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- V2ers on Lying Flat: Meta Build, or Move Back to a County Town? Two V2EX threads, side by side: a slogan post about “four nos,” and a concrete case with ~¥2M savings, a kid, and a rural house. The real fight is definition vs constraints.
- When Everyone Uses AI, How Do You Judge a Developer? A V2EX career thread distilled: shared tools do not equal equal skill. Interviews should weight direction, course-correction, architecture, and delivery.
- AI cannot replace lived experience After an AI conference, what stayed was not a demo. It was the part of being human that can't be compressed: showing up, colliding with the world, living it.
- The 35-year-old programmer crisis — and how to get out An eight-year programmer after leaving big tech: the profession is a sinking Titanic and most people are still fighting for first class. And a way off.
- When a 45-year-old paper is flagged as AI An AI detector scored a 1981 paper as machine-written. Humans are now stuck proving they are not a model. This is not science fiction. It is happening.
- AI didn't 10x your output. It 10x'd the work. A Silicon Valley engineer on the real numbers: 93% use AI, throughput rose ~10%, one study found it made people 19% slower. AI fatigue is structural.
- A programmer's survival guide in the AI era AI isn't here to take senior programmers' jobs. The 35-year-old crisis story flips: experience gets more valuable, if you can decide, constrain, and verify.
- Software engineering is splitting into three layers When implementation cost falls toward zero, the bottleneck moves from coding to judgment. The market is splitting into three layers of work, not just of pay.