For me: Will this task take 30 seconds or 3 minutes. With good planning I've been able to step away and come back. Sometimes it decides to prompt me within 5 seconds for permissions. Sometimes it runs for 15 minutes.

The output is still small and I can review it. I can switch tasks, however if it's my primary effort for the day I don't like stepping away for an hour to do something else.

Not the OP, but the new LLMs together with harnesses (OpenCode in my case) can handle larger scopes of work - so the workflow moves away from pair programming (single-file changes, small scope diffs) to full-feature PR reviewing.

Yeah, but you can ask ai questions about it so you can understand it faster

You are trying to check the code for hallucinations. The AI will just hallucinate back a plausible answer for your questions. It’s entirely detached from the process that generated the code so it doesn’t have any more insight than you do on it.

Works great if you’re using a very common language. I wasted more time than I care to admit trying this with a pascal code base.

You are absolutely right.

The reality is that shoddy work often wins out due to pricing.

Are the controllers that are working getting paid interest on the late payments ?

Right. And azure has issues as witnessed last week with the outage.

I’m terrified of what would happen if I lost my tech job. It’s not the income but more the cost of insurance for a family of four.

How is this legal?

They will tax outsourcing next presumably.

I hear what you are saying, but I feel like this is related more to both parents working or single parent households. The more time parents work, the harder it is to get ahead, the more screen time kids will get.

Visa abuse has always been a serious issue. Are you sure we have been looking the other way, or just not looking? With the latter, the crackdown we are seeing makes sense.

Yah-- there's been no desire to enforce ESTA/B-1 visa restrictions for ordinary abuses, because we don't have a workable short term productive work regime. We don't really have a mechanism where Hyundai can bring over labor that can read engineering drawings and manuals in Korean to set up a factory and train local workers.

Most countries have a short term, productive work permit. We don't-- closest thing you can do is L-1 (and often this doesn't work: you can't hire workers for the purpose or use contractors).

Lottery based and slow systems like H-1B/H-2B don't work, and H-2B is intended for low skill labor. If we expect Korean and Taiwanese companies to establish factories, we must either provide a viable legal pathway for their technicians or accept the reality of ongoing B-1 visa violations. (I prefer the former).

(Oddly enough, ESTA/B-1 allow receiving training but not giving it).

> Oddly enough, ESTA/B-1 allow receiving training but not giving it

Does this mean there is an equivalent in South Korea where the US could send workers on this Visa to receive training on how to build their (Hyundai) factories?

Hyundai absolutely does a lot of training of US-based employees in Korea.

But sometimes you have a shorter-term need for some setup talent (especially when language skills and understanding local engineering conventions is important). This is much more common during plant construction.

I don't think you're going to quickly train US workers on how to decipher Korean documentation.