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@RedPillRabbit After 30 years as a software engineer, in large companies and small (Oracle, Apple, Salesforce among others), I’ve worked with exactly 3 Indians who I would consider highly qualified. Some can get by and kind of pull their own weight, but the vast majority are useless.

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@AIHighlight Anthropic’s customer support AI is so freaking useless. You would think of all AIs, that one would work properly.

It doesn’t even give you answers. All it does is say “someone will get back to you” and ghost you.

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@AngelaBelcamino Let me get the shocked pikachu meme out that I prepared 2 weeks ago.

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@TSMERDIST And yet we’ve somehow muddled through. Even took out a dictator or two.

We don’t need you. Go home.

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@PPSP_OVER_9000 @tunguz All it does is throw obstacles in everyone’s way and takes credit when they overcome those obstacles.

If you really want to be Agile, don’t f*cking make me try to predict the delivery schedule down to the hour in 2028.

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SAFe tries to take principles that are situationally good and force-fit it to everything.

Sometimes it’s good to release multiple times a day to production. Sometimes it’s really bad. It depends.

Unfortunately all the people who are too stupid to understand the difference went right into TPM and SAFe.

Anyone at work who brings up SAFe instantly loses my respect.

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My friends who went to UCLA/Cal Poly took classes on stuff they just assumed we knew already (like C - I wasn’t kidding when they just handed out assignments. I learned it on the fly).

Their upper division classes were freshman level at Berkeley. Our upper division classes were graduate level there. I wrote my own OS complete with multithreading and filesystem in a junior year semester.

Of course now most of that stuff comes for free with a Claude subscription, but you still have to be able to build something coherent with the pieces.

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@BadFaithComment @_litongdeng Yes. The year I graduated, they took a survey and found out we collectively averaged 1 all-nighter a week.

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@Codex_Chronus @_litongdeng Whenever we met a MIT computer science grad, we would silently nod to each other and look down on the Stanford grad who truly had it easy.

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@BoSnerdley Because we know how honest and upstanding all postal workers are.

And postmarks are impossible to forge.

And all addresses are 100% accurate and up to date.

And my great great great great grandmother and auntie might have once set foot in LA, so their vote counts.

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@doogadoo11 Most people probably didn’t vote for Karen Bass, but all their dead relatives did.

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This is exactly what I’m experiencing as a software engineer.

AI generates code at a 1000x rate, but all at roughly a new junior engineer level. There is no way for all that code to be reviewed by any criteria that even resembles reasonable.

Maybe you don’t care about consequences, like Instagram letting accounts get hijacked left and right, but if your company depends on the code working correctly or people die, there’s no way.

If anything, you need more senior/staff level oversight, and nobody at that level wants to do code reviews all day.

What it all means is that high IQ problem solving is even more important than ever. Dumb engineers who just follow a script without any critical thinking will bring disaster.

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@emilyjuniper_ You didn’t vote democrat. All my dead relatives did, though.

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@catturd2 Mark my words, there won’t be a republican in sight because the counting won’t end until the democrats win.

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@Sassafrass_84 You don’t understand!!

It takes time to print ballots and stamp them all with yesterday’s postmark.

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@AngelaBelcamino They don’t care about making the city better. They only care about the money they can continue to scam from government programs.

It doesn’t matter if the entire city burns to the ground as long as their house is the only one left standing.

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@MIsm4rt455 @michaelmalice By all reasonable estimation, plenty of people have traded favors for blowjobs from Gavin Newsom, so…

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@ayeshaijazkhan @NickJFuentes What happened in the past has little to do with what happens today.

The fact is that the “colonizers” brought you into the industrial age, and all you’ve done with it is find new ways to die on camera.

You contribute nothing to the world. Go home.

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I’ve been asked about needing sponsorship regularly for the past 2 years, especially because I have a foreign sounding name.

Whether it’s a factor in the decision is something I don’t know.

My impression is that the larger the company, the more they want H1-Bs, but my current startup does have a few. However, the focus is on being able to do the job, not on visa status.

This type of H1-B is paid at market rates and can find other companies to sponsor them based on skill, different from the ones hired purely on low cost or nepotism. Incompetence is glaring and not tolerated in this environment. No kickback schemes can survive because nothing is under the radar.