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  • Yes, that’s the joke.

    AI creates almost (but not) good enough stuff really fast. And occasionally straight up hallucinates stuff that is meaningless or worse.

    So this person has a huge stack of functional but broken crap, and it’s blaming X for their woes.

    There’s an old saying that goes roughly “It takes four times the experience to maintain a program as it took to write it. So anyone writing the most clever program they can think of is, by definition, not competent to maintain it.”

    In this case, it’s extra funny, because neither the AI nor the AI user has the faintest idea how the generated code works. So maintaining it is almost certainly 1000% outside their abilities.

    So they’ve paid an AI for the privilege unpleasant daily panic of learning everything they need to learn after the app has gone to production, rather than before.




  • As a hiring manager, I hear “my position is a one year contract” fairly regularly. It tells me a couple things:

      1. This person is talent I wouldn’t have access to if not for the expiring contract.
      1. There’s a solid chance that the current employer gets off their ass and makes a permanent offer when they realize I’ve made an offer.

    Honestly, neither is a negative, to me.

    • Regarding 1, I do like when I get a shot at talent that wouldn’t normally be on the market. I have a track record of successfully recruiting and retaining those folks.
    • Regarding 2, Knowing there’s a chance their current employer will counter-offer is pretty normal for the talent I hire. I already account for that when making my job offers.

    So overall, as others have said, I would just tell the truth about this. Everyone has a right to look out for their job security.




  • In my experience

    That’s great, and that’s why it’s an option.

    But research consistently shows that everyone is different and has different learning needs.

    More ways to learn means more people succeed in learning.

    Now your specific question is still quite interesting, with emphasis added to default:

    Why it is not the default option for universities?

    I think online is rapidly becoming the default for anything that can be learned online, for anyone who can learn online.

    But I’m thankful that we have both community colleges and universities for things that cannot be effectively taught online and for people who needs more modes of learning.






  • Im not sure what is going to happen when I have kids

    For me, it went like this:

    • I’m afraid I’ll drop or hurt this tiny helpless child.
    • But this tiny helpless child can’t even go drink milk by itself.
    • I guess I can only make things better helping it get milk. I’ll just be really careful.
    • That wasn’t so bad. I guess I can do this.

    Then repeat in stages every 15 minutes or so as it needs diapers, or cuddles to warm up, or cleaned, or milk again, or diapers again.

    Until eventually I’m confidently picking it up in a moment of complete terror so that it won’t run out into traffic.