I can't wait for SO to finally give up and die.

It was cool 15 years ago, but they actively worked to just make everything worse.

The original purpose was already long broken due to questions being closed as duplicate.

This made sure that all questions and answers kept getting more and more outdated, because all newer questions on the same topic got closed.

This.

In 2010 Stackoverflow was amazing. Tons of information, everything was up-to-date, great.

And then they close every new question on a similar topic as duplicate, ensuring that if you look up e.g. a Java question you can be sure it's about Java 7. Because we all know I everyone in 2025 is using Java 7.

And of course, neither the questions nor the answers require version tagging and thus hardly any of them have anything like that.

And now they want to take this pool of outdated garbage and feed it into a garbage processing unit AI to make it somehow cooler.

Good luck with that.

You're not wrong, and I feel like it was a developing problem even before AI - everybody wanted someone with experience, even if the technology was brand new.

True. It was a long-standing problem that entry-level jobs were mostly found in dodgy startups.

Tbh, I think the biggest issue right now isn't even AI, but the economy. In the 2010s we had pretty much no intrest rate at all while having a pretty decent economy, at least for IT. The 2008 financial crisis hardly mattered for IT, and Covid was a massive boost for IT. There was nothing else to really spend money on.

IT always has more projects than manpower, so with enough money to spend, they just hired everyone.

But the sanctions against Russia in response to their invasion of Ukraine really hit the economy and rising intrest rates to combat inflation meant that suddenly nobody wanted to invest anymore.

With no investments, startups dried up and large corporations also want to downsize. It's no coincidence that return-to-work mandates only started after the invasion and not in the two years prior of that where lockdowns were already revoked. Work from home worked totally fine for two years after covid lockdowns, and companies even praised how well it worked.

Same with AI. While it can improve productivity in some edge cases, I think it's mostly a scapegoat to make mass-fireings sound like a great thing to investors.

That said, even if you and I will be fine, it's still bad for the industry. And even if we weren't the ones pulling up the ladder behind us, I'd still like to find a way to start throwing ropes back down for the newbies...

You are totally right with that, and any chance I get I will continue to push for hiring juniors.

But I am also over corporate tears. For decades they have been crying over a lack of skilled workers in the IT and pushing for more and more people to join IT, so that they can dump wages, and as soon as the economy is bad, they instantly u-turn and dump employees.

If corporations want to be short-sighted and make people suffer for it, they won't get compassion from me when it fails.

Edit: Remember, we are not the ones pulling the ladder up.

In Österreich sind wir weiter als ihr. Wir haben seit 25 Jahren die FPÖ immer wieder in Regierungspositionen. Das schadet denen nur sehr bedingt. Die haben immer noch die letzte Wahl gewonnen.

Leider wahrscheinlich gar nicht. Die Nazis haben selbst bis tief in den 2. Weltkrieg hohe Zustimmung gehabt und selbst nach dem 2. Weltkrieg war die Zustimmung inoffiziell noch da, und nur deswegen nicht mehr offen gelebt weil es illegal war.

Wir sind alle mit der harten Anti-Nazi-Position in der Schule aufgewachsen. Hat trotzdem nichts geholfen.

Insbesondere jetzt, wo der zweite Weltkrieg zu einer fernen Erinnerung geworden ist und von den Zeitzeugen kaum noch wer lebt, kommt's halt wieder zurück.

Ich weiß echt nicht was man machen kann. Ostdeutschland wieder abspalten und ihnen erlauben ihr eigenes kleines Nazireich zu machen oder so.

And that's the actual definition of a weed: If you don't want it there, it's a weed. If you do, it's not.

None that you can make with ChatGPT in an afternoon, no.

• Install adb on your PC
• Enable developer options on your phone
• Enable USB Debugging inside the developer options
• Connect the phone to the PC using USB
• Open a console window of your choice
• Execute adb devices and allow USB debugging for this PC on your phone
• Execute adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 com.google.android.apps.gemini
• Done

You can do that with any app you like, they can all be disabled that way. Beware though: if you disable critical system components (like e.g. your last launcher, keyboard or systemui) you might not have a great time using your phone afterwards.

That's happening right now. I have a few friends who are looking for entry-level jobs and they find none.

It really sucks.

That said, the future lack of developers is a corporate problem, not a problem for developers. For us it just means that we'll earn a lot more in a few years.

Greenfielding webapps is the easiest, most basic kind of project around. that's something you task a junior with and expect that they do it with no errors. And after that you instantly drop support, because webapps are shovelware.

When going 50km/h the average distance needed to come to a comfortable stop including taking a whole second to figure out what's happening and react is 40 meters.

For an emergency stop (still taking the 1 second reaction time) it's 28 meters.

So if you can't stop with 50 meters you are absolutely unfit to get behind the wheel.

Completely "tech illiterate" broser-only users are fine. It gets difficult once they happen to actually want to do something.

I have an older relative in that boat, and she was doing fine until she wanted to install some VPN to access foreign Netflix libraries. That was more difficult. Especially because she already paid for the service and that service didn't support her distro, thus there was no guide on how to use it.

Many immigrants think they can get on the good side of the xenophobes by becoming the "good" immigrants while putting the "bad" immigrants down.

The problem with that tactic is that xenophobes and especially xenophobic laws don't distinguish between "good" or "bad".

If immigrants badmouth other immigrants, the only thing that xenophobes take from that is "even the immigrants think immigrants are bad".

You see a lot of that happening in the USA, where frequently family members of MAGA voters are taken by ICE, because they aren't going after the "bad" immigrants, but after immigrants, period. Even if their family voted for the people who are now taking them.

And that's the real take-away. When it comes to lawmaking, you can either be for immigrants or against them. There's no nuance. Because lawmakers don't put any in.

Being white certainly helps, but they are also detaining white people now:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jasmine-mooney-canadian-detained-ice-us-mexico/

Don't smoke dandelions.

My definition: aggressive spread and resilience to removal.

That fits to a lot of useful plants too. Strawberries, Brambles, Mint, just to name a few.

"Unser Jud' ist eh gut."

That's a sentence that was often used in Nazi Germany/Nazi Austria. It means "Our Jew is good anyway, [but the others are evil]". It basically means that you keep believing the propaganda, even if the people you know don't fit to the propaganda at all.

Nowadays this sentence is used to satirize the statement you posted.

It's a bit long but it does check out.

I used to pirate a lot when I was younger and didn't have the money.

Now Epic Games and Amazon Games take care that I never have to buy games any more because they give them away for free. I only buy games if there's a specific one I really want to play.

For the same reason I don't need to pirate any more either, it's just not worth the risk of catching malware or something, and there's more than enough free games around.

But what I wanted to say is the alternative to piracy is playing free games, not paying for a game.

Again, it's about shrinking chips, not shrinking phones. With smaller chips there is more space for other things like slightly larger batteries. Phone size is not dictated by chip size.