The boom age of apps is over. Supply already outstripped demand before AI. Nobody is installing 14 apps a week.
You need to make a product first and that isn't just farting out code.
Learning this at work too -- faster code delivery cannot fix a lack of process change tolerance
a staff engineer at my old company got laid off during โcost cutting.โ
his entire farewell meeting was 12 minutes long.
week later:
payment service started randomly failing.
turns out he was manually fixing edge-case data corruption every night for 3 years.
nobody even knew.
the most dangerous systems are the ones surviving because of one invisible engineer.
This scene is proof of something that I have long suspected. The bit is basically as good as however much you like the guy performing it (I like this guy thank you @dropout for the intro to him)
I am so mad that
@TMobile
bought my local fiber provider because now other solicitors come around and I have to consider it. I will never forgive
USI for selling out. Internet was solved. I was never going to change providers again.
Yesterday day at church there was an announcement for a young adults meetup for people in their 20's and 30's.
It made sense to me. But also I was like look I just turned 40 I am still a young adult.