Seriously, if it’s only saving 100 hours, they’re doing it wrong.

Edit: oh, they call infrastructure “infra” so that’s probably why.

Jack Dorsey, said in a post on social media that the decision was not driven by financial difficulty, but by the growing capability of AI tools to perform a wider range of tasks.

We have the money to pay them, we just don’t want to.

Oh boy. Someone disagrees with you and it must be a chat bot. Okay boomer.

all the new frameworks

Don’t be a jerk. To get a NEW job, they all want some different thing. React, Vue, Angular, Svelte, HTMX, etc. Backend is even worse. PHP, Ruby, Python, Go, .NET, Java.

Don’t even get me started on all the CI/CD nonsense.

I can see you’re not a web developer, and so you just simply don’t understand what a mess web work is.

is really worth it.

I don’t choose what I get paid to do. Jobs are scarce.

misguided

Every job I have ever had involved a one-up who I thought was misguided.

they need to be replaced

No shit. If there was one way to get me to lose all respect for you it’s that. Suggest the obvious that won’t happen. Ffs.

learn new things.

You’re not learning things that you need to get a job that you don’t want to learn. Clearly you have no concept of this. Gosh, that sounds nice—dick.

I’m glad you’ve got a fantastic work life. I don’t. 90% of developers don’t.

And because of that, a huge chunk of us are checking out because no matter how hard we try, layoffs are usually every year. And talent doesn’t keep your job.

Stop using dependencies.

I think cognitive load is a big part of it. For me, a web developer, my job has always sucked. A new framework every 5 minutes. Some new acronyms to learn every day. A whole new pipeline that exists only to stroke JavaScript. Transpiled languages just because they refuse to improve upon the ones we require (typescript).

After 23 years in the industry, and relatively nothing to show for it, I’m pretty dead inside. Why should I not just farm it all out to AI and take all the pressure off?

0 parental enforcement

I was called unprofessional for calling someone out for consistently answering my questions with questions. I just started doing what they did, answering all their questions with questions, and used their words. Then I got fired. I was very happy.

“I just think it feels comforting. I like that it signifies to the world that I’m listening to something.”

I’m not happy about jackxit either, but this is just like people buying vinyl. This person would probably get the same feeling in a test with BT headphones and a faux cable.

Maybe we should just have social networks with one level of comments. How nice would it be to never have someone reply 😇