Gergely Orosz's annual deep dive into who's hiring, who's not, and how AI-engineering roles are reshaping the software job market across big tech and startups.
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Get Linkwise — free on iPhoneHackers are makers, like painters or architects or writers.
Before 'developer' was a job title, makers called themselves hackers. A refusal to separate thinking from doing. The 'engineer' replacement lost something.
Paul GrahamA compact essay on why the relationship between effort and reward in many creative and technical fields is not linear but superlinear — and what that implies for how you allocate your time.
All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky.
Every layer we stack between ourselves and the metal eventually breaks. The fix isn't a better abstraction—it's knowing what's underneath when it does.