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AI and the Job Market QnA

Question 1: Will AI take all the jobs?

Answer:

Not really; the capabilities aren't there yet to replace jobs.

The first thing is the brain. The most advanced AI is Gemini 3 Pro, and you can try it for free/unlimited on Google's AI Studio. It's impressive, but nowhere near human cognitive levels.

Second is the hardware. The latest humanoid robots are flimsy and slow, and can only be teleoperated. We are still a hundred years away from full agency.

The final nail in the coffin is consciousness. Without this, AI systems will lack agency and generalizability.

The market will shift, but full replacement is still very far away, if not impossible.

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Question 2: How do you survive in this market? What are your suggestions, supposing you are getting started as a junior dev?

Answer:

You definitely need at least a college degree in a STEM field. Then, just grind YouTube tutorials, build stuff that you'll actually use (how about a to-do app that supports markdown WYSIWYG and embedded tables with Excel-like functions?), apply for internships, make connections, and ask them to refer you.

It's the same as before, just harder.

Mass layoffs mean much more competition, and there's no way around that unless you have someone who can refer your resume.

And when an opportunity comes, you need to be able to capitalize on it.

20 hours ago | [YT] | 0

cariyaputta

Why are these comments so true? They say Indian colleagues are the worst, but I'd like to disagree, I've seen worse. I have the worst time working with Vietnamese/Japanese/Korean clients and teachers. It’s packed full of nepo babies and narcissistic dickheads with delusions of grandeur and savior complexes. It's insane.


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"Most owners of large businesses in VN have never been exposed to modern management techniques. Many of them got to their current position thanks to nepotism, family connections, or bribes. They don’t know what it’s like to work one’s way up from the trenches. Their educational level is generally poor and they don’t know what they don’t know." - u/phil161


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"Many Vietnamese in upper management of big companies got there because of connections. They have zero experience and are uneducated. On top of that, most of them are egotistical because outside of work they live a middle upper or upperclass life that look down on the working class. AND on top of that there is also a saving face culture that hinders them from admitting they’re wrong." - u/Lost_Purpose_1899


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"Almost 100% of rich Vietnamese wealth is due to real estate booms ( which requires little skills or innovation but more of luck, nepotism, insider information and bribery).

But they don't have the self reflection to recognize their incompetence or lack of knowledge. Hence they think their wealth is self-earned.

Combine that with lack of civic education and hyper capitalism mindset." - u/lonesonedota


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"Vietnam working culture is top down hierarchy where the boss is alway right and things don't get implemented unless it is his/her idea or decision even if they don't know jack. It's all about saving face. If the boss get the credit or is shown come up with the idea or solution, then things will get implemented. That's why there's not a lot of innovation in Vietnam, very similar to the Japanese culture. Lots of talk and brown nosing and not much get done." - u/Thangtn3


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"What I love most about workplaces in Vietnam is that they refuse to help newbies. They preach on and on about teamwork but will occasionally send a glare toward you, talk shit behind your back and always pretend to not know anything when you ask even a tiny question related to work.

I’m just glad not being stuck there for the time being." - u/6Immarighthere9


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"I've participated in conferences where the VN government hired and flew in foreign experts at great expense to provide advice and plans for development, approached to managing tourism, and ecological conservation, then ignored and/or belittled them at them the conferences.

Often having a foreigner involved is not actually meant to really involve or pay attention to them, it's a status statement to other Vietnamese agencies and businesses so they can say, "We had foreigners, you didn't, therefore we are better than you." - u/7LeagueBoots

2 days ago | [YT] | 0

cariyaputta

It's a lifestyle disease. A man should never let his body fat goes above 17%. Here's one solution:

- Daily baseline: sleep for 6.5-9.5 hrs, walking 7K steps while listening to Dhamma talks, 5 min stretching, and at least 20 min breath meditation; miband 10 for tracking

- Eating 2MAD 16:8 or OMAD; homecooked veggies, chicken breast or parrotfish, and fruits; reduce salt, sugar, and caffeine intake; zero recreational alcohol, nicotine, drugs.

