"everyone saying that i'm the smartest kid they've ever met. I'm talking like a grown up, can do calculus like a grown up - i think i will be a professor at 18. lol"
"You call that smart??? i've been carried around on arms and let'em swipe my a* until I was 6.."
Working hard in the correct game is rewarding. The point made here is that if you have picked the wrong game, you are wasting your time.
So yes senior programmers
currently are being rewarded very generously due to the fact that software historically had near zero marginal cost. You could have write once and sell 10 billion times.
This changed. AI now requires significant capital investment per customer, and also there is non zero chance that it replaces programmers completely. Aka expect companies will have less appetite to reward good programmers.
So I don’t think the odds of working hard in software engineering look very good.
remembers me of the joke:
two 7y old meet:
"everyone saying that i'm the smartest kid they've ever met. I'm talking like a grown up, can do calculus like a grown up - i think i will be a professor at 18. lol"
"You call that smart??? i've been carried around on arms and let'em swipe my a* until I was 6.."
This is Reddit antiwork slop.
I make work hard and make really good money. The lazy people end up unemployed in one of the worst economies in my life time.
Working hard in the correct game is rewarding. The point made here is that if you have picked the wrong game, you are wasting your time.
So yes senior programmers currently are being rewarded very generously due to the fact that software historically had near zero marginal cost. You could have write once and sell 10 billion times.
This changed. AI now requires significant capital investment per customer, and also there is non zero chance that it replaces programmers completely. Aka expect companies will have less appetite to reward good programmers.
So I don’t think the odds of working hard in software engineering look very good.
Then your comment is survivorship bias and Just World fallacy slop.
Have you never heard of someone who works hard, and doesn't make good money? Plenty of examples in manual labour jobs around the planet.
Have you never heard of someone who doesn't work hard, and does make really good money? Plenty of examples of that, too.
You make work hard?
Are you one of my coworkers?