m_r_butts

Down four flights of stairs? That’s even worse than just holding the bag.

Yes. And nothing is as short-sighted as greed.

Every company I’ve been at follows this cycle: offshore to Cognizant for pennies, C-suite gets a bonus for saving money. In about two years, fire Cognizant because they suck and your code is a disaster, onshore, get a bonus for solving a huge problem. In about two years, offshore to Cognizant and get a bonus for saving money. Repeat forever.

This will follow the same rhythm but with different actors: the cheap labor is always there, and sometimes senior devs come in to replace the chatbots because the bots are failing in ways offshore can’t make up for: either fundamental design problems that shouldn’t have been used as a roadmap, or incompetently generated code that offshore assumes is correct because it compiles. This will all get built up and built around until it’s both a broken design AND deeply embedded in your stack. The new role of a senior dev will be contract work slicing these Gordian knots.

I can only imagine how disruptive that is. But if I absolutely had to have a shitload of Russian immigrants, I think I want the ones that disagree with their government so hard they’re willing to leave the country.

You can’t even convince normal people this is bad. You really think there’s enough critical mass among naysayers to really matter? I can (and do) only run Linux at home, but as soon as my bank switches over to requiring this bullshit, I’m going to have to play along on a different device.

Strewn across the ground were empty food containers and survival books

Please master the survival books before returning to monke.

Bothering other people is the point, making their religion an expected part of the landscape.

I’d like to see some absolute numbers before I panic about percentages. 12 people instead of 10 is a 20% increase.