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Makes sense. The "Flying cars" were not used literally in the post though but rather as a way of expressing the more interesting things we can build.

Looking for a new role has been harder than ever, at least for me personally. I've been looking for a year now and noticed that a large number of companies advertise roles which weren't meant for hiring and this manifests as non responsiveness, repetitiveness of the ad etc.

I've spent a lot of time reading ads, applying to ads, writing cover letters and customizing my application and I can confidently say that over 40% of these went into ghost jobs. I find existing tools either indifferent or too noisy and hence thought of coming up with a collaborative and to the point simple website to track these ghost jobs and help every tech job seeker focus on what matters.

It's really basic but if people find it useful we can always make it better!

Yes. Heavy curation and high quality content and journalism, from humans to humans.

What does responsibility mean? How does it translate to actual work and skills?

That's the best thing I've read in months if not years.

Yawn.

Recruiting is hard. Global recruiting is really hard.

Good times.

I really think we are modern slaves in a pseudo-liberal capitalistic wrapper. It's going to become clearer to future generations looking back, similar to how we are now able to detect and understand mistakes of the past. Male toxicity and patriarchy for example only recently began to surface as a mistake.

While we still jobs and offer our services to society there are a number of things that need to fix and delete from our collective consciousness. All these stem from the same root of evil: the office. Similar to plants, we, the workers are gathering there, under some occult organizational umbrella which sometimes resembles a "family". We need to be there on a specific time, do specific things, we are being monitored and controlled. We need to behave in a certain way and leave our true self at home. We need to blindly obey a person called "the boss" or "the manager" and act under some military discipline executing commands. We need to climb some ladder of promises, most of which fail to deliver. This is a dark place full of lack of trust, insecurity and control.

Diversity, flexible working, remote working, shared vision and mission are some of the things that we have realized and applied. I am glad that we did but there is still a lot of work to be done. Working needs to be more like the freelancer/consultant type where possible: get the job done and you're paid attitude, rather than a weird let's have you around stand-by just in case. Similar to how an electrician comes to your place fixes the damage and immediately leaves, where possible workers need to do the same. Can you imagine your electrician spending her day at your place, 9-5? Sitting there just in case? And you will get to threaten, trash talk, be the boss and give orders.

We are still in the Palaeolithic era when it comes to how we work, with some improvements indeed but with also the heaviest pressure from the most powerful people globally.

I think that's spot on. The timing is good too as recently Meta published a new music generating AI agent which was trained on music outside of the public domain. IP concerns are up in the air and it looks like Neural Nets can be fed with anything these days.

I see what you mean and you're not wrong. However given that you hire good senior engineers and that you trust them, most companies can resolve these issues. Coordinating activities is a project manager's thing which should have to do with gantt diagrams and not with micro-managing engineers. Very few companies are having complex software similar to OS, therefore being in need of the management that you're referring to. It's astonishing how managers responsible for building a button are reading the mythical man month and think they are the same.

Apparently this is a junior person's blog promotion and hence the controversial (or plain wrong for me) title which has raised several discussions here.

Since we are talking about it though, let's apply the 5 whys: 1. Why do companies need managers? Because they need they're employees to be managed 2. Why do companies need their employees to be managed? Because they are not certain that they will follow the company's short/long-term strategy and vision 3. Why are they not certain? Because they're having trust issues 4. Why are they having trust issues? Because they are not investing in proper hiring 5. Why are they not investing in proper hiring? Because it's expensive and requires tremendous multidisciplinary skills, time and effort

We are dealing with one night stands masked as serious dates ladies and gentlemen. Managers are just pawns which patch the original issue. Solving hiring would make them redundant.

Instead of having been "promoted" to a shepherd?

I think this makes a lot of sense.

We don't need IP cases in courts people, nyolfen resolved them all with his unbeatable argument

"very little European culture makes it into American culture"

LOL, I love Americans and America but seriously? Like what is already there is not enough :D

That's implementation details. It could be the case that no art produced in the EU can be used as training data (or similar), not necessarily that EU AI models are forbidden from being trained on art. I find the former case the most probable.

"That being said - it's happening, and nothings going to stop it"

Well, the European Union is already working on a legal framework for AI. It happened with GDPR and it will happen again.

That's very interesting, any sources?

I may as a composer be biased but AI "generating" music is just sad. The hypocrisy is that musicians have been suing each other for intellectual property reasons, while this thing is being trained on everyone's music. The law should catch up on this. I get that it's going to improve but for now it's also just elevator/supermarket music.

How on earth can you eat like that?

Progressing into adulthood will make you see further. Hang on.

There is no excuse. One way or the other it's really bad management. You may not realize it but 7% is a massive piece of the pie. Why did you hire those people Gitlab in the first place?

The macroeconomic environment isn't tough, my equity stock and shares could have been better but are doing just fine. And if it were tough, it would justify layoffs of 1%, not 7%. Covid, the Russian war and energy crisis have been going on for years now but they didn't stop you from hiring Gitlab. Your irresponsible hiring patterns show mediocrity, corporate chaos.

Exploiting the situation to rollback hiring mistakes is not justified. Nor experimenting with peoples' lives.

I can assure you that remote work is here to stay for good and that managers will get a real job in the long-term :)

We don't care.

I can share how much I'm paying for renting a shithole in London with you if that makes you feel any better :)

Just do an optional text update for f** sake. If you don't trust your people, don't hire them in the first place.

You asked about bots and spam but I want to talk about the content degradation. YT has been heavily commercialised and lots of people are trying to make a living out of it. Most videos are about keeping viewers for as much time possible watching your content. As a result what would have been a 2-minute video becomes a 20-minute video with introductions, discussions about the weather and silly sales/crowd manipulation tricks. Content is key and I really don't have the time for such a time waster: I'm always skipping to the point or completely ignoring absurdly long videos.

Looking for a free ad, Gitlab?

Still irrationally expensive. You need 4 years to break even and then you may make another 20k in 4 years. 8 years full of risk to make a profit of 20k while the platform is going to be 16 years old? Not worth it.