100%. To me the real question is whether all the bother getting the agents to not waste time nets out to real gains, or perceived gains (while possibly even losing efficiency).
It's not at all clear to me which is true given the level of hype and antipathy out there. I'm just going to watch and wait, and experiment cautiously, till it's more clearcut.
If you make 10k/mo -- which is not that much!, $500 is 5% of revenue. All else held equal, if that helps you go 20% faster, it's an absolute no brainer.
The question is.. does it actually help you do that, or do you go 0% faster? Or 5% slower?
This is the sort of statement that immediately tells me this forum is disconnected from the real world. ~80% of full time workers in the US make less than $10k a month before tax.
And yet, the average salary of an IT worker in the US is somewhere between 104 and 110k. Since we're discussing coders here, and IT workers tend to be at the lower end of that, maybe there is some context you didn't consider?
>And yet, the average salary of an IT worker in the US is somewhere between 104 and 110k.
After tax that's like 8% of your take home pay. I don't know why it's unreasonable to scoff at having to pay that much to get the most out of these tools.
>maybe there is some context you didn't consider?
The context is that the average poster on HN has no idea how hard the real world is as they work really high paying jobs. To make a statement that "$10k a month is not a lot" makes you sound out of touch.
as a further note, people continue to post to this thread because they want to. Maybe it's worth taking a hint and letting things happen instead of obsessively needing to control them, hm?
Expert backend developer primarily focused on data engineering, mission critical/low latency/highly available systems, and AWS (certs: https://www.credly.com/users/jon-north.ad78f0c8). Happy to deal with greenfield or legacy or any mix of the two. I learn new things extremely quickly.
I prefer long term contract work, though I’ll help you with smaller things as well. W2 employment is a possibility if the fit is right. Whatever you’re doing with AI is also fine by me, and I’ll lead/adapt as appropriate.
SEEKING WORK - Contract, Remote, USA, backend engineer
I am a backend expert, having built and maintained mission critical, low latency and highly available systems for many companies over the last 10 years, in addition to over 20 total years of software development experience. AWS preferred but not required (I hold a variety of certs, available here: https://www.credly.com/users/jon-north.ad78f0c8)
You will like working with me because I:
* hold your goals as my priorities
* communicate verbosely yet synthesize well
* my rates are reasonable in exchange for the value I deliver
* I guarantee I will get the job done
Concrete examples:
* built the primary streaming data architecture for realtime game player tracking information (all games, 50ms SLA) and game stats for one of the top 3 US sports leagues (can’t name drop!) using Redpanda/Kafka on Azure+Terraform, and implemented its developer portal using Gravitee to provide first class streaming API support and monetization. Also built, deployed and maintained their ask-a-question-get-a-true-answer AI bot to expose 20+ years of stats to natural language fan questions! (this was the third of currently four times I’ve built similar architectures for different companies)
* Implemented a vector DB for one of the leading AI image hallucination platforms (millions of users) to provide an image similarity service.
* replatformed dozens of complex quant jobs to AWS Lambda for a startup hedge fund (~$1B AUM), vastly improving QoS and maintenance cost. Line 1 to platform-in-prod time 3 months, including refactoring for fit. This was mission critical cannot-fail stuff and required extensive proof of correctness.
* built a framework to collapse dozens of singleton ETL programs into one config-driven, simple C# application performing the same functionality at ~80% reduction in maintenance cost year over year.
Expert backend developer primarily focused on data engineering, mission critical/low latency/highly available systems, and AWS (certs: https://www.credly.com/users/jon-north.ad78f0c8). Happy to deal with greenfield or legacy or any mix of the two.
I prefer long term contract work, though I’ll help you with smaller things as well. Available for W2 employment only in exceptional cases – if you need a CTO, VP of Eng, or head of infrastructure to help you scale, let’s talk.
There are a set of careers that simply come with this kind of burden as part of the deal. Sales, freelancing, and in general owning your own business is at the core of those, because you also receive all the profit from your labor, rather than passing the burden to someone who agrees to shoulder it for you (taking a portion of your efforts in exchange).
By striking out on your own, you take on the moral and emotional weight of figuring out how to get it done anyway, despite an often cruel and uncaring world.
The only answer is inner strength. Find it, or find another line of work. Sorry to have to put it so starkly, but that's the truth.
I'm glad this was reposted, and would love it to be kept up. This thread has brought me a lot of clients over the years, some of whom I'm now happy to consider friends.
I do sometimes crosspost to seeking work/who's hiring, and sometimes not, depending on needs and market. They're for different things.
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