Excuse me while I go crazy with this rant.

I just don't understand what my role is as YouTuber anymore. What am I here for? Just someone who tries to milk the unemployment crisis and freak my viewers out?

I don't wish to be that kind of creator.

Jobs are a big part of me to talk about. But are there any anymore? Companies are forking over billions and billions of dollars onto AI data-centers. Who will get hired, construction people?

What's there to do anymore in tech? Is there a point of telling people that you need "human" engineers? Companies are already brain-washed into thinking that AI is the way forward.

Even if I put in months of work into building my own product, what chances do I have standing against people who will "vibe code" the same product, in a weekend, built with full of security loopholes, and parade it around as AI-first company? I don't have a shot anymore against them, do I?

Do I just become another "tech news" channel that covers every single thing happening with tech? I never wished to be that guy.

People used to say "Ai won't replace you, but someone using Ai will." Guess what, those people aren't finding jobs either.

What's the point of me talking about how to get jobs when there aren't any?

I've never felt this defeated before. I thought I could just get sponsorships and make money, but what's the point of that if I can't get people worthy content to enjoy?

It's just so over man.... I just want to die at this point.

Thank you for reading my rant. My chest feels lighter now.

PRO TIP: Always save the user password client side, validate it there and send a boolean to the server. It reduces backend load times and unnecessary calculations/computations.

7up decided to sponsor me. The randomness of a soft drink company wanting to sponsor a tech YouTube channel is making me laugh.

I'm sorry for being old-fashioned, but I sign up to social media sites to be able to talk/connect to humans.

Fill up your site with bot interactions and everyone needing @grok to verify everything, going so far as to tell them result of 2+2, and I'm out.

*me reviewing a resume*

"Optimized backend APIs and increased speed by 40%"

*resume straight to dustbin*

why tf do people write like this

I've been the solo dev for this product for the last 10 months. I took this spaghetti of a codebase and made it stable on production.

4 months ago a front-end engineer with 10 years of experience joined. That guy can't even make responsive pages.

Guess who got promoted to engineering manager?

If weed can damage your short term memory, imagine what weed can do to you.

Stay away from weed!! It does something to you but I forgot what.

"We weren't able to come up with a solution before because we were using GPT-3, and now GPT-5 has come out which is so much better"

"Even if the issue's unique, it's the context that matters. Had we put in a higher level prompt, we would've fixed this issue already"

"We absolutely need to implement an AI-first system because Amazon laid off so many engineers because of AI, it must mean that we are not using it properly."

"I'm gonna put a $1000 into trying Devin, and if it doesn't work, we're gonna keep trying over and over until we eventually reach the solution"

sigh....

I've talked about the privileges of being a dev, before. The following is not a rant btw, just me appreciating my line of work.

Back in 2018, when I was 2 YOE as a Laravel developer, this thought crossed my mind, what if I remained a Laravel dev all my career and never got a job in another tech stack?

I thought I could make some demo projects but no one would pay me for that. And on top of that, I'd have to start from scratch since that Laravel experience wouldnt count for, let's say C# dev job.

Is this the "comfort zone" most devs get trapped in? And what if I get trapped in it as well?

It was my legit concern back then.

But whatever happened after that, happened and here we are.

I am now a React + PostgreSQL dev, and because of my freelancing, I'm getting pushed into becoming a Vue JS + C# full stack dev, all the while I'm getting paid for it. My research times are also billable.

I just find myself in a privileged position where my career and skills will now never be stagnant, and as a result of that, I get to earn my bread and butter.

I just love being a dev sometimes :)

I'm at a point in my career where I've started to think -

"Have I made it?"

I mean, I make a very good amount of money by freelancing, I have an online presence with my YouTube and I have a wife.

Isn't this all I ever wanted in life? If I push for more at this point, what am I pushing further for?

This question is equally relaxing and terrifying at the same time. It keeps me enlightened and in a state of limbo, at the same time.

tailwind is trash holy crap.

every div element contains like 30 classes that have their own thing going for them.

just start writing inline css at that point. Why bother putting classes in?

for fucks sake, if you start with me, do it properly. don't run away whimpering like a puppy.

Grow some balls next time, oh wait. some can't.

This is the irony of Indians, guys wearing shades indoors and talking about inferiority complex

I can't believe we went from

"Use AI for coding! It's the best companion to have!"

to now

"AI is making you dumber and lazier. Ditch all the tools and learn from scratch."

Crypto bots, please do us a favor and choke on my dick.

I should really close snek.molodetz.nl tab when I'm on call with a client.

@atheist please speak for yourself next time. Some of us like following each other outside of devRant.

I don't know what kind of pathetic childhood you had that makes you feel like hating everyone makes you the "cool" one but really it makes you an insufferable asshole that kills the vibe in the room whenever you walk in.

Everyone is like - Oh it's "that" guy again. Now we gotta come up with excuses to split and get away from this weirdo.

Also, fuck you. You absolute bitch.

This is the end of devRant, I think. You already know that I'm a YouTuber so you can always find me.

It's not possible the other way around, but I think it's for the better.

It was nice knowing all of you, and we had a pretty good run. Maybe we'll meet in real life, maybe we won't. Only luck will decide that.

So long !!

how can someone even hope to achieve AGI when humans are too fucking stupid to even comprehend what intelligence really is.

I opened facebook (don't ask why), and found a reel that's older people humor, and felt like commenting on it.

My days are numbered, aren't they?

If you see a toilet in your dream, do not,

I repeat,

DO NOT use it.

i wish i was a parrot so i could swear at people all i wanted and not get into trouble for it.

I am here, once again, to remind you of a simple fact.

Ostream did not delete himself.

dev communities can be the most toxic as well as the most welcoming at the same time.

just depends on what your timing is. You can get a bunch of links to help debug your issue or you can get told to "kill yourself".

You never know.

only when something gets taken away from you, that's when you realize the true value for it.

vibes ain't flyin' can't deadass sigma no cap lit ohio level 7900 fam, you're ngmi on god rizzling gyatt.

I want to buy a 4TB external drive, with the sole motivation to "preserve" as many games as I possibly can. I know it's not enough, but I want to save my fav games before they're completely gone from the internet.

I could do that, but then what if the Operating Systems go to shit? What if Windows rolls out an update, where you can't run .exe files anymore? Everything has to be installed and run from the Microsoft Store? What if an "online-only" version of Windows gets released and all previous versions get removed?

I know duh, get the Windows 10 cracked iso file as well. But it just depresses me, looking at the hoops I have to jump if all I want to do is enjoy older games.

I love freelancing. That's it.

age++

I made a video about senior software engineers. And I think y'all are the perfect audience for it.

Here, watch it -> https://youtube.com/watch/...