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After many years of working hard, my wife and I finally decided to have a kid recently. I am looking forward to spending a lot more time with her, while working just a 9-5. However, the AI boom seems like a short-lived, once in a life-time opportunity. Now I am considering if I should dive in fully even if it means sacrificing time with family?

Options: 1) Joining an AI startup 2) Founding an AI startup 3) Stay at my big-tech role

I make good money at my current role, but I am extremely passionate about the work I do. With the AI boom, there seems to be a lot of great infra, data movement and algorithmic challenges on the table. However, it is also clear that options 1 and 2 seem to require a lot more time commitment than a simple 9-5 job.

There are also financial considerations. If AI affects the SWE job market in a meaningful way, my future salary will be drastically low. Maybe it makes sense to devote myself to work for 3-5 more years and make a lot more money in the short term? I understand that there is also some probability associated with the final amount I walk away with.

Any others thinking about how to approach the AI boom vs leaning in fully to parenthood?

There's a lot of discussions on coding agents - and best practices for building a good coding agent. How are folks building devops agents that debug production outages? Any useful resources?

I have 10+ years of high-performance C++ development for distributed systems/databases/operating systems but have zero experience with web/app development. I wanted to try my hand at app development to prototype a few ideas. I looked at the landscape and I am struggling with the following questions:

1. Native apps vs a PWA (web app)- what is the recommendation these days? 2. If I want to build native apps, is there a stack that will make it easy for cross-platform development? React Native seems to be a popular suggestion online but it is only for business logic not UI?

3. Are there any useful resources/stacks suited for someone familiar with C++ development?

Folks who build/use distributed databases, what are some good examples of query profiling infra/UI for understanding where time was spent in query execution?

I recently moved to Salt Lake City, Utah as a remote worker. I have heard about the tech scene here but I'm not sure how to find it given that I have no friends here.

I looked on Meetup but I didn't find any active tech groups. I just want to meet fellow developers and chat about cool technology!

I am thinking about moving to a fully remote role in my current team at one of the FAANG companies. I have been in my current team for 3 years and I have a good rapport with my colleagues.

I have been working from home for the past year so I am used to it by now. However, the rest of the team will start going back to the office soon and that will change things going forward.

Does any one with related experiences have any advice, warnings or tips to share?

A friend of mine asked me for some advice regarding her son, who recently graduated high school and will be going to a good university seeking to major in Computer Science. Her son has completed an AP Comp Sci course that focuses on Java programming. Unfortunately, the summer job that he had lined up fell through at the last minute. I figured that maybe he could use the time to get some skills that will help him look for an internship after the first year. I have provided him resources to learn git and unix. I am looking for ideas/resources for small coding projects that he can work on this summer, maybe even any open-source projects that are feasible for someone with some Java knowledge.

Any ideas will be welcome!

I am currently doing research on a new abstraction for files. For usecases, I am looking for applications that create/manage a lot of files (perhaps temporary files). I know that some mail servers store each email as a separate file. Going by a previous post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12209028), Angular development involves a lot of files being created. Compilers seem like another application that create temporary files.

Are there other such applications/scenarios that I am missing?