You can organize things. It's surprisingly easy. You just put up a FB event.
When I was younger and moved to a new (foreign) city, The first thing I did was to create a "picnic" for people coming from my country. No agenda, no nothing, let's just hang out and have some wine, cheese and chat while sitting on the grass. You'd be surprised how successful this was, and some of them keep running regularly without me for over a decade now.
For all that it's worth, from the outside it looks to have undergone a real, notable improvement. The feeling is exacerbated by the dumpster fire at bluesky insisting that it was the worst thing ever and because after the fact, about every default subreddit (which already were in a bad state) are now terminal with politics brainrot.
Elon Musk is a walking talking advertisement for the dangers of social media rotting your brain. But now I'd like to talk to you about white genocide in South Africa ...
The "AI stealing jobs" is just a new-age Luddism. Yes, of course it will be painful for many, but at larger scale, even those who lose the jobs should benefit overall.
"your ability to create a mental representation of the problem to communicate to the LLM" – this is the tipping point imho. So far, you need to be good at this. That's why senior jobs are not affected yet. The question is for how long. We are probably just months away from the time when LLMs (or other form of AI) will be better at creating better "mental representation", better abstractions and better solutions, than most humans in most cases, including those in senior positions. And that will spill over to other non-dev jobs too.
Didn't he basically observe the second law of thermodynamics?
The Second Law says an imbalance (like heat in one corner of a room) will "solve itself" by spreading out until the room is balanced. The Napoleon Technique assumes that a "social imbalance" (a crisis, a frantic email, or a minor conflict) will often "cool down" or reach a state of balance on its own if you simply wait.
In my part of the world, we call this technique "let it rot out" :-)
I think a big part is which model seems to work better with your language/stack. My language is Elixir, which is somewhat niche, and only Claude has been able to produce usable Elixir code so far. None of the other things mentioned in the article mattered, because of this. I wonder if others have this experience that some models just struggle with some languages/stacks?
Hey Jose, author here! That's a great call out. I write predominantly in Swift and for a long time Claude was the only usable option. But sometime around GPT-5 OpenAI's models got much better at Swift, so the choice started becoming more about aesthetics (as a descriptor of preferences). So you're right — if the model can't write coherent code then it doesn't matter what kind of flow you feel as you're working with the tools — but I do imagine this will continue to improve for all languages including Elixir.
If it's okay to mention my own project, I'd appreciate it if you could check out https://charleswiltgen.github.io/Axiom/ (open source) and let me know what you think. It's focused on modern Swift, with specialized skills for helping developers get to strict Swift 6 concurrency.
I've only skimmed it since I'm between Christmas and a longer vacation that starts in 24 hours, but this actually looks really neat! I'll definitely take a closer look to at these skills in depth — but this is exactly the kind of thing I've been telling people to take the time to invest in for their agentic environments. :)
If you can't be bothered with a simple cover letter (a paragraph or two is fine) highlighting why you are a good fit and just send a CV..... Frankly, it comes across as low effort spamming.
As someone currently looking for a new job, I stopped bothering with cover letters because they didn't make the faintest of differences. After many dozens of rejections I am just burnt out about writing them.
This fucking shit, which really boils down to a humiliation ritual focusing on why you """deserve to be here""", needs to fucking end. You are no more deserving than the applicant.
If you consider briefly highlighting the relevant parts of your experience to a potential employer as "fucking shit", then perhaps you are unsuitable for the role being offered.
I am sure, you hold the employer to the same standards. For example disclosing salary range information beforehand, or writing rejection letters afterwards, so applicants going through the trouble of doing their part aren't wasting their time and energy.
> I am sure, you hold the employer to the same standards
I most certainly do!
Incidentally, the very idea of not providing a salary range is truly baffling. I'm amazed any such advertisements generate applicants; other than those phoning up the HR department to tell them to stop pissing about and please state the salary.
I believe it actually is illegal, via a set of more general rules on data collection, on what constitutes a fraud, etc. May not be spelled out exactly like this specific use case, but still very likely covered by law. Just difficult to prove.
I saw this post on reddit where some sketchy AI company (Alpheva AI) is posting jobs and requesting a screenshot of all applicants having left their app a 5-star review in the app store as part of the application process:
This is another thing were it clearly is illegal, but good luck actually trying to sue or get them to stop it. Worst case scenario they'll set up another cheap company on paper, and keep doing the same scam
It certainly would be illegal in Europe under the GDPR - data collected for one purpose (handling of applications) cannot be used for another without explicit, informed consent.
It may be illegal, but shady stuff certainly happens in EU too.
Recently investigative journalists here in Finland found out that a significant percentage of job postings over here are indeed fake. Unsurprisingly, worst offenders were recruitment companies, which sometimes listed fake jobs to generate a pool of applicants they can later offer to their clients. Doing this is easy, as no law requires these companies to disclose who their clients are when creating job postings. It's also very common for same position to get posted multiple times.
Other than wasting applicant's time, this behavior also messes up many statistics, which use job postings to determine how many open positions there are available. Basically the chances of finding a job are even worse for unemployed people than stats would imply.
Oh, I agree that illegal stuff happens in the EU aplenty. The question was whether this is illegal and it almost certainly is. Job postings from recruiters - while morally reprehensible - may just skirt the law, but straight up using applications for profile building, marketing and other purposes almost certainly isn’t permitted
The box would need to be off by default and clearly state the purpose. It would at least be possible to verify it exists and no example has been shown.
When I was younger and moved to a new (foreign) city, The first thing I did was to create a "picnic" for people coming from my country. No agenda, no nothing, let's just hang out and have some wine, cheese and chat while sitting on the grass. You'd be surprised how successful this was, and some of them keep running regularly without me for over a decade now.
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