Makes sense. The "Flying cars" were not used literally in the post though but rather as a way of expressing the more interesting things we can build.

Looking for a new role has been harder than ever, at least for me personally. I've been looking for a year now and noticed that a large number of companies advertise roles which weren't meant for hiring and this manifests as non responsiveness, repetitiveness of the ad etc.

I've spent a lot of time reading ads, applying to ads, writing cover letters and customizing my application and I can confidently say that over 40% of these went into ghost jobs. I find existing tools either indifferent or too noisy and hence thought of coming up with a collaborative and to the point simple website to track these ghost jobs and help every tech job seeker focus on what matters.

It's really basic but if people find it useful we can always make it better!

Yes. Heavy curation and high quality content and journalism, from humans to humans.

What does responsibility mean? How does it translate to actual work and skills?

One of the most useful functions of a good manager is to act as a shield for their team from upper management firestorms. That's a role that I think AI is particularly unsuited for, given their tendency to be obsequious.

As a more general role, the idea of responsibility is that the manager has the job of making sure that individual employees' tasks are suited both to their individual competence and abilities and to the corporation's deliverables and ultimate bottom line. This requires making arguments in both directions: in pulling employees to working on things more useful to the company, and in changing the deliverables to capitalize on employees' abilities.

As I get it (and I’m not a smart or well-educated person, so please correct me if I’m wrong or misinformed or talking nonsense), responsibility is status that arises from the recognition of one’s moral obligations. Companies are at least partially formed around shared moral obligations, or put simply - goals. At least without those they become meaningless economic machines, and our culture tends to favor things “having” a meaning.

With multiple agents (of any nature) feedback is essential for the work to be done well - that’s my understanding of how it translates to the actual work getting done.

That's the best thing I've read in months if not years.

Yawn.

Recruiting is hard. Global recruiting is really hard.

Good times.

I really think we are modern slaves in a pseudo-liberal capitalistic wrapper. It's going to become clearer to future generations looking back, similar to how we are now able to detect and understand mistakes of the past. Male toxicity and patriarchy for example only recently began to surface as a mistake.

While we still jobs and offer our services to society there are a number of things that need to fix and delete from our collective consciousness. All these stem from the same root of evil: the office. Similar to plants, we, the workers are gathering there, under some occult organizational umbrella which sometimes resembles a "family". We need to be there on a specific time, do specific things, we are being monitored and controlled. We need to behave in a certain way and leave our true self at home. We need to blindly obey a person called "the boss" or "the manager" and act under some military discipline executing commands. We need to climb some ladder of promises, most of which fail to deliver. This is a dark place full of lack of trust, insecurity and control.

Diversity, flexible working, remote working, shared vision and mission are some of the things that we have realized and applied. I am glad that we did but there is still a lot of work to be done. Working needs to be more like the freelancer/consultant type where possible: get the job done and you're paid attitude, rather than a weird let's have you around stand-by just in case. Similar to how an electrician comes to your place fixes the damage and immediately leaves, where possible workers need to do the same. Can you imagine your electrician spending her day at your place, 9-5? Sitting there just in case? And you will get to threaten, trash talk, be the boss and give orders.

We are still in the Palaeolithic era when it comes to how we work, with some improvements indeed but with also the heaviest pressure from the most powerful people globally.

I think that's spot on. The timing is good too as recently Meta published a new music generating AI agent which was trained on music outside of the public domain. IP concerns are up in the air and it looks like Neural Nets can be fed with anything these days.