in business people don't value youth
The structures for learning are disappearing faster than new ones are forming. Remote work has accelerated this breakdown, erasing the in-person mentorship that came through proximity. Economic pressure has led many teams to skip the slow burn of junior development altogether.
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working at a big company is basically an accelerated course in how power actually works. once you see the sheer level of inefficiency, rent-seeking, & arbitrary decision-making, it kind of breaks all illusions about big companies.
the best part is realizing that half the people in charge have no clue what they’re doing... See more
signüllx.comlike, you know, no reference point to go off of, that’s ego system. That’s “I am the synthesizer; therefore, you consume me and I give purpose to your identity.” Ecosystem is “I’m showing you every line that I pulled from, and I’m giving you access to every single person.”
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The Death of the Junior Developer
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Gene, as an accomplished and senior author, is delighted with his productivity gains with his LLM of choice, Claude Opus. He showed me a big writing project that he'd just finished, in which he had spent easily 45+ minutes crafting the prompt, refining it until he had a 7500-word narrative that could serve as a starting point for rewriting,
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“The language of the rulers” - Ha-Joon Chang
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#politics #philosophy #economics #rulers
instagram.comThe problem, you see, is that there could be a future where they don't need junior associates anymore.
Increasingly, they need only senior associates, who (a) describe the tasks to be done; i.e., create the prompts, and (b) review the resulting work for accuracy and correctness. The high-end LLMs do so well with tasks normally fielded by junior
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But perhaps even more confounding is that executives at successful social networks are some of the highest status people in the world. Forget first world problems, they have .1% or .001% problems. On a day-to-day basis, they hardly face a single issue that their core users grapple with constantly. Engagement goals may drive them towards building
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I think a lot of kids are in that situation where you know ultimately they're just not being given the codes.
They have, they have unlimited curiosity, but really are not being given the codes.