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Michael Snoyman
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Programmer, economist, author, speaker, weight lifter, Bitcoin enthusiast. Born in ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ, living in ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ ืขื–ืจื™ ืžืขื ื”' ืขื•ืฉื” ืฉืžื™ื ื•ืืจืฅ
I'm 40 years old, and I've been an engineering manager for 15 years. I don't know if my expectations have grown and this is just a typical "this generation has no work ethic," or if something is fundamentally different. But I'm seeing a widespread inability to take responsibility for working problems to their completion. I've talked with my mentor about it, he seems to think that it's widespread across industry, affecting anyone who experienced COVID lockdowns in their formative dev years. It essentially destroyed their normally onboarding experiences and taught them that all the rules of the game can change on a whim. Now with the AI "revolution" happening, developers have the greatest tooling ever available to solve all their problems, but they've been terrified that they're about to lose their jobs to said AI, so they _also_ have no motivation. I have no solutions and I'm essentially screaming into the wind here. But if anyone else has experienced things like this, misery loves company :)
Authoritarians are too busy dreaming up what might go wrong in a free market that they canโ€™t notice all the things that are going wrong in their corrupted markets.
GM Nostr! Inspired by the political alignment chart, I'd like to propose: the emotional alignment chart.
WTF why doesn't this code compile? The error message doesn't even make any sense, that's not the current version of the file! ... five minutes later Oh, I forgot to save the file ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ
Money printing is the forceful seizure of others' wealth without providing equivalent value in exchange.
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