delphico (u/delphico)

delphico commented on IT employment grew by just 700 jobs in 2023 wsj.com/articles/it-emplo... · Posted by u/maheshs

wizerdrobe · 2 years ago

The trend I’ve seen, and one that actually seems to have decent results, is “near-shoring” to Romania, Ukraine, Brazil or similar.

India has had an “if you’ve got no better options” for most of my career to be honest.

delphico · 2 years ago

Point taken, but there are no black and white options as you'd have seen. I have worked with folks from East European Geo's who are very good and you will find that everywhere.

The volumes (fresh and junior hiring) in India are staggering numbers

delphico commented on IT employment grew by just 700 jobs in 2023 wsj.com/articles/it-emplo... · Posted by u/maheshs

stevenjgarner · 2 years ago

How much of this do you think involves senior programmers using LLM and AI-generated code to do a lot of the grunt work, thereby not needing to either employ, outsource or train? I am amazed how much more productive I have become with the leading LLMs, especially with specialized full-stack tasks that I do not do every day. Many things that I regularly outsourced once a year I now just get an LLM to assist. Could it be that this is more of a factor already than the economic factors indicate?

delphico · 2 years ago

True to a large degree. The key is "grunt" work. The definition of that varies though. New services are "grunt" for some, Knowledge base based production support is "grunt". The challenge is this , but from what we can see, it is a huge factor

delphico commented on IT employment grew by just 700 jobs in 2023 wsj.com/articles/it-emplo... · Posted by u/maheshs

osigurdson · 2 years ago

I thought offshoring happened 20 years ago. I think today, it is more about aishoring, or the dream that it will be possible to do a lot with very few people.

delphico · 2 years ago

Oh absolutely. The term is new (aishoring). There is chaos though (initial days of aishoring ?) The challenge I see is the following (or the management thought I see is the following)

a) Hire some Junior devs, track them through spyware on the laptops b) Enterprise ChatGPT, Bard, <Insert my own> c) CoPilot d) Spin features out

Some senior folk reviews the code (we pay him top dollar, so 18 hours is reality he/she has to wake up to) As someone to whom this happened (I did not sign up, it was normal till management changed), I can tell you it made me go crazy. 85 hour work weeks (weekends included) took a toll and I quit and took a lower paying position (1 year ago).

Sadly its not getting better, Was conversing with a colleague recently and he told me his new task was to use GenAI to migrate IMS to Java microservices. Kind of chuckled to myself (console by saying: it gets worse, before it gets better)

delphico commented on IT employment grew by just 700 jobs in 2023 wsj.com/articles/it-emplo... · Posted by u/maheshs

delphico · 2 years ago

While a vast majority of comments here seem to indicate a lot of jobs being moved offshore, there are massive layoffs (even entities shutting shop in India. Github closed its office here, Twitter reduced its presence dramatically etc. Where I work, there are no back-fills for voluntary attrition or restructuring). Layoffs are a taboo of some kind here too, affected are treated as "non-performers" and recruiters will look down upon you.

A lot of hiring here is for low end work or at very junior levels (If you are a 10+ years experienced guy, good luck getting a job. I know a close friend of mine struggling to get one - ready for even a 40pc pay cut)

If you apply for a Principal or Staff position (few), be ready to grind out 1 easy, 1 medium and 1 hard Leetcode problem and doing a System design interview where you do FB with Instagram design reels all at once in 1 hour). Surprisingly when you attend meetups and talk with "Senior" managers who used to hire dozens with shambolic interviews, seem to be opting for getting "good" "resources" with DSA skills from this market (Imagine working in core engineering and then going on to do body shop consulting at an IT provider migrating from Java 4 to Java 17)

While the general sense on lot of jobs are going offshore is true, it is possibly very low paying entry level jobs.

You can now possibly correlate these to a lot of comments you see, junior folks who (no offense intended) :

* Given a spec hack something up and never think of how a customer will use this * Exceptions (sorry, we code Hail Mary scenarios) * Monitoring (sorry, that is ProdOps issue not mine) * Alert Management (this is non critical anyway & maintenance is someone else's job) * Testing (shambles)

Add to this targets such as "automate" with "Gen AI", We paid your co-pilot license where is the productivity increase number (you are an under performer and did not "customer delight" experience)

Sure is frustrating (onshore or offshore) & sad to see this where this is. One just thinks we'd have to live with this at-least for now. Hoping that things get better (overall in the world), sanity prevails and we can all have better lives ahead of us

delphico commented on Show HN: SwaraNotebook – a notation editor for Indian classical music swaranotebook.com/... · Posted by u/shark8me

SuperNinKenDo · 2 years ago

Sounds awesome. Do you have any tips on getting started with this kind of musical tradition?

delphico · 2 years ago

There are multiple classical musical schools, the most prominent are the Hindustani (Indo-Persian) and Carnatic music. There is commonality in both with respect to notes and how combinations are formed to raag/raagas

Here is an example of Carnatic music for beginners (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YNv1qwxJ0o)

delphico commented on Japan launches rocket carrying lunar lander and X-ray telescope phys.org/news/2023-09-jap... · Posted by u/wglb

riffraff · 2 years ago

The trajectory of this missions is really cool [0], basically it will use both the earth _and_ the moon to slingshot itself and then approach the moon in a sort of tangential path.

As I understand it this means the mission will take quite a bit more time than "usual" but save a lot of power.

[0] I'm on mobile, but this looks like a decent representation https://twitter.com/TitaniumSV5/status/1695724234339954779?t...

delphico · 2 years ago

ISRO missions to Moon and Mars leveraged Sling-shotting (saves on Fuel and weight of the same to be carried). The Russian probe took a more direct approach landing to the moon.

delphico commented on The Dance of Śiva asymptotejournal.com/blog... · Posted by u/Caiero

dilawar · 2 years ago

I was wondering what causing this heat globally, lately!

delphico · 2 years ago

Global warming (attr. to Climate change)