This is pretty normal for the start of a downturn. There's probably a bunch of forced vacation going on (or will be), too. I remember a lot of that from the healthier companies in the 2002 time frame and a friend of mine at a more hardware-oriented company told me his company is doing that.
Despite what EMT fundamentalists will tell you, the stock market is only loosely correlated with fundamentals and 100 pts is nothing. Besides, there's no reason a company's profit _must_ decline during a downturn: for example, if they perfectly predict the downturn and reduce expenses (like laying people off) just before it hits.
It's going to be normalised in the coming years, across small and huge companies. Not sure how all the web devs will adjust.
Also we aren't in 2010. You don't need to build as much in house anymore or patch up tech that doesn't scale. Modern frameworks, cloud, and open source tech makes things at least 10x easier than they used to be. We will only improve in this regard.
Only if the rate of newer services/companies keep up and outweigh the ease of development we should eventually reach. People are currently still maintaining jQuery PHP and other tech that makes doing anything much more complicated than it needs to be.
might be a naive take but i think LLMs will improve the ease with which maintenance can happen.
one of the major problems with older tech is finding people who are willing to work in that domain for cheap - LLMs seem to trivialise that.
How do you think they trivialize it? I've found them to be good for writing short scripts or answering a specific question. I've never seen one that you point at your own code base and have it do things like write a new endpoint that takes into account all the existing database and authentication code. If such a thing exists I'd like to know about it.
Your first sentence is describing the web based LLMs. There are others that operate against the project structure and has read all the files. But a lot of CRUDs also involve a much easier modular domain structure.
LLMs amplify you quite a bit in productivity if you're doing CRUD which is what most people are doing. You just clean up the code and clarify potential improvements.
That's entirely possible. eBay is a very mature product, and it has been like this for years. Among the e-commerce platforms, it's still one that empowers the little people and serves a goal. I hope they won't "disrupt" it.
Every year or two Ebay rewrites their UI and makes it slightly worse. I kind of wish they'd laid off a good chunk of their designers/developers three or four UI's ago.
Some much this. If executives were held accountable and terminated for performance failures resulting in layoffs rather than rewarded with earnings bonuses I would feel more sympathy.
I think it was expected after Musk let go of so many people and technically speaking twitter is still functioning as it was with a bunch of extra features (half baked some might be).
> AI is a buzzword that allows the layoffs to happen
Not a single public layoff announcement has mentioned AI as the reason. In fact the current round of layoffs have been going on since before ChatGPT or Github Copilot even launched publicly.
bigcommerce, volusion, new relic, optimizely, wistia, volusion, aweber, cnn, campaign monitor, all down for me. The biggest thing is seeing that ALL shopify stores are offline, so much $$$ being lost right now.
I'm looking to be able to have all those features on a platform that doesn't charge us $500+ a month.
We have users uploading images to our system. We use cloudinary to automatically resize/compress those images down, and then they are served up through their CDN.
Our issue is we have too much traffic, so we use a lot of bandwidth.
Isn't this basically the honeypot captcha or invisble captcha method? I don't think it would work as well since we our forms are submitted via ajax request, but I could be mistaken?
It's my understanding that the spammers parse the form's HTML to determine which fields must be submitted and the URL to which they must be POSTed.
Remember, you don't need a perfect solution to this. When you and another person are being chased by a tiger, you don't need to outrun the tiger, just outrun the other guy.
Well... most large ins cos have these lines. Allstate, Farmers, State Farm. If you have a house, call your agent they will get you a deal that's a small business rider on your homeowners ins. If you don't have a house... call the agent you got your car insurance from.
Or google "Small business general liability insurance <your city>" There are probably a boatload of brokers.
If you're in SoCal or PHX... I'll give you a couple of names of good biz brokers
if you are employees of your own company and you pay yourself a paycheck (not a shareholder distribution)... you may want to consider a PEO so you don't have to get Worker's comp... that can be a pain in the ass...
