An unemployed programmer here who quit their job 6 months ago. Also have a baby on the way.
To answer your question - people who are totally burnt out. Some of us have been in the trenches for a long time and when you start to spiral, the world gets pretty dark. I’m not rich, I was just broken.
In terms of the listening part, my wife is like this. We found out a few years ago that she has ADD. She doesn’t do it intentionally but I do get frustrated sometimes. It’s just her brain going a million miles an hour.
I still try and do some coding by hand. Agents have improved massively and they’re now really capable but I can’t see how anyone is going to fully automate the software development process. If there’s even the slightest chance that an agent can go off track and cause an outage, you’ll need a person to sort it out. If nobody can understand the black boxes that these things make when unattended, who’s fixing that shit? I’m yet to work for a company that is okay with a production build being down for any period of time.
There are companies running the narrative that their developers don’t write code anymore but unless they plan on fully automating the process and taking humans completely out of the loop, I don’t see how that is sustainable. There will be a point when developers realise they have no future at your company so they’ll leave, taking their knowledge with them. The bridge between your software and your business is now an LLM. That’s a huge amount of trust to put in something built on probability and has a limited context window.
AI isn’t disappearing but at some point there is going to be some high profile events that even the CEOs can’t ignore. Their job is money and if something in their business is losing them money, they will change it. That could be outages, customer dissatisfaction or their development ‘team’ is now costing them a fortune. It just sucks that we have ride this shit out.
Got a link to it?
We’ve just been reading lists of names but this is a nice way to approach it. Thanks!
We have thought about doing something like this
I can’t decide whether this sounds like a hair trimmer or something you rub on your face before you go to bed.
This is low key old school cool
Vera is really nice
We’re from Australasia but don’t want to limit it to just the Steves and Sarahs (no offence Steve or Sarah).
You mean like Keith?
It appears we are having a March
I’m definitely down with this. I genuinely pitched Danger Russ but couldn’t get it past the boss.
I run cachy and have a script set up to launch steam os when I switch to TTY3. Can just keyboard shortcut between cachy and steam os. The steam ‘switch to desktop’ also shuts down steam and switches back to cachy. It’s super nice.
Yeah, it was meant to be one of those ‘temporary’ situations until they found the right people. It became pretty obvious after a while that they weren’t planning on hiring. A couple of months before I quit, I sat down with my boss and told him I couldn’t do my job because I had too much work. I also mentioned that I was burning out. His response was ‘just do what you can’. I gave it a couple of months to see anything would come of our conversation but it didn’t.
The reason that I stayed so long was because it was in an industry that I’m passionate about and that I wanted to be in. I was hoping that things would improve but they didn’t.
After I resigned, they hired 2 people to replace me. I spent my notice period onboarding them.
Left my job 6 months ago because I was burnt out. I went from being a software developer in a team of 4 to being the only developer at the company. Then the IT support guy left so I was also doing IT support for 30 retail stores along with my regular job. I didn’t have a review or pay rise in the 4 years I was with the company. There was some other stuff around data privacy which was the final straw for me so I left. Still unemployed.
Not at work but in High School.
It was the 90s and computers at school had just become a thing. Our school offered a typing class which seemed pretty chill so I signed up for that. I think I was the only guy in the class.
Anyway, I started talking to this girl who sat across from me and we ended up just sending emails back and forth to each other all through class, using our school emails. This went on for weeks. The messages started to get kinda flirty and then eventually they got more than flirty.
So I’m sitting in another class one day, maths or something, and a teacher comes in and asks if I can go with her. She takes me to the principle’s office and sits me down. In walks the principle with typing girl and she sits her down next to me. The principle then dumps a massive pile of paper on the desk and asks us to explain… we of course have no idea what she’s talking about. I pick up a sheet and start reading and my heart drops. It’s our entire email chain, weeks of cringe and filth. They must have been monitoring our emails, right? Wrong.
So we get a bollocking, threatened with suspension, the whole deal, but it wasn’t until we were sent on our way that we started to realise what had actually happened and the gravity of the situation. Over the next few hours some really weird shit started happening. I’d be walking through school and kids I didn’t even know would just start pointing at me, shouting out random things. Even my teachers were being super weird. Everything just felt really off and then my mate filled me in.
Now, to this day, I still don’t know how this happened. I genuinely think that our school email system was set up wrong but somehow, when replying to one of typing girl’s messages, I had forwarded our whole email chain to every person at our school. Every kid. Every teacher. Thousands of them.
It was humiliating.
I was forever known as that guy. Typing girl never talked to me again.
TLDR: I accidentally forwarded weeks worth of dirty emails to our entire school and held on to my virginity.
We’ve got one of those. No idea where he comes from.