I found my love for programming in high school, dreaming of helping the world with my beautiful craftsmanship, but now i really really need the fokken money. Both are true!

So if my corporate overlords will have me talk to the soul-less Claude robot all day long in a Severance-style setting, and fix its stupid bugs, but I get to keep my good salary, then I'll shed a small tear for my craft and get back to it. If not... well, then I'll be shedding a lot more tears ... i guess

> many went into this field for money

I went into this field for both! what do i do now, i'm screwed

mostly if the founders are dickheads. That happens often, but may not be the case here.

yeah, and Zuckerberg said that everyone on planet Earth will buy his VR helmet, and renamed his whole company after a stupid game which i don't think even exists anymore. Being a contrarian doesn't mean you are right, and sometimes seemingly stupid money-losing things turn out... stupid.

don't get the hate, cheap tix to Vegas were great, now it's less competition, if their plane config was not to your liking you can pay whatever you want for any other airline, don't get the schadenfreude.

I don't hate low cost carriers. I absolutely want competition.

I was flying Spirit quite frequently. I'm well prepped. I have a backpack that is the maximum size allowed as a personal item, I carry an empty water bottle and a meal from home. They have an option where you can bid on exit row and big seats in advance. I'd bid the lowest amount ($4-10) and almost always win the upgrade.

Not everyone is aware of this though. I dislike businesses that prey on customers' lack of knowledge to bombard them with fees.

The guy next to me on a flight last year got hit with a $80 fee at the gate because his bag was an inch or so too big. It was his first time flying Spirit. It was cheaper for him to discard that bag and purchase a smaller bag for the flight back.

How much more nickel and diming is there left to be done? Standing seats? [1]

Very anecdotal evidence, but I was on a trip last week and Spirit was more expensive than American which is what I chose. I'm not loyal to any airline.

No one was at the gate hounding at people for bag sizes. I had Wi-Fi on the plane and got a drink and a small snack. My knees also appreciated the slightly longer legroom.

[1] https://www.thrillist.com/travel/nation/standing-seats-budge...

This sounds like nightmare fuel compared to just getting a $100 - $150 annual fee credit card for your preferred airline for free checked bag and just buying your seat.

I am mostly loyal to Delta and by the end of the year, my wife and I will have flown over a dozen times on our dime - many of those shorter flights. I like free checked bags, priority check in, etc

pretty fucked up if it runs into an asteroid or a comet!

Is this is a joke? Of course it's not going to kill ad-funded anything, ads will still be there 100% in some form, except now all the ad money will go to 1-2 companies instead of the whole world of web publishers. Very smart cheering that on!

> Handing your codebase to an AI company is not nothing.

it's a battle that's already lost a long time ago. Every crappy little service by now indexes everything. If you ever touch Github, Jira, Datadog, Glean (god forbid), Upwork, etc etc they each have their own shitty little "AI" thing which means what? Your project has been indexed, bagged and tagged. So unless you code from a cave without using any saas tools, you will be indexed no matter what.

I feel like this was understood. SaaS has your data, and the pan is very hot. Two lessons that learn quickly with experience.

> When it is worth the pain to load a large bundle in exchange for having really small network requests after the load

...and yet, i keep running into web (and even mobile apps) that load the bundle, and subsequent navigation is just as slow, or _even slower_. Many banking websites, checking T-Mobile balance... you wait for the bundle to load on their super-slow website, ok, React, Angular, hundreds of megs, whatever. Click then to check the balance, just one number pulled in as tiny JSON, right? No, the website starts flashing another skeleton forever, why? You could say, no true SPA that is properly built would do that, but I run into this daily, many websites and apps made by companies with thousands of developers each.

Yeah, I see a lot of poorly written back-end APIs too.

backend has many traps but no one totally dominating "load the slow bundle once, near-native subsequent page loads" narrative which is (for whatever the reason!!) a non-existent illusion on most average daily websites.

> I'm able to quickly stop it and fix any mistake it makes

I would think that's the process too, but according to the article the dude is almost completely hands off:

> You come back to ten thousand lines of code. You spend 5 minutes reading. One sentence of feedback. Another ten thousand lines appear while you're making lunch.

You can't humanly review 10 thousand lines of code in 5 minutes. This is either complete bullshit or it really writes flawless code for them and never makes any mistakes.