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twelve40 commented on We mourn our craft nolanlawson.com/2026/02/0... · Posted by u/ColinWright

twelve40 · 5 days ago

I found my love for programming in high school, dreaming of helping the world with my beautiful craftsmanship, but now i really really need the fokken money. Both are true!

So if my corporate overlords will have me talk to the soul-less Claude robot all day long in a Severance-style setting, and fix its stupid bugs, but I get to keep my good salary, then I'll shed a small tear for my craft and get back to it. If not... well, then I'll be shedding a lot more tears ... i guess

twelve40 commented on We mourn our craft nolanlawson.com/2026/02/0... · Posted by u/ColinWright

Ronsenshi · 6 days ago

Yeah, seems like too many went into this field for money or status not because they like the process. Which is not an issue by itself, but now these people talk about how their AI assistant of choice made them some custom tool in two hours that would have taken them three weeks. And it's getting exhausting.

twelve40 · 6 days ago

> many went into this field for money

I went into this field for both! what do i do now, i'm screwed

twelve40 commented on Capital One to acquire Brex for $5.15B reuters.com/legal/transac... · Posted by u/personjerry

throwawa1 · 21 days ago

Silicon Valley seems gamed against employees - it gets worse every year. Companies don't even share the cap table (including many YC companies).

twelve40 · 18 days ago

mostly if the founders are dickheads. That happens often, but may not be the case here.

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twelve40 commented on Don't fall into the anti-AI hype antirez.com/news/158... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

dist-epoch · a month ago

People said the exact same thing about (numbers from memory, might be off):

- when Google paid $1 bil for YouTube

- when Facebook paid $1 bil for Instagram

- when Facebook paid $1 bil for WhatsApp

The same thing - these 3 companies make no money, and have no path to making money, and that the price paid was crazy and decoupled from any economics.

Yet now, in hindsight, they look like brilliant business decisions.

twelve40 · a month ago

yeah, and Zuckerberg said that everyone on planet Earth will buy his VR helmet, and renamed his whole company after a stupid game which i don't think even exists anymore. Being a contrarian doesn't mean you are right, and sometimes seemingly stupid money-losing things turn out... stupid.

twelve40 commented on Westjet is going to make you pay to recline your seat thestreet.com/travel/a-ma... · Posted by u/raw_anon_1111

lazycouchpotato · 4 months ago

Joining the likes of Spirit Airlines, it seems. It's working out great for them, going through their second bankruptcy in less than 12 months.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/29/spirit-airlines-chapter-11-b...

twelve40 · 4 months ago

don't get the hate, cheap tix to Vegas were great, now it's less competition, if their plane config was not to your liking you can pay whatever you want for any other airline, don't get the schadenfreude.

twelve40 commented on Why is Venus hell and Earth an Eden? quantamagazine.org/why-is... · Posted by u/pseudolus

eloisant · 5 months ago

I'm sure we can figure out stuff, but I guess my point is, why would we do that at all?

How fucked up Earth needs to be than living on a floating oil platform above Venus is better? The point is already hard to make for the Moon or Mars.

twelve40 · 5 months ago

pretty fucked up if it runs into an asteroid or a comet!

twelve40 commented on No clicks, no content: The unsustainable future of AI search bradt.ca/blog/no-clicks-n... · Posted by u/bradt

_Algernon_ · 5 months ago

If AI kills the ad-funded business model of the internet, it will be one of the few good outcomes from AI.

Good riddance.

twelve40 · 5 months ago

Is this is a joke? Of course it's not going to kill ad-funded anything, ads will still be there 100% in some form, except now all the ad money will go to 1-2 companies instead of the whole world of web publishers. Very smart cheering that on!

twelve40 commented on How I code with AI on a budget/free wuu73.org/blog/aiguide1.h... · Posted by u/indigodaddy

freeopinion · 6 months ago

There is a company that is advertising like crazy for programmers, data scientists, etc. They are looking for college kids, etc. They are paying better than McDonalds.

What are they building? A training corpus.

Are people who responds to their ads getting the money for free?

Handing your codebase to an AI company is not nothing.

twelve40 · 6 months ago

> Handing your codebase to an AI company is not nothing.

it's a battle that's already lost a long time ago. Every crappy little service by now indexes everything. If you ever touch Github, Jira, Datadog, Glean (god forbid), Upwork, etc etc they each have their own shitty little "AI" thing which means what? Your project has been indexed, bagged and tagged. So unless you code from a cave without using any saas tools, you will be indexed no matter what.

twelve40 commented on It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA jonoalderson.com/conjectu... · Posted by u/tambourine_man

jazzypants · 7 months ago

Yeah, I see a lot of poorly written back-end APIs too.

twelve40 · 6 months ago

backend has many traps but no one totally dominating "load the slow bundle once, near-native subsequent page loads" narrative which is (for whatever the reason!!) a non-existent illusion on most average daily websites.

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