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colesantiago

5,294karma·2,469submissions·July 16, 2017
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there will be new jobs.
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I’m glad that the age of platform decay and VC backed companies that these OSS alternatives exist to counter this destructive trend of extraction based vendor lock in. Vercel, Netlify and Heroku will …
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Hot take: I don't see a problem with this and in fact we will see in a few years that senior engineers will be needed less in the future. I have a business which is turning in millions in ARR at …
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it's fine, there will be new jobs.
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Stripe is known for using MongoDB heavily. https://stripe.com/blog/how-stripes-document-databases-suppo... If Stripe is using it this means it should be a good choice.…
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You should add: “Taste over testing.” If you feel that it works then that’s the vibe right? Who needs software testing and maintenance when we can just apply our human taste to our software. Somebod…
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The techo-optimistic people really need to answer the question on the middle classes and on the poor’s minds. How can anyone be techno-optimistic about the future where AI is mass replacing their jobs…
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Listen. Leave the UK. There is nothing here and no tech jobs at all. Nothing will change unless you leave the country and search for other opportunities.
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Why isn't there an open source self hosted Wiz competitor, perhaps now one can start to emerge after this acquisition for those who don't want Google.
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How is anyone that is a software engineer that has been replaced by AI going to make rent?
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Good. OpenAI, Anthropic, et al, are getting sucked into a vortex of competition with China that is ultimately going to zero. AI is the ultimate race to zero. There is no moat. AI and intelligence is b…
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Yes. This is fantastic and this needs to happen. Modern SaaS has gotten out of control and it needs to go to zero. AI is already engaging in the race to zero, so why not get there faster with open sou…
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Is this open source? I'm assuming it is since I see a GitHub logo on it, although it isn't working...
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What happened to the techno optimistic abundance of everything that the VCs and tech founders were shilling? "...the lifting of billions of people out of poverty to share in the new technologies,…
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I'll give you a hint: data.
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So is this not one of the earliest grifts?
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All of this can be summed up as "The Race to Zero" If you make a product or a SaaS product and try to charge a dime for it, eventually 30 other competitors of the same service will offer a f…
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"Firefox needs new revenue streams to be sustainable. New products and services under Mozilla’s umbrella should reflect the same commitment to privacy that defines Mozilla." This is admirabl…
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Are remote jobs completely over now with rampant AI fakers? How common does this happen now?
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Is this open source?
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You shouldn't process the news, at least not the big ones anyway. Most news nowadays is mostly slop with clickbait headlines of breaking news, designed to get you to pay for "premium" a…
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There doesn't seem to be anything new here with Rust and Go that we already didn't know. Reading the article, it looks like this article is generated by an LLM, as most things are nowadays.…
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Donation page to Revolt before Discord succumbs to platform decay or (enshittification) after being owned by Wall Street soon. https://wiki.revolt.chat/notes/project/financia…
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Donation page to Revolt before Discord succumbs to platform decay or (enshittification) after being owned by Wall Street soon. https://wiki.revolt.chat/notes/project/financia…
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I've seen hundreds of these types of apps, to the point that I used Claude to build my own similar version of this app with similar features 100% for free. What is the moat / advantage here …
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