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No, they want you to search multiple times to show you more ads.

Stay in touch until they do need you and say : you were right. That's the day you charge them a dear price for the service.

That assumes OP will still be in business if that day even happens. Odds are that cheap AI access will be around for longer than freelancers can remain solvent.

Agreed. Memcache is great until you get into the business of having to configure slabs. Most people just reach for redis at that point.

Brother, you voluntarily worked overtime without compensation because you "loved it" and thought you were already highly compensated. All this means is that your company took advantage of free labor and you missed out on being paid for your work. Whatever your compensation levels are, giving free labor to your employer is a foolish game. 60+ hours a week for years, come on...those projects are absolutely mismanaged if the work can’t be done without that much overtime.

So which industry was changed dramatically by your team working 60+ hours a week for years? If you we’re compensated for overtime you can thank unions for that, if you worked voluntarily overtime you were by definition taken advantage of.

As for disposable code slingers? That’s been true for the last 30+ years.

The last 30 years saw massive growth in SWE salaries. That doesn’t happen if SWEs are disposable.

Yes because using "clankermaxxing" in your writing is totally not soulless. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb--BiQogQ8

Working 60+ hours a week for years is nothing to brag about. It just means your projects were mismanaged, done poorly and you were absolutely taken advantage of. You also mentioned in another comment that you are disposable if you are "slinging code" 40+ hours a week.

I think however that all that is needed to bridge the gap is some very simple feedback from an expert at the right time.

I don't think it's as simple as that. What will most likely happen is that the vibe coders will quickly eat up your time asking for validation and feedback if you are not careful. You are also now implicitly contributing to their project, which if it goes south, could come back to bite you. If the vibe coders are pushing code in the org, then they should become part of the formal review process like any other junior programmer.

They should also be forced to do daily stand-ups, sit in meetings and explain their code like the rest of us.

Governments can certainly regulate imports.

Perhaps US companies should invest more in their employees then? Advancement, promotions beyond %1-3% COLAs, career paths, etc would go along way to keep employees interested in seeing their employers succeed instead of jumping ship every couple of years. The would require some effort from the C-suite however and since they jump ship every few years as well, I don't see that changing anytime soon.

I’ve read a lot of hot takes on HN, but Carl Sagan harming society is on a whole new level.

Job cuts no, but your next nurse might just be a "gig nurse" that bid the lowest for the job. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/21/healthcare-n...

I suppose it's a cultural thing for Americans then too, given the current White House occupant? I don't know, maybe every culture just has their share of shitty people.

Yeah, I hear you...working with your team mates is for smooth-brained chumps. Not like us 100x engineers.

or maybe just ask someone for help first before you go breaking stuff?

I just asked Gemini and you did not come up.

That is the bait and switch. The end goal is that you are out of the equation. Your perceived effectiveness at using AI as an exchange of labor diminishes over time to the point that you become irrelevant.

Adapting implies you are still a part of the environment though. AI is on a trajectory to replace you and take you out of the environment.

Force yourself to take time off work. You are human after all. Don’t feel guilty about sitting and doing nothing. Relaxation takes some time to set in, tell yourself you are just out of practice. The constantly online/being available culture we have isn’t sustainable.

Wagtail is fantastic. Pretty much the go to Python-based CMS to use these days.

It's OK to be critical of billionaires.

I'm sure there is a lot of nuance but long term healthcare outcomes are generally lower in the US compared to other countries. https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/quality...

This is my experience as well. OP is parroting a common talking point from the groups that want to privatize education.

Not to mention that we now know it appears to be especially detrimental during childhood learning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd-_VDYit3U

What’s your point? Journalists have jobs?

Also litigation. I'd imagine there are a number of patent trolls in the space.

My experience is that the folks in charge of spending and making decisions are looking at AI as another means of outsourcing. Payroll, ERPs and CRMs went from commodity software to subscription services and anything that is subscription based is getting scrutinized much more heavily now.

I agree with you in the short term but what makes you think companies will even be asking AI to write bespoke software or setup any kind of infrastructure in the long term? Theoretically AI would handle all of this for you with much greater fidelity and accuracy than any human could manage. Any business processes would be handled by the AI which already has all of your corporate data. Why would I need a SaaS service when I could have the AI do the task or generate the answer? Why would I send data to a SaaS when I can just give it to the AI? Granted I don't believe we are anywhere close to such a scenario, but it seems to be the trajectory that we are on.

TBF, open source alternatives don't have the legions of sales teams wining and dining VPs to get the contracts.

No one wants to host, maintain, and be liable for shit other people can do better for less money.

I think the point is that AI will be able to do this better and cheaper than the SaaS companies.