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[willendure]

I am the same, an in person meeting is so much better. Before all these f'ing Teams calls, it was a rare thing indeed that I would get an interview and not get offered the job - due to my stunning personality obviously. Somehow video calls just get in the way of providing an opportunity to make a real...

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BTW - Some of these reasonably well paid train AI to code jobs on LI are a scam. Apparently the way it works is they invite you to an interview, for which you must accept Ts&Cs, waiving the right to pursue them as part of any class action lawsuit being one of them - a waiver you can opt out of by...

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Yes, quite a mix of requirements. Some are for coding with AI ranging from light to heavy use of it. Some are for building out new AI systems, not even LLM based, but machine learning other architectures. And some are for building out platforms with AI agents involved, through various tools and frameworks....

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Curiosity got the best of me, and I signed up anyway just to see it.

Mostly I was curious if the job ads overlapped with what I see from other sources, such as jobserve, and it did at least look like the feed was not overlapping. So I don't know where these feeds come from...
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Thats why you give it what it needs to know. Want to know how to program a MikroTik router ? Give it the docs, then ask it....

[willendure]

Switching from Outside to Inside but staying in the same gig is dodgy. Because HMRC could look at it and say in that case, you were obviously inside all along.

Been in that position once, and made the correct move to turn down the new inside contract and move on. (They were also stingy...

[willendure]

Well done if you are in!

I made my AI investment into Cerebras pre-IPO. But I would have been better just buying AMD and would have been in a liquid public stock too. Which is a good lesson to learn.

I think selling out 50% is probably a smart move if you've had a good run...

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Probably not even as fast as a phone from today!

[willendure]

I have no intention of recovering the £1800 - actually more like £450 because I've only been on it for a few months, and will scale back to a lower tier soon anyway. Its money that I wanted to spend to develop this new compiler because its a project I believe in and am personally invested in.
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[willendure]

Feel like I am seeing a lot more AI roles, or most roles at least mentioning AI in conjunction with other things, dev + AI, architect + AI, security + AI.

[willendure]

"Reason for the maxed out subscription is that I am working on a new optimizing compiler infrastructure and it has been very very useful - like 3x to 5x productivity easily."...

[willendure]

Been on Claude Code Max 20X plan at £150/month for the last few months. I do plan to scale back to the 5X plan at £75/month in the near future, or even take a break altogether and see what alternatives there are. Reason for the maxed out subscription is that I am working on a new optimizing compiler...

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A) Its mostly in the US

B) Are they really going to become contractors ?

Hopefully some of them will be quite wealthy and start new businesses. Its all good....

[willendure]

I voted for less secure than permanent, but I have no real idea as I have never had a permanent job. Went straight into contracting in 2000 in the days when they were pulling people of the street if they so much as uttered the word "Java". I imagine being a permie is more secure, but perhaps...

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Kitchen sink language, and the compiler is sooo slloooow.

Mondern Java has gotten a lot better. Virtual thread (coroutines) and record value types particularly make it a lot nicer to work with....

[willendure]

Country went broke. Run by clowns. Used to rule the world and now the laughing stock....