Why? Is Korea at UK-level dystopia nightmare?

Any law-enforcement also non-reversible. Do false positives get their years of life back? No. And there is far less scrutiny on that (see DA deal and all that).

Capital punishment just takes all of them instead of few-to-tens of percent of a life (often the most valuable years).

"Years of their life back" - I'm confused: how does a mistaken arrest result in "years of life" being lost in an immigration enforcement snafu?

You do realize that due process exists after an arrest?

Won't happen. In one of those videos, they showed earnings of metal workers and other such professions. It's downwards.

Unless US can solve the problem "That job doesn't pay", there is no way forward. And it can't.

It's just like a textile industry. The only way is if it's all done by robots.

Here is a concrete example of what other comments are talking about (threat that MS/USA is no longer reliable partner).

Microsoft blocked official email account of Karim Khan (a prosecutor of International Criminal Court). That was due to Executive order by president Trump (Executive Order 14203 - Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court).

This makes me depressed. LLMs will take the most enjoyable part of my job and I will be stuck reviewing or fixing bugs in their "it-compiles" codebase.

On the contrary, coding for me has become more fun than ever since Opus 4.5. I'm working more and genuinely enjoying it a lot more, haven't had this much fum building software in years. (I work at Anthropic but have also tried Gemini, it's also fun)

Yes, lived experiences differ from person to person.

Same. I've resurrected side projects and done months of work on them overnight, getting to my true end goals. Creating software is fun. Wrangling a bunch of opinionated libraries and plumbing together systems with terrible ergonomics (i.e. webpack, maybe web development generally?) is bs work I'm glad to not have to do.

I have a slightly different take on it.

Creating software is indeed fun, but the most enjoyable aspects are the "a-ha" moments after you overcome a tricky problem, the confidence boost from creating something that works in an efficient and elegant way, and the dopamine hits associated with those events.

"AI" tools can alleviate some of the tedium of working on plumbing and repetitive tasks, but they also get rid of the dopamine hits. I get no enjoyment from running machine-generated code, having to review it, and more often than not having to troubleshoot and fix it myself.

To me, creating software is not as much about the destination, but about the journey. About the process itself. Yes, some of it is not enjoyable, but overall, there is much more I like about it than not.

Same. I've coded professionally my whole life. I've never enjoyed it as much as I'm doing now and I'm the most productive I've ever been.

There is a lot of data shuttling or shuffling in enterprise applications and if agents can write that part, so be it. I can spend more time on the harder business and technical problems that require creativity and working through the options and potential solutions. Even here, the speed to write multiple different experiments in parallel, is fantastic.

As for “it-compiles” that is nothing new. I have written code that I go back to later and wonder how it ever compiled. I have a process now of often letting the agent prototype and see if it works. Then go back and re-engineer it properly. Does doing it twice save time? Yeah, cause who’s to say my first take on the problem would have been correct and now I have something to look at and say it is definitely wrong or right when considering how to rebuild it for long term usage.

I am sorry this made you feel depressed. I think there are some positives to consider too though:

1. More people that wanted to make games can.

Thanks to unreal engine, you don't need to be a Tim Sweeney level-expert to make compelling games. I see LLMs as another abstraction in the same spirit.

2. You get more leverage

The more abstractions you have, the more you can do with less. This means less bureaucracy, more of a chance to make _exactly_ what you wanted.

I understand how the craft changes underneath you, and that can feel depressing, but if we see it as tools, I think there's lots of good ahead.

Will they ? I don't know why -okay- but I am still suspicious about such claims. This is impressive, but I would be more convinced if the codebase was more complex, that is a toy and uninspiring implementation of a _very_ basic game, the most enjoyable part of your job surely lies in a place that is beyond this "pre-prototype" (almost tutorial-y) state.

I could be wrong of course, and it may be true that your work will change very soon. Maybe someone else has better examples to propose ?

