Ai depression—— I feel increasingly depressed and hopeless about potentially applying for junior dev jobs - I feel like why? What’s the point when GPT can do the low level junior stuff in place of me? I would really appreciate some words of motivation…. Is it still worth it?

AFK often during work hours because I have IBS. Who else?

I go on codementor sometimes even when I could probably figure out a problem by myself because I enjoy the company of a like mind and have no one else to discuss programming with .

YouTube just deleted my favorites playlist for supposed hate speech. My playlist had like 4k vids in it (none of them uploaded by me) and most of them were just stupid music videos or whatever, nothing even comes to mind that would qualify as hate speech, so because of this alleged needle in a 4k video haystack my playlist got deleted, YouTube did not even show any evidence of the supposed hate speech content within, my appeal was denied instantly. This is why I hate big tech- it is tyrannical and bullshit. It serves as an extra government nanny rather than appealing to its user base. This is because once a social platform grows so large that it has the monopoly on users, it no longer has to appeal to its users, it can then just focus on politics or other agendas. They can do this with confidence that they will not lose their users because they know that the modern internet narcissist will flock to any app that gives them the biggest audience, and since they have the monopoly on users they can rest assured the common narcissist will flock to their app (no matter how shitty or tyrannical) because they’ll get the most exposure there. This is the pattern every big social media platform falls into. At one point YouTube was cool….

How do I overcome nihilism

Work from home people: what’s the naughtiest thing you do to take advantage of working from home???

When you do all the heavy lifting at the order of some airhead idiot with their cushy “manager” job that they had to blow someone for… yeah feels great

Have you ever had a colleague undermine you or do something to get ahead of you on the ladder or receive the recognition over you?
I’ve heard from a few that this field can be brutally competitive and people frequently mow others down in persuit of power and success. Explain a time this has happened to you?

Is the computer our slave or are the computer’a slave?

How did you get your first software job?
Please include educational background.

Before applying to a company how can I tell the company is healthy and won’t tank or lay people off any time soon? Is there like a public metric somewhere I can see to determine this?

How do I know when I’m ready for a junior dev job? Currently I’m very familiar with syntax rules, data structure, I even created my first p2p app and I’m feeling more comfortable with server side programming and handling dependencies.

But I can’t like code blindfolded and I’m very slow and have to think very deeply and concentrate very hard before doing any minor thing.

How do I know??

How much of ur job is spent actually innovating and designing new architecture and how much of it is just copy pasting libraries and preexisting APIs?

I can’t code without dead silence. I cannot concentrate on coding whatsoever unless there is dead silence in my house which leads me to usually coding in the middle of the night so I don’t hear people. Then I lose sleep and I lose my health. Anyone else?

Can anyone recommend any good IT / hacker related films that are not HACKERS or THE MATRIX. Thanks.

Developing pornographic / adult themed apps- would you be willing to do it? If not why, if so why? How does one become a developer for a platform like pornhub?

Who else hates the mental asylum inspired Picasso “art” used by google and as seen in our devrant avatars? I think it’s one of the most hideous art styles there is. Why can’t we be kawaii isometric chibi characters or something.