50% of juniors I have seen in my career probably should not be software developers.
They were deeply incurious, no interest in tech nor to understand how things work. Software development makes you use and train your mind for your whole career. That's a brutal thing to do casually. Doing something like that without any real interest is bad for your own life.
Can we get rid of all the AI hype? Normally I find hype just distasteful, but this is distasteful, filling people with dread, and making hardware expensive. The third one is really annoying.
It's just Moore's law and a bubble, there's no singularity.
A car manufacturer wants to open a factory that will provide 10,000 jobs. It has a choice between Britain and Ireland. The CEO earns £1,000,000 a year. Britain introduces a law stating that no CEO can be paid more than 10 times the wage of the lowest paid employee. The CEO realises this would mean paying even the lowest paid cleaners and admin staff £100,000 a year or he will personally face a 75% salary cut. The company chooses to set up in Ireland instead. Britain loses out on 10,000 jobs.
“Software is dead” because you keep vibe coding the same 3 crud apps. If you worked on cool stuff like “distributed game engines” you’d find out that there are plenty of unsolved problems
Bezos had the vision, took the risk, and built Amazon from nothing. Since founding, Amazon has employed roughly 11.5 million worker-years globally, paid about $47.7 billion in disclosed cash income taxes since 2002 alone, and its U.S. workforce has likely generated another roughly $35–45 billion in federal income and payroll taxes. That’s before counting the value created for 200M+ Prime members and 300M+ active customers worldwide whose quality of life has been vastly improved by Amazon.
And you, in your infinite wisdom, want to financially punish the creator of Amazon?
Competition is largely an illusion. 95% of people don't even try to do great things. 0.1% of the people are loud, so you overestimate how many people there are. The rest get stuck worrying about competition and quitting after 2 weeks.