Youtube hearted comments of John Smith (@JohnSmith-op7ls).

  1. The worst is the “Team/Tech Lead” role, which is nothing more than a cost cutting role. Forget what it’s supposed to be, in practice at most places, it’s a senior dev, mixed with software architect, team management, and project management duties. Every time I’ve seen it, you’re expected to do a full week of coding each week, have meetings that should be done by a full time manager (1 on 1s, performance reviews, higher level manager/director meetings, project manager meetings) on top of your team meetings, doing software architecture research and decisions, even dev ops depending on just how deep they’re trying to cut costs. You end up just being a dev who takes on the work of PMs and directors so that the company can get by with fewer PMs and directors. They can have a PM handling 5-6 projects, doing little more than gathering status reports and passing them up the chain, while the team/tech lead becomes the actual PM. Oh and it’s usually like a 10-15% pay increase for like 25-30% more work and stress.
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  2. Stop with the AI slop
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  3. There’s far too many devs now. It’s not just comparing the economy to 2008, you have to take into account the flood of mediocre devs since then who spent lots of time memorizing how to do meaningless code challenges and making lots of rehashes of existing libraries to stuff their GitHub profile. You’re competing with people who have created a persona aimed at getting hired, not a skill set aimed at being productive. Companies are lazy and unable to find managers who know how to tell the difference so they take the easy route and assume some online tests will weed out the best candidates for them. Go do gov work. Less pay but immensely better job security and less demand and stress. The whole Leetcode thing is Xbox Live achievements for coding. Just means you’ve wasted tons of time building up worthless badges, points, and ranks. Maybe not totally worthless if it gets you a job but when that job expects you to get things done or get fired as most do, then what did memorizing a bunch of algos you’ll never use at work do for you.
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  4. I noticed YT randomly suggests a lot of woodworking videos shortly after I watch a lot of programming videos. Even if I don’t watch any of the woodworking ones, it keeps recommending them. Then if I go on a binge of videos not related to programming, the woodworking recommendations go away. So is YT turning devs into wood workers or are devs into woodworking budging the recommendation algo
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