- Strength training on Mon and Thu for 3 sets each at near failure: pull ups, hanging knee raises, push ups, hollow hold, paused squats.

- Cardio training on Tue and Fri with good forms and 10 sets of 90s work and 60s rest: total 250 jump rope reps and 50 sprawl jump reps; +50/+10 each week, cap at 500/100

- Active rest on Sat: add 5K steps 5kg rucking; +1K/+1kg each quarter, cap at 13K/13kg

- Keep five precepts everyday, and eight precepts on major lunar phases; studying 2 suttas a day

- Practice speedcubing/blindsolving, enjoying Steam backlog, lax days on Wed and Sun, hang out with friends or family once a week

4 days ago | [YT] | 0

cariyaputta

It’s the same for communists and socialists. Vanguard of the 'people'? Dictatorship of the 'proletariat'? My arse. Unless, of course, their definition of 'people' and 'proletariat' is actually just a group of feudal lords hoarding vast amounts of land and wealth (acquired through daylight robbery and coercion) who use a communist aesthetic to justify extracting resources and enslaving the masses. It's just Red Fascism or State Capitalism blended with forced idol worship. It is comical that these anti-revolutionary gangs have the nerve to call anarchists 'reactionaries.'

5 days ago | [YT] | 0

cariyaputta

Why Does Nobody Use Linux?

- Windows exclusively professional software
- Shitty peripheral/driver support (e.g. Nvidia drivers always lacking behind Windows, bricked fingerprint reader)
- Kernel level anticheats (Fortnite, Valorant, League of Legends/Teamfight Tactics, etc.)
- Subpar gaming performance for non Linux-native titles
- Poor support for high performance Android emulation (e.g. BlueStacks)
- Poor GPU intuitive tooling support (e.g. Afterburner for undervolting/overclocking/fan curves/monitoring/OSD)

1 week ago (edited) | [YT] | 0

cariyaputta

AI is just a tool. Blaming it for cheating is a total cop-out. That's 100% on the teachers. If they can't come up with AI-proof assignments, maybe they aren't cut out for the job. Then again, why are people wasting a ton of time and money just to regurgitate outdated and often wrong information anyway? The whole education system is a joke.

1 week ago | [YT] | 0

cariyaputta

It's no coincident that all of the biggest grifts in the world revolve around the word "love", e.g. Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, New Age, Self-Help, Cults, Nationalism, etc. It's so easy to exploit the vulnerability of people.

1 week ago | [YT] | 0

cariyaputta

If you're buying silver, pure bullion is the best. The current fiasco happening with 90% silver is a telltale sign of why. The defense industry requires pure silver for its warheads and electronics. Refining lower-purity silver takes more acid, and there’s an acid shortage. As a result, wholesalers are refusing to buy more junk silver because the refineries no longer have the capacity to process it.

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 0

cariyaputta

Power (over others) always corrupts. It will always seek perpetuation and expansion, and maintaining the asymmetry of power and information, through manipulation and coercion. There are no checks and bounds that can prevent this. The only solution is to permanently remove the mechanisms that allow hierarchical power structures to concentrate.

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 0

cariyaputta

13 tools for daily meditation, aim at Stream Entry

- 9 reflections (mn 61)
- 7 ways of avoiding defilements (mn 2)
- 6 recollections (an 6.10)
- 5 contemplations (an 5.57)
- 4 right effort (an 4.14)
- 5 elements not self (mn 140)
- 5 elements non reactivity (mn 62)
- 4 divine abidings (mn 21)
- perception of ugliness (mn 10)
- 6 sets of 6 not self (mn 148)
- 5 aggregates not self (sn 22.122)
- 9 stages of thoughts (an 9.14)
- breath meditation (mn 118)

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