> When you pay it off, you're not spending $thousands per month just for a place to live.
Not everyone wants to live somewhere long enough to pay off a place though. It’s no different than other financial choices. The best decision for the individual isn’t always the most rational.
I’m with you on renting instead of buying. I owned a home until a divorce. It wasn’t for me. I had to develop a whole network of unreliable contractors, which was time-consuming and the repairs and repairs to fix bad repairs all added up. Then our property taxes doubled in a year, raising a mortgage quite a bit and would continue to rise. I didn’t want to stay there for 30 years and while it did go up in value, there really wasn’t much of a guarantee that owning it would lead to actually owning a house out right in the future. Seemed to me like I was renting from the bank instead of owning but responsible for all the costs of ownership. For me now the flexibility of renting is priceless. I can move around and not feel tied down by someone else’s dream.
I consult internally in a large tech company on management among other org design and behavior topics.
I recommend Managing Humans and Bringing up the Boss. They are the most practical and useful day to day. Avoid Making of a Manager. It’s recommended often but it’s a memoir masquerading as a management book and way too focused on the writers specific situation.
Also get coffee with your HRBP. They are a wealth of knowledge and best to start the relationship before you really need them.
Its not just psychology. All science is affected. Stuart Ritchie’s Science Fictions describes cases from across many disciplines. The worst are cases of misconduct in medical research with maybe the worst case being Paolo Macchiarini who fooled the Karolinska Institute of Nobel fame into letting him experiment on patients with trachea replacement surgeries:
https://news.ki.se/the-macchiarini-case-timeline
NYC was founded as and continues to be a financial capital, its where deals are done, so that strong anchor among its overall diversified economy helped. SF is somewhat similar to Detroit in that their economies are less diversified but weather and geography is a major advantage.
This book was really disappointing. The characters were all underdeveloped, remaining angsty melodramatic teenagers until the end despite them all being adults. It also tries to deal with some heavy themes but fails due to the immature characters. There is a lot of exposition to keep the plot moving, which is simply bad writing. Show don’t tell!
There are plenty of students who can ace these exams but then utterly fail at getting things done at companies because they lack problem solving experience, a toleration for ambiguity or any number of interpersonal skills needed to complete complex projects. Until AI can just deal with other AI and not messy humans, there will be job security.
Yes but AI won't have to deal with messy humans. Once companies see how quickly this ultra cheap AI can get things done, a lot of companies would restructure things to ensure the AI has a superhighway to whatever it needs. That sounds like an easy competitive advantage for any company. Messy politics exist within companies because there are so many people and so many orgs. If one cheap AI can do so much concurrently, structures optimal to the AI will be formed focused around the AI needs.
who checks this output ? who troubleshoot when prod is down? what about regulations? which company is the first one to have a huge data leak and blame it on AI? which legislator bans use of AI unless there are human engineers?
I’ve never seen any one company be successful at streamlining their projects.
I am worried about AI but I doubt this will be happen as you’re saying it.
Code is reviewed by one more person anyways right now in most continues. So it continues same way.
> who troubleshoot when prod is down
A human engineer for now. The amount of time when prod is down should be low enough for this to not be a huge factor.
> what about regulations
the AI will do a better job of memorizing and understanding those
> which legislator bans use of AI unless there are human engineers?
what does this even mean. Is it ok to have one AI and 5 engineers where previously 50 were needed? Since nobody is going to have a company with 0 human engineers and only AI.
> I am worried about AI but I doubt this will be happen as you’re saying it.
I also doubt it happens exactly as I am saying it, but I think the possibilities are non zero.
This is produced by same crew as the Half-Life doc. SecretTape who produced HL doc is the for-hire arm of NoClip.