It’s the “I need to give a gift” mentality people have, specifically old people. I have told Grandma/Grandpa that I don’t need birthday gifts and such, but they just keep giving gift cards. Because not giving something makes them think they’re bad. While companies make profit, I’d honestly like straight cash over gift cards.
True, but we have to know AI is making it wayy worse. The same people who were barely getting by, are now using AI to write softwares that’ll be used for years to come. And other people that don’t have developer experience and aren’t good themselves don’t have any idea and really trust those developers because “they make things happen” like “magic”. Previously they’d take a lot more time to make something work, it’d be shitty, but it’d be obvious for any developers that come after them. Now detection is hard, and the volume has increased.
I was in a meeting with a senior software engineer, who makes a shit ton more than me. While sharing my screen he saw flame graph I had for one program I was working on. They asked “what is that?”, I was taken back, and said it’s for looking at which functions are taking more time. Then I was asked “where did you find it?” I was shell shocked, didn’t know how to answer that. Similar things have happened before where I taught them certain things, and they go “great find”, like dude, I didn’t find it just now. That’s basic knowledge if you work with database.
I am not even a developer hire, I’m self learned, and because the company doesn’t have many developers they gave me some of the tasks and I’m doing it because it’s more fun than my job responsibilities, and when I don’t have enough tasks.
How do you meet new people though? With work and chores, there’s very limited time. And besides family and friends made through college, I don’t see any way to make friends easily, let alone friends that are like you or are good people in general
Tidal energy is being used in many countries. You don’t have to block the canals. You can build structures in coastlines, or just put underground generators that run automatically without any dams because the water moves without the dams as well