The expectations have sped up rapidly. One engineer said that building a feature for the website used to take a few weeks; now it must frequently be done within a few days. He said this is possible only by using A.I. to help automate the coding and by cutting down on meetings with colleagues to solicit feedback and explore alternative ideas. Lots of ink spilled on the productivity of AI.

Every couple of days a new article pops up about how engineers are X% more productive, and how company Y laid off hundreds of developers because they are not needed anymore. … Also, if you are working on a completely fresh codebase, or on a PoC - the gains can be huge. I was able to build in the last 2 months something that would have taken me a year previously.

IF YOU WANT TO CHANGE THE WORLD, GO INTO BUSINESS Fun read on the history of computer programming and 40 years. Fun tidbit, businesses change the world, not software. Quote Citation: Charity, “THOUGHTS ON MOTIVATION AND MY 40-YEAR CAREER”, July 9, 2025, https://charity.wtf/2025/07/09/thoughts-on-motivation-and-my-40-year-career/

I have found that AI-generated code is often sloppy, unnecessarily complex, and a lot of the time, just plain wrong. For me, AI code generation is akin to mindlessly copy-pasting code snippets from Stack Overflow, and we all know how that goes. It usually takes me longer to understand AI generated code than write my own. You can’t off load understanding. Using AI to generate entire projects isn’t the solution.

Engineers got used to those cushy jobs, and became the most spoiled profession out there. We work from a nice office (or your home), solve interesting problems, and get paid in the top 10% of our country to do it. I once told a friend that SWE is unlike any other field. You don’t have to chase certificates or slog 10 years in the pits. What other career can you say ‘No I don’t know the tech stack and I don’t know the industry and I don’t know the product’ and hear back ‘You’re Hired’?

This lengthy sentence creates ambiguity: what exactly does “free of charge” apply to? Apple claims it only applies to “communicate” and “promote,” meaning the right to insert redirect links in an app. But not to “conclude contracts,” meaning making purchases. Based on that, Apple argues it can still charge commissions on those external transactions. The European Commission interprets it differently: contract conclusion must also be free of charge. It relies on the comma before the phrase “and to conclude contracts,” turning the sentence into an “enumeration.

In its latest labor market report, the New York Federal Reserve found that recent CS grads are dealing with a whopping 6.1 precent unemployment rate. Those who majored in computer engineering — which is similar, if not more specialized — are faring even worse, with 7.5 percent of recent graduates remaining jobless. .I mean, best in class compensation, strong work life balance and prestige. Hundreds of thousands of students flocked to CS degrees as a no-brainer career.

Dohmke [GitHub CEO] described an effective workflow where AI tools generate code and submit pull requests. Developers can make immediate adjustments using their programming skills. Matches my experience as well. A silly example. I ask AI to add padding to a div and it adds a style inline tag. Not a pt-3 class. AI has been great for getting 80% started. The rest is still up to us. Quote Citation: TECHINASIA, “GitHub CEO: manual coding remains key despite AI boom”, 23 Jun 2025, https://www.

But there’s no fun anymore. The stores just feel really kind of dingy, unkempt, with stuff locked behind doors. Not much of a shopper, but Target really felt like a fun place to shop with great deals and clean stores. The answer seems so obvious to me, hire. more. people. Check outs and returns routinely take 20-30 min, the self checkout lanes are so slow and the lines long. My frequent impulse buys of Legos or Switch Games for the kids are locked up, not even able to browse.

The share of people 30 days delinquent on their credit card debt has trended upward since the first half of 2021, and that trend was widespread among all four geographies we examined. Lookinga the included graphs it seems since 2023 delinquency has gone from up almost 10% points (log scale). Somethings gotta give. Quote Citation: Juan M. Sánchez , Masataka Mori, “The Broad, Continuing Rise in Delinquent U.S. Credit Card Debt Revisited”, May 09, 2025, https://www.