They said AI would take you places. They never said they were places you wanted to go.

It isn’t particularly hard to call this out. Just say “I haven’t done anything since Friday.” And leave it at that.

Be comfortable with silence.

PMs act that way because people above them ask for updates regularly. Bad PMs don’t know how to push back. If you need things done faster, the answer is usually “we need more resources”.

But it doesn’t even say “Sign in” in German. It says “Das Bootton” because someone thought it would be funny and never changed it.

Actually the front end stuff is more like “we need to make the ‘sign in’ button bigger. No one can click it because it’s tiny, and it’s in German.”

Bitcoin is just a scam in general.

“Bro, I’ll sell you this really complicated number. No one else has it.”

“What can I do with it?”

“Sell it for more money to a bigger fool than you.”

"I’m in.*

If you’re talking about

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_(Duchamp)

that’s a seminal work of avant guard art. You are still talking about it 100 years later. It’s obviously great art.

Art is a work of visual, auditory, or written media that makes you feel emotion. That’s it. Does this pile of rocks make you feel happy or sad or anything? Then it’s art.

AI makes pictures like a camera does. It doesn’t make it art unless you make something that evokes emotion.

creativity has been one of the first walls to fall

Uh, no? Unless you think unhinged nonsense without thought is “creative”. Right now, these programs are like asking a particularly talented insane person to draw something for you.

Creativity is not just creation. It’s creation with purpose. You can “create art” by breaking a vase. That doesn’t mean it’s good art.

at the point AI becomes self-improving

This is not a foregone conclusion. Machines have mostly always been stronger and faster than humans, because humans are generally pretty weak and slow. Our strength is adaptability.

As anyone with a computer knows, if one tiny thing goes wrong it messes up everything. They are not adaptable to change. Most jobs require people to be adaptable to tiny changes in their routine every day. That’s why you still can’t replace accountants with spreadsheets, even though they’ve existed in some form for 50 years.

It’s just a tool. If you don’t want to use it, that’s kinda weird. You aren’t just “debugging” things. You use it as a junior developer who can do basic things.

My friend, you need to get some exercise and some sleep. Those problems are all worse for most other jobs. That’s what I’m comparing it to.

If you’ve ever worked in a different industry you know that tech jobs are easier and pay better. That’s just a fact.

Software developers are so confusing. You have a physically easy job that pays well and makes people think you’re smart. That’s almost as good as it gets. “Capitalism” is shoveling investor money down your throats.

Software developers didn’t really exist in the USSR, but the computer scientists that did wanted to escape. Most software developers in the Third World now would love to get a huge First World salary. Recognize what you have.

Also if you get a slightly bigger form factor, you can just buy a much better one.

Don’t wish for knowledge, wish for wisdom. Of course then you will just realize that you should have just wished to be lucky.

You don’t seem to understand what is required of whom. Corporations are required to act in the best interests of their shareholders (within the bounds of the law) or the shareholders can sue the company.

People are not legally required to do anything but they will be fired if they don’t. If someone says something that makes a company look bad to their customers, they kinda need to be fired. Otherwise keeping them on may be detrimental to the interests of the investors.

Basically, you can say what you want but anything but positive attention may get you fired.

The least secure part of the sign-in process is the person. It doesn’t matter what the 2FA method is.

You can be using a one time pin and someone can look at your paper and see the next one. Someone can trick your grandma into giving out the Google authenticator pin over the phone because “they’re from Google”. Someone can trick you into making the financial transfer yourself because “you’re getting a deal”.

Why do programmers complain about expectations all the time? Just say “It needs more time” or “that’s not possible unless we change a lot of things”. Set the expectations, don’t accept them. You’re the expert. What are they gonna do? Do it themselves?

Ignorance? Ego? Delusions of grandeur?

So you have met top programmers? Then why are you asking?

Oh lol. Well it happened recently too:

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2038611/angry-customers-sue-ssd-manufacturers-after-data-breaches.html

https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/western-digital-recalls-400000-hard-drives/

If they have physical access, they can access your stuff. It’s hard to get around that.