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rudnevr commented on Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions twitter.com/JosephPolitan... · Posted by u/enraged_camel

layer8 · 8 days ago

> I'm very much a "builder" type dev that has more fun going from 0-v1 than maintaining and expanding scalable, large systems.

Maintaining and expanding is more challenging, which is why I’ve grown to prefer that. Greenfield and then leaving is too easy, you don’t learn the actually valuable lessons. As experience shows that projects won’t stay in the nice greenfield world, building them can feel like doing illusory work — you know the real challenges are yet to come.

rudnevr · 8 days ago

Taking this to the extreme, I think most lessons represent sunset or dead projects. There's no sweet illusions anymore. No assumptions. No ego. No account for infinite flexibility. No shine. No excitement of a new thing. No holy wars. No astronaut architects. Only you, the ruins and the truth.

rudnevr commented on Nobody gets promoted for simplicity terriblesoftware.org/2026... · Posted by u/aamederen

maccard · 10 days ago

I’ve interviewed a few hundred people. Probably approaching a thousand, if not already. An interview is a scenario, and if you aren’t willing to engage in the scenario that we all agreed to partake in, that’s a huge warning sign that you’re going to be difficult later down the line. The point of the question is to have something remotely understandable for both sides to talk about, that’s it.

rudnevr · 9 days ago

did it ever occur to you that you might be living in a self-reinforcing feedback loop? how long ago have been in interviewee's shoes?

rudnevr commented on I found a useful Git one liner buried in leaked CIA developer docs spencer.wtf/2026/02/20/cl... · Posted by u/spencerldixon

efficax · 22 days ago

because of my precious stash? but also the repo is huge, the clone takes 10 minutes? And all the other branches...

rudnevr · 22 days ago

doesn't your precious stash deserve an external folder or remote branch, in any case? the local repo is always a risk, so many things can ruin it. also, you only need to clean up like once a year, it's by definition a rare operation. A ton of branches doesn't grow overnight.

rudnevr commented on I found a useful Git one liner buried in leaked CIA developer docs spencer.wtf/2026/02/20/cl... · Posted by u/spencerldixon

rudnevr · 22 days ago

What's wrong with just deleting the whole folder and clone repo and whatever branch you're interested in? In any case it's not an urgent thing. You don't have to do this mid-work, you can wait until you push most stuff and then rm && git clone.

The only case in which this wouldn't work is when you have a ton of necessary local branches you can't even push to remote, which is a risk and anti-pattern per se.

rudnevr commented on AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas' finalroundai.com/blog/aws... · Posted by u/birdculture

golly_ned · 3 months ago

I haven't seen things work like this in practice, where heavy AI users end up being able to generating a solution, then later grasp it and learn from it, with any kind of effectiveness or deep understanding.

It's like reading the solution to a math proof instead of proving it yourself. Or writing a summary of a book compared to reading one. The effort towards seeing the design space and choosing a particular solution doesn't exist; you only see the result, not the other ways it could've been. You don't get a feedback loop to learn from either, since that'll be AI generated too.

It's true there's nothing stopping someone from going back and trying to solve it themselves to get the same kind of learning, but learning the bugfix (or whatever change) by studying it once in place just isn't the same.

And things don't work like that in practice any more than things like "we'll add tests later" end up being followed through with with any regularity. If you fix a bug, the next thing for you to do is to fix another bug, or build another feature, write another doc, etc., not dwell on work that was already 'done'.

rudnevr · 3 months ago

that's true, and nice comparison with tests.

rudnevr commented on AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas' finalroundai.com/blog/aws... · Posted by u/birdculture

rudnevr · 3 months ago

I don't know, I've always thought that junior problem was mostly non-technical, kids issues: overconfidence, love for shortcuts, sense of entitlement, arrogance, lack of communication and respect of colleagues, including fellow juniors and seniors, aversion to holy wars, lack of compromise and team discipline, disrespect to existing solutions, laziness in following-up post-delivery, negligent edge case checking, being opinionated about tooling, languages and whatnot. Very little of this can be fixed with AI, and many things can be easily amplified. I mean, one junior with AI vs one senior with AI might yield comparable results, but seven juniors with AI vs seven seniors with AI should fail pretty fast.

rudnevr commented on Why are so many pedestrians killed by cars in the US? construction-physics.com/... · Posted by u/thelastgallon

paulcole · 5 months ago

The answer is so simple.

We really really really really like our cars/trucks/SUVs in the US and have agreed that about 30,000 to 40,000 people a year will die so that we can keep driving the way we do.

It’s the price we pay for the way we choose to live.

rudnevr · 5 months ago

my impression was not that most people like their SUVs, they're just don't trust other people and don't follow the conventions. While on the micro level Americans follow the conventions much more seriously than Europeans (starting from tips and down to formal office rules) and love spending time discussing those conventions, on the higher level, with risk or high stakes involved, all the conventions go out of window, and the people fall back to guns, litigators, SUVs, suburban houses in the middle of nowhere, and other ways of self-isolation and atomization.

Soccer vs american football is another visible example.

rudnevr commented on Why are so many pedestrians killed by cars in the US? construction-physics.com/... · Posted by u/thelastgallon

rkomorn · 5 months ago

I'm back in Europe after more than two decades in the US and I can't say I feel much safer as a pedestrian here.

rudnevr · 5 months ago

i'm back too and i definitely do

rudnevr commented on Why are so many pedestrians killed by cars in the US? construction-physics.com/... · Posted by u/thelastgallon

rudnevr · 5 months ago

having moved to us after 30 yrs of European experiences I would walk a lot in small and big East Cost cities. In the first year I was barely hit at least 3 times - once on the right turn with no lights (the driver only checked the left), once on the right turn red light (lack of my information so it's allowed in US), and once just when somebody went out of underground parking while talking to their phone. After that I learned never cross a road without making the eye contact with the upcoming driver.

Nevertheless, there had been a few episodes in the following years.

rudnevr commented on Ask HN: US expats/nomads, how do you find remote-out-of-US jobs in US? · Posted by u/rudnevr

rozenmd · 8 months ago

You don't, you find a US company with a local entity that hires you on a local contract in that country. That way you're compliant with taxes, and the company is compliant with employment law in your country.

The alternative to that is starting a sole-trader company in the country you're in, and contracting directly with the US company through it (or a remote-employees-as-a-service company that basically does this on the company's behalf for a fat fee).

rudnevr · 8 months ago

sorry, my question is not that much of a legal side, there's plenty of info around - it's rather about identifying jobs which are open to this. Most HRs and hiring managers just ignore the applications which openly state - "I'm not on US soil".