Some folks definitely give off a "How do you do, fellow coders?" vibe

When I was doing my graduate work about 20 years ago, I focused on algorithmic art and visualizations (from code perspective), and even then I was making stuff that was at par with the digital media artists in the program (meaning people couldn't tell or realize I was making this all with scripts).

I was then and still now strongly of the opinion that copying a trend or leaning on "style" is not really "art". You have to say something more than that, or be so unique in your style that you are the first to go down a path.

Not defending job losses by any means, more just that this has been going on a long time and folks need to be careful. Derivative style movies and animation are probably going to be largely automated (by the movie industry)

> big advances have come from humans having more "idle time"

A few people

Which ones?

Generally the rich.

More like house flippers drywalling over the bad wiring and weird framing. "Looks good!"

They could stop at F and treat it as hexadecimal by adding digits: Series 4F, etc

So that's what 10x means - 10 times the code because your app has no dependencies

> Concerns that should have been handled in the initial call, somehow get pushed back till after I've wasted monumental amount of time.

Honestly these "reasons" they give are usually BS excuses when it basically amounts to they don't like your personality or looks.

Did I mention no one told me what the compensation package was at any point during the process.

It's a contractor life for me, I work for money, not "purpose" or anything else.

Hell my Facebook (technically a fully owned subsidiary to be fair) interview loop was easier. I didn't get the job that time either, but at least it was straight up.

> Did I mention no one told me what the compensation package was at any point during the process.

In previous HN threads they said something to the effect that they expect their applicants to have read what’s online about their equal base salary. Equity is not equally applied though.

I'm not talking about Oxide here, this was a different company.

Eh. I've been on a bunch of hiring committees. It hasn't been personality or looks. But a combination of things that we probably didn't all agree on and that may not have been able to fully articulate in a short message.

And let's get real: AI companies will not be satisfied with you paying $20 or even $200 month if you can actually develop your product in a few days with their agents. They are either going to charge a lot more or string you along chasing that 20%.

That's an interesting business model actually : "Oh hey there, I see you're almost finished your project and ready to launch, watch theses adverts and participate in this survey to get the last 10% of your app completed"

"code by hand" is frequently figuring out what the project is even supposed to do and not the slow part (at least for me).

The silver lining is realizing that many of my mgmt never cared about good code or quality to begin with. So I was fooling myself. The AI/LLM excitement just makes it more obvious now.

So much this. No one ever really cared about “good code” except some engineers who took an irrational amount of pride in their code.

However a lot of the modern world is carried by 'pride of workmanship' - and not just by those who 'make'. It's an extension of the 'planting trees' parable, to care about things even though you are not immediately (or ever) rewarded.

Yes, just the people who actually made a difference in our profession, as opposed to producers of slop and corporate shit.

As civilizations declined, pride in one's work, would have been more or less as described in this comment.

If you did it for management yes.

But that's soviet bureucracy and Potempkin villages with extra steps.