Comment by deadbabe
8 days ago
Maybe they should fire these kids and replace them with REAL engineers.
And I know some of those kids probably read Hackernews, so here’s the advice: put away ChatGPT and learn what the fuck you’re doing.
8 days ago
Maybe they should fire these kids and replace them with REAL engineers.
And I know some of those kids probably read Hackernews, so here’s the advice: put away ChatGPT and learn what the fuck you’re doing.
> Maybe they should fire these kids and replace them with REAL engineers.
Nah, they'll want reasonable pay, reasonable hours, and won't confuse their boss for a living god. They may even have some self-confidence and morals, which would be a total deal breaker.
Most importantly, they will refuse to participate in the administration's regular human centipede rituals.
Did you mean to say humancentiPad?
Sadly you're both right.
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The one good thing about them all being so young is it explains why I never got an interview; at 28 I was too old to ever get a job there
Why would you apply to work in this debacle. Ever.
To move slow and break DOGE?
You can criticize it all you want but I'd be working directly for the President and the richest man alive, doing incredible LLM-powered work that's basically never been done before. Not only would all the work be innovative (and thus fun), but it would look incredible on a resume
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Yup. At 28 you’re going to have way more things in your life distracting you from the job, you’re probably prioritizing work life balance which is a red flag.
These are ideologues, not earnest professionals.
You need someone who is
1. Good experienced engineer
2. Without ethics
3. Happy to be paid below market rate of a good experienced engineer without ethics.
Not just below market rate… my understanding is a number of DOGE “employees” are actually volunteers.
It would be interesting if government moved toward some kind of open source contributor model where any engineer could just pick up some issue and solve it.
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