Hahaha I think our alts all got some attention last week. I switched to a more local one rather than interest based, so it was actually cool seeing more geographically relevant posts.
It's given me more appreciation for the other instances of lemmy overall.
That's my intuition too. In my experience, adopting AI mostly has lead to marginally faster MVPs, balooning sloc in PRs, and an explosion of wildly unqualified people applying for tech roles and sometimes even getting them.
It's a better kind of nihilistic business story to say that LLMs have been so disruptive, that people are getting fired, rather than investors are scared and greedy and are just being guided around by vibes and their amygdalae right now.
What you're doing is the secret sauce already, you're just missing luck. Obviously take whatever job you need to pay rent in the meantime, but if you keep it up then I think you'll get something eventually.
It is the worst time in all of history to be a software developer looking for work, so don't internalise it.
I think we're going to see a big shift towards small to medium IT/dev companies, and a ton of freelancers. I'm one of those, because I'm about to start doing IT work for businesses in my small town.
My friend is a townie, and he does this. Actually, we've been musing about putting our lot in together, since I usually work for the corp outfits, except I can't find fuck all lately in the 9-5 realm.
Honestly I wonder, hypothetically, if .world shutting down right now would actually be better for the fediverse.
If it continues to be seen as the "default instance" it just becomes a bigger point of failure. And arguably more pernicious, becomes the cultural equivalent of a reddit.
Then I start to think crazy thoughts like what if private capital took an interest in a giant instance. Idk, I'm being way too paranoid I know I know
We might eventually have to get more exclusive, or have separate "public" and "private" modes/communities, maybe like how masto handles post visibility...
I'm not sure if the open internet can ever be fully trusted, especially now with roving packs of predatory crawlers scraping for genuine human OC for their plagiarism machines.
It's larger than 1, which is the number of people of people the article is holding up as some kind of Cassandra.