I'm hopeful. However so long Meta, Apple and Google use them for interviewing, new grads going to have to keep grinding for best odds of landing internships and offers
It really bums me out that these mega corps can't spend a little to ensure nearby residents are not left worse off. Maybe you can't fix the water wells, but perhaps you can just pay for a filtration system for nearby residents. All in all a fraction of a penny compared to costs of raising these data centres in just a few months
Majority of my phone usage outside of reading HN is through dedicated apps. News, social media, chats and even substack. If I was building a product today, web would be quite low on the priority list outside of SEO capture.
If you want to climb the career ladder this is a good mindset to have. As someone who got into engineering cause I like to build neat products for people, it's a hard mindset to adopt. It switches your goals from what is the best for the people using it to what's going to make the most $
From past experience, CloudFormation is full of footguns that if you don't take time to understand them, you'll loose a foot and often in production. Most notably, when a rollback kicks in there is no way to stop it. And it largely locks you out until it's finished.