You have agency. There is no invisible hand stopping you from continuing to do what you enjoy.

It's the same when I hear people complain about how complex new UI frameworks are. The web still runs perfectly well on simple html, CSS, and Javascript. There is not federal police force that will arrest you for not using React.

There is invisible hand, literally. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_hand

Yes, I can do it. In my free time. But that part of my job that was enjoyable? Poof. Not anymore. Can't compete, get on with times, be more productive.

I spend a 40% of my "alive" time in work. It's a massive downgrade.

> martydom with front-end frameworks

You are the only one that even mentioned FE frameworks. Or plain JS. Neither was even tangentially mentioned and has nothing to do with my comment.

That invisible hand exists and had always existed, it's the market. Nobody will arrest you, but the enjoyable work simply slowly disappears. Unless we're talking hobby scenarios, but nobody cares about that.

> That invisible hand exists and had always existed, it's the market.

I have never heard a client say "Man, glad you used React". Literally nobody cares what framework you use to build your site. Nobody.

If you didn't know any better you'd think all software developers are chained in a basement where they have absolutely no power to do anything but build React sites.

You sound like a freelancer or something. Every single company I interviewed for in the last couple of years as a full stack dev *required* experience in React/Vue/Angular 2+. With old school js/html/css you wouldn't even pass CV screening. Best you could get with that is some wordpress gig for peanuts.

This comment is pretty off-base.

1.) Those WordPress gigs can make your React gig look like indentured servitude

2.) The company you’re applying to isn’t the client.

3.) “freelancer or something”, like you’re spitting it out? Yes - some of us aren’t handcuffed to mediocrity by 200-1000 person orgs. As the kids say, “Don’t hate.”

I'm not hating, might be a language barrier, I'm from Poland, sorry.

1. Definitely not in my country. The average pay of a Wordpress/PHP dev is half of a modern full stack and the clients are terrible, because it's just websites for small businesses. Modern full stacks don't create websites most of the time, but highly interactive B2B apps.

2. It is absolutely my client. I optimize their happiness not their customers. I have no relationship with the customers, some don't know who I am.

3. I worked as a contractor for a couple of years and I'm not missing the stress and unstable pay. Especially now with a kid on board. Many contracts were actually "hey we need a React/[insert other tech] guy for our current project, wanna join?", not "we have an idea and we don't know how to do it" kind of thing. The latter are super rare and even more stressful, because they come from "non-technical startup founders" often with little money.

Keep in mind that I'm in EU, so the benefits of permanent employment make a huge difference.

Make it source available. It won't help, but you might feel better.

DuckStation (PS1 emulator) changed license from GPL to CC-BY-NC, because Chinese manufacturers were including it in their hw devices. Somehow I doubt that helped.

Because unlike most other functionality, you generally need hw specs or cooperation to write drivers (see Nvidia GSP).

Anyone can write Photoshop (provided reasonable resources). The problem is going to be proprietary file format and compatibility with the ecosystem. It's same with hardware, except several orders of magnitude worse.

It's the classic "think about the children" argument used to push through plethora of other shit. See UK.

I have very low trust in government (mine or other). We had these restrictions before. My country has been there, done that, for 41 years, not keen on repeat.

And unlike corporations (for all their problems and there are many), you can't avoid that.

There is always something worse. We should focus on making things better, not on "at we are not North Korea."

I have no doubt that Germany is insane, but that doesn't retract from fact that current environment is bad. We want it to be "good".

Ah, ja, this wasn't so much a comment about that guy but mostly a comment about Germany. Could have done without the "that guy" sentence, my bad.

Saying it exists only due to badly written regulations is rather bold assertion. It exists, because companies damage what isn't theirs. It is a regulation to protect property rights.

Companies are polluting shared resources. Classic tradegy of commons.

Credits is one of things we have come up that does work.

Sure, we could just ban it outright and say goodbye to industrial civilization. Most people don't agree with that.