Probably actually. I don't know anything about taxis but AFAIK its harder to get hired as a taxi driver so I would expect a little more training than Uber. Not a lot, but something

I didn't know people read him regularly. All i know about him is he made markdown and then cried when people tried to standardize it because it was underspecified.

Tbf, it's a little weird now with rolling restarts. I wouldn't call it downtime if there's a seamless transition to a new pod.

Maybe that's not what you're referring to, but do i mess that simple uptime metric... Finding out your server has been trucking along for 5 years without a single reboot.

I hope it remains this way then.

I am finding it still takes awhile to get my apps to a happy place with AI. Not because the AI is bad but because i have to sit with it for awhile. Figure out what's working, what isn't, what's missing, what turned out to be kind of useless and in the way.

As a different article said, we still need taste.

Yeah, but you're missing a gut intuition if something is off.

I wrote a fancy polygon decomposition algorithm in university (pre-AI) which my professor didn't seem very impressed by because it was missing some sort of mathematical rigor. Yet everything I threw at it worked! Even he couldn't find a counter example.

It took a while for me to find some failing cases but it turned out they did exist.

But hey, maybe all I was missing is an AI-written lean proof.

Are you defending doing boring work?

I personally never minded doing migrations. I guess I don't really have to anymore though. Weird.

The problem is that in many companies doing migrations would be the only job, thus now there is none.

Not from what I've seen. The desirable neighborhoods are 500-600k. Suburbs outside major city

Desirable neighborhoods are by definition expensive. The trick is to find a neighborhood you like where your home can just be a home and not a top-heavy investment.

Acknowledging this isn’t always easy or possible, but just pointing out that this is a self reinforcing problem.

> The trick is to find a neighborhood you like where your home can just be a home and not a top-heavy investment

I meant desirable for me to live there, not as an investment. Who wants to buy a home in place they don't want to live?

Assuming you are not married.

You didn't read what I said.

I mentioned acres of land. You normally don't have multiple acres of land in the suburbs.

Well then you didn't read parent's comment

> is it possible to buy a reasonably nice home located in a reasonably nice amerikkkan city… for $300k in 2026?

Who wants acreage? We want homes.

> is it possible to buy a reasonably nice home located in a reasonably nice amerikkkan city… for $300k in 2026?

What does "city" mean to you? For some, it's 500 people, or 5,000. For some, it's 5 million. Define that first. The US is a big place, and I know people that don't live within 50 miles of another human.

Otherwise:

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/424-Olive-St-Kansas-City-...

4 bed, 3 bath, 1,580 sq ft, beautiful! $342,500, built in 1900.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/3508-N-College-Ave-Kansas...

4 bed, 4 bath, 2,295 sq ft, $365,000, built in 2022.

That’s 350, which you can’t buy for 300..

If the extra $200/month means you can’t afford it, you probably shouldn’t be buying a house…

Yeah that sounds cruel and messed up, because it is. I don’t like how expensive real estate is and I wish we could have another 2008 without a bailout. But the point stands. If you hafta pick between eating and paying your mortgage, you made a bad financial decision. Blame whoever you want, I am of the opinion that people still have agency and are responsible for their decisions, as unpopular as that seems to be these days.

I don’t know about the US, but in my country the loan for mortgage is tied to your income.

So you could afford 200/month more, but they won’t lend it to you if your max mortgage is 300 and not 350.

These are midrange. Most of the homes in those areas are around $225k.

You'd be surprised how much house and land you can get for that price.

For complex projects with lots of internal tools and strict requirements, I'm finding a fairly lengthy system prompt is quite worth it.

Start short or empty and watch where it makes mistakes then just keep tuning it so they're less frequent. That works for me.

In the US, permanent residents technically have to keep their green card on them at all times.

I signed up for AWS (SES) recently for the first time and find their whole thing confusing as heck too. Signed into the wrong region and they pretend they don't even know who I am.