The “ref cam” they have showing his shit eating grin every time he argues with the ref is really something.

Unfortunately voters (both liberal and NDP voters) have made it clear that they really hate it when the NDP and the liberals make deals so I don’t think we are likely to see any more deals between them for awhile.

- none of this entitles the state of Argentina to anything at all.

Nation states are a very dumb idea but if we’re going to fight over them doing it non-violently is better than violently.

Yeah there’s definitely more going on than just LLMs in the present economy.

So I guess I’m not so worried about my own salary so much as that we might be destroying the path into the middle class that tech careers represent. If we break the path in it becomes like so many other careers where you just have to know somebody.

Everyone still wants to hire experienced folks and the problem is that we don’t really have a lot of roles that can take someone from inexperienced to experienced in the industry right now.

Because of this, I think a lot of the big tech companies that used to hire an army of interns and new grads are not doing that anymore (or not at anywhere near the same scale), which has created a really tight job market for new grads.

The way I and most of my peers started out is spending a couple years just churning out a tremendous amount of code, and we now have a machine that can churn out low to mid quality code with only a bit more supervision.