I remember being at a conference when a guy walked up to a group of us chatting. wearing a Google Glass. Everyone stopped talking, turned around, and just scattered. A while later he walked into the men’s room and someone reported him to security. That afternoon, the glass was gone.
Guess nobody learned that lesson.
Love George, but holy moley, that was dark even for him.
Does getting married count? Pretty different than what came before.
Ahem…(adjusting bowtie): “More Real.”
Shades of dotcom days. Everyone hopped on the bandwagon. Most lured by the high salaries and gold-rush mentality. Nowadays, just having a CS degree isn’t enough. You want portfolio pieces to set you apart. Start by having a damn portfolio. You can set one up for free on GH Pages or CloudFlare. Or pay a few bucks and set one up on Wordpress. If you can’t figure out how, that CS degree was wasted.
You want stories that show you bring value. Show that you can build things beyond school projects. Even if you do school projects, document them and push them out. Show why they’re cool and what you can do. Throw up screenshots, diagrams, or animations. No walls of text.
Also, learn to sell yourself. Not in the oily LinkedIn way. Just be out there. Contribute back. Educate others and have a voice. Blog, newsletter, social media, book, or video channel. They’re dead-easy to set up and free so there’s no gatekeepers to go through, other than your ideas.
If in a big city, go to Meetups or demo days. Meet people and ASK WHAT THEY DO. Help connect them to others. Anyone just sitting there cranking out resumes is going to get filtered by the LLM screener. Might as well pin up your resume above the urinal at the pub.
Finally: everyone can low-code or vibecode. Those are table stakes now. You want to do better.
Perfectly fine to interrupt an hour-long train of thought to ask me if we’re out of milk.
Just peachy.
They’re worried he does well and more people like him show up on their home turf.
Also, Streisand Effect.
Consulting opportunity: clean up your vibe-coding projects and get them to production.
Leftover warm Heineken at the bottom of a bottle. After a dinner party thrown by my parents. Snuck a little swig while the grownups were outside saying goodbye. I must have been 9 or 10-yo. Tasted like snakebite. Just awful.
Didn’t go near beer till midway through college.
Until the can of food is opened, and then you are only a distant memory.
Overused HDR and AI have led some of us to question the veracity of any of this.
Sounds like Haskell needs an official Saint.
Golden Temple feeding 100K people a day: https://youtu.be/i9Iw3mTJueQ
The painter’s hands were seriously scarred setting up the model.
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I am the happiest person ever. Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about Happiness, which is Smiles minus Frowns.
Words to live by.
Wonder if the 5% that actually made money included companies that sell enterprise AI services, like AWS, Microsoft, and Google?