Med isnt immune to automation or remote work as well (telemedicine)...its surprising a bit. I would be really surprised if there isnt tons of automation 10-20 years from now.
Nurses are pretty well protected though.
Well plumbing has problems as well: cognitive requirements are not especially high so in theory many people can do it if they are trained. Many immigrants to the U.S probably consider it.
I'm saying for anyone's own mental health, we shouldn't expect constant praise and positivity from comments. You're gonna read stuff you won't like on the internet.
It's completely unrealistic Elixir (or anything else - Julia, whatever) will replace Python as the main AI/ML language, that's what I wanted to convey. I agree I was being a bit too snarky but what I said is true and was an answer to what OP asked.
You can't be that sensitive while reading internet comments, you'll have a rough time.
As for my past comments on Elixir - I tend to remain factual. I used to have a hard problem with the way the Elixir community was crapping all over Ruby to poach mind share but I moved on. Ruby also did that to Java when it was starting so that's life.
That's definitely possible but it can definitely still "go up" - even for years. We're already used to debt to gdp being around 130% in the U.S (which a decade ago would have been unthinkable), who says it can't go to 200%. These numbers lose their wow effect really quickly and we all get used to them.
In fact, breaking the current dynamic is so hard and risky that central banks are tempted to stretch the debt further and further to prevent a market crash and a recession.
And yet there's inflation for real now, a sign things maybe can't go on like this for long.
I really have no idea but I'm not brave enough to make predictions over such a random thing as where the economy goes next year.
Not many people are gonna risk confrontation with a colleague over some candidate they don't know. Especially not during the interview, maybe afterwards when things are calm.
I'm agreeing with you here but let's stay realistic; some companies have assholes working for them, sometimes these assholes get to positions of power. Usually the company knows damn well employee X has a bit of an attitude problem but...guess he adds enough value (or acts well enough) to keep being employed.
> Overall I'm not sure how much value we get out of coderpad
Well so you're pretty much in agreement with the author it seems. He's just more convinvced than you that coderpad is actually more bad than good that's all, you have a bit more doubts.
Everything he said is spot on.
I suspect algorithm interviews are optimized for FAANGS - e.g if you can do the whiteboard and coderpad under pressure and interruptions you'd statistically do well in FAANG. I suppose that's true otherwise they wouldn't be doing it.
But this hiring process is extremely broken for most everyone else; FAANGs don't really care about false negatives; they have so many great people wanting to work for them its ok for them not to hire some great people.
But this whole process seems problematic to me for smaller companies who are in great need of good people and aren't drowning in great resumes. You can't really afford to miss 50% of great people if you're a startup, and this process will do just that; it will let you hire good people but also not hire good people on a really bad margin.
Companies who are not FAANGs, especially startups, are better off coming up with some hiring process like the author described; it's not perfect but it will have less false negatives.
> because there isn't any significant changes in the technology of carpentry at least once a decade making carpentry skills obsolete in the eyes of the marketplace
That's a bit extreme I think. Tech changes yes. But let's say you were a a C#/C++/Java/Python/Ruby dev 10 years ago - how bad has it all changed in the last 10 years that your entire experience is somehow nullified? I'm not denying that some higher-ups like to adopt this line of thinking to justify hiring cheap juniors. Self respecting engineering companies don't really buy this bull.
Yeah I'm not sure about quoting Christopher McCandless so much... I was fascinated by him as well but end of the day he was a super young dude who decided to go into the wild with insufficient preparation, on purpose, and died of hunger. It is what it is. He never amounted to become Yoda or Ghandi or anything that we should be so comfortable in quoting him.