I once made a good roll and my character threw a goat at a kobold. Halflings +1 to throwing.
My DM started to calculate the damage, gave up and just said the kobold died. Then we figured out goats had more hp than kobolds and had a goat in the party...til the end of the campaign lol. It's was out goat of holding.
I kinda like the fediverse as is. We keep slowly growing our services. We don't need to be social media.
We can be social sure but without the need to be ever growing. I would rather us concentrate on the people and giving us power rather than huge orgs that are going to do huge org things.
Ive found my highest paying roles were in traditional workplaces with very specific duties. Startups in my area dont usually do well. But I hear stories of people hitting big. Seems like a very high risk/reward situation.
Yep users move over time. Its the natural order of things. I disagree with the article that moving away from SO is "bad news for developers " as long as we have something better in the works. It looks like Discord is the thing everyone is jumping on, which kinda sucks.
The article also goes into it, but I think the invent of AI and asking somewhat specific questions may also explain the decline. If you can get a result that can get you 90% of the way there with an AI that used stack overflow as a resource, theres no reason to actually ask on stack overflow. Its faster to go on the AI result or go on google/bing/etc...etc... that has the answer right there on the page.
And the redesign....its pretty bad in my opinion.
I was once downvoted answering a question on a library....that I created on stack overflow. Still makes me laugh.
For me:
I did a LOT of contracting/small jobs at first and found im pretty good at anything that plugs into the wall. Then found out you can get paid if you just deliver reliably.
Also getting into a niche can help your $$. I did EDI for a bit and it helped later on. No one knows EDI (for good reason).
Oh yeah, ive been doing this for close to 20 years now. I have YEARs worth of savings if need be. If they want to get rid of me, ill have a job lined up in a couple of months as im literally at the beach. I dont work overtime.
Time is a much more valuable commodity. I appreciate the comment.
My guess? The freemium stuff gives the promise of $$ after a certain level of popularity. And they make it VERY easy to use.
Personally, ive been thinking of using writefreely for its seamless integration of fediverse...but I really dont have a lot to say in the traditional space. IE screaming at the wailing wall (or at least it feels like screaming at the wailing wall).
I feel like this is a repeat of the "just hire someone overseas" again. The projects will go haywire after an initial promise...and the only ones that can fix it are the experienced devs. Cant tell you how many projects I got over the years like that.
I hacked my CPAP. I removed the cancer causing material and did work getting the software in a better state. Also removed the mobile chip that communicates with the original company. Fun times.
I think its important to figure out what you mean by AI?
Im thinking a majority of people here are talking about LLMs BUT there are other AIs that have been quietly worked on that are finally making huge strides.
AI that can produce songs (suno) and replicate voices. AI that can reproduce a face from one picture (theres a couple of github repos out there). When it comes to the above we are dealing with copyright infringement AI, specifically designed and trained on other peoples work. If we really do have laws coming into place that will deregulate AI, then I say we go all in. Open source everything (or as much as possible) and make it so its trained on all company specific info. And let anyone run it. I have a feeling we cant put he genie back in the bottle.
If we have pie in the sky solutions, I would like a new iteration of the web. One that specially makes it difficult or outright impossible to pull into AI. Something like onion where it only accepts real nodes/people in ingesting the data.
I once made a good roll and my character threw a goat at a kobold. Halflings +1 to throwing.
My DM started to calculate the damage, gave up and just said the kobold died. Then we figured out goats had more hp than kobolds and had a goat in the party...til the end of the campaign lol. It's was out goat of holding.