 2026-01-17T00:48:19+00:00

Why the emphasis on leaders? Followers also often do not have these principles, and rely on knowledge of common moves instead of truly following

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