hm, this board has some Nostr users analysis, I suspect they checked the most famous users at the time https://nostr-users.n0us.top
This is a concise giveaway from an office conversation (some parts were removed, along with tech slang):
...you should start using AI, it will increase your productivity 3x, maybe 10x
Hmm, sounds cool. But will you increase my compensation 10x, are you comfortable with that?
I won't. Why should I?
Because it's fair, no?
Who said life is fair?
Hm, but if we're OK with being unfair, why not just say I use AI but work as in the previous year?
Well, I'll check and see.
How exactly?
All coworkers are using AI, their productivity increased 10x and I will just compare your output with theirs.
Hmm, have they asked for a 10x raise?
No, why should they? OK, I'll open the life principle to you a bit. I could say they are stupid but their education says otherwise, they're actually afraid to ask for a 10x raise, and possibly thought out some arguments as a foundation not to ask. I don't really care, you see, the matter of negotiation is not about arguments - it's about if you have the balls or not - intelligence is only support, not firepower. They just don't have the balls, and I have, because of that I'm the boss, not you. It's like in nature, you know, alpha/beta males. I'm alpha, I win negotiations, I suppress beta, I climb the evolution ladder so to speak. You're beta - you comply, thinking out arguments to not argue. I truly believe that eventually you'll start using AI like others and think out some arguments not to ask for a comp raise... Or, I just fire you - no 2 alphas in the same flock, you know. )
Oh.
Yes, so think out something to soothe yourself and start using AI already. Next week all your deadlines will be shorter, let's start with 2x shorter, let's see what comes out next.
Sounds harsh.
Life is harsh.
...
Engineers are worth 10x more than last year thanks to AI. But engineers give it away for free (like they've always done for millennia with each tech breakthrough) - they're the ones who keep devaluing themselves, while HR just helps them stay psychologically okay with being miserable.
Think about it - if you made $60,000 in 2024, you're now producing 3-10x more value with AI in 2025, like $180,000-$600,000. But you're just settling for the same pay or maybe pushing for a tiny 10% raise. You're giving away all that extra value for free, just like previous generations did. And once you give that up, they won't give it back - it's now or never.
I have a bot that looks through job boards every day, trying to find low-intensity jobs (ones that are sustainable and good for wellbeing and health - with no stress, meetings, micromanagement, deadlines, and so on). The bot uses AI to analyze descriptions according to several criteria. Guess, how many healthy jobs it finds? It's always like this:
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Job Processing Statistics:
Total jobs seen: 59
Skipped (already processed): 16
Newly processed: 31
Low intensity jobs found: 0
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Looks like they want you to suffer for their money.
Work is not just physical effort; it's trading your soul because you are obliged to focus on a single task for a prolonged period of time, realizing that you could be doing millions of other things but forcing yourself not to.
Opinionated APIs and frameworks don't make sense anymore. I use AI until it converges on a working implementation. I help it solve hard problems, but I don't read your docs or foundation for your approach - I don't have time for that.
The world's severe problems are not from a shortage of information, nor a restricted access to it. The root is the intrinsic inability of large masses of people to learn and memorize beyond a certain limit. Upon reaching this limit, their subconscious will resist in random outbursts or utter avoidance - ignorance. Watch the movie 'Upgrade' with Marshall-Green - it figuratively shows the limit there, but in truth, it's far lower than in the movie - at the level of history books from initial classes of middle school or even below. The smart have already known that for millennia and just abuse it constantly. It's incurable with the current human DNA.
Me: so the system force humans to work even harder while they earn less, isn't that detrimental to humanity wellbeing and health in particular?
AI: … The core issue you've identified is that market dynamics don't naturally optimize for human wellbeing - they optimize for economic output. Creating systems that balance productivity with human flourishing requires deliberate policy choices and cultural shifts. The current trajectory does seem unsustainable from a human health and wellbeing perspective.
Me: Unsustainable it's something like (for example) you try to "resurrect" a burned-out guy but it's a no-go, they won't make it for long even after a helpful restart?
AI: Yes, that's a very apt analogy. Once someone hits severe burnout, it's not like a simple battery that can be recharged. It's more like:
The "burnout" is actually permanent damage to:
- Mental resilience
- Physical health (stress-related conditions)
- Neural pathways (cognitive function)
- Professional confidence
- Social connections
- Life outlook/motivation
People bragging about working their asses off to please the boss are a primary cause of others' suffering, including overwork, the rat race to the ground, ridiculous compensation, miserable old age, and work-related chronic illness and cancer. If you see one of them, now you know how we got to this hell - through the ages, they made it possible.
Corporate bullshit, cheating, and succumbing to government demands will eventually lead to all systems being decentralized. It doesn't matter if all corporations cheat or not; you need only one to break trust in the others.
Frankly, I don't respect the middle class in any country. They're constantly whining about the growing middle-upper class disparity. But how long have you protested directly on the streets? For a month? maybe a week?.. a day? An hour?.. You haven't protested at all, never! That brings no respect, no sympathy, only disdain from me.
Slaves to the bone, they will stay slaves.
How about initiating impeachment based on clearly failed key promises? For example, he promised to end the war within one day but failed - a week has passed and he's still joking around. Impeachment, now!
This is only a documented part, and how many ops were conducted without a written order
Found this vacancy, looks like guys actually understand how proper software engineering works:
**Senior JavaScript Engineer - Remote**
Join our laid-back team building innovative web applications. We believe great code comes from a relaxed mind, not strict deadlines.
**What you'll do:**
- Shape and build new features at your own sustainable pace
- Collaborate with team members when it fits your flow
- Choose your tools and approaches within our tech stack
**You have:**
- Strong JavaScript/TypeScript experience
- Track record of self-directed work
- Ability to manage your own priorities
**We offer:**
- Fully remote
- Flexible hours
- No micromanagement
- Competitive salary
- Unlimited PTO you'll actually take
Tech stack: React, Node.js, PostgreSQL
Apply if you thrive in autonomous environments and want to do your best work without artificial pressure.
I've been coding for several years, and I definitely hate the word 'sprint'. You sprint for a week or two, then you plan for a day, and then you sprint again for another week, never ending. It's like coders shouldn't rest - they should sprint until they run themselves into the ground. Merciless. Working at corporations, I feel like the wording wasn't chosen arbitrarily; they meant it.
Coding with AI assistance is like playing a game with quicksave - you forget to save, and suddenly everything gets messed up beyond recovery.
With AI rewriting is almost zero-cost, but messing around and finding out how docs differ from implementation with an unknown timeframe is criminally inefficient.
tired of figuring out the blackbox of Cloudflare D1 /import endpoint (the doc is not full or outdated), just rewrote everything with ‘wrangler execute’ command line and forked a subprocess, to hell with perfectionism.
Spot checking AI on writing a Nostr-based app:
Python: no errors reported but doesn't work (the Nostr client is not updated actively for half a year maybe)
Go: a protocol error, AI fixed it by itself (I didn't even figure it out). [winner]
Javascript: runtime errors (I left it shortly, ask why)
Rust: dozens of compile errors, multiple iteration with AI showed it won't make it without my careful attention, took a couple of hours, but it works