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I’m a Europe-based remote Software Engineer, currently working as a Frontend Architect for L’Oreal. For the past 10+ years I’ve been helping companies develop web applications, optimize website performance, create effective development teams and optimize their software development processes.

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Agent token costs = yearly senior dev wage

In a recent podcast episode, Jason Calacanis mentioned he’s paying $300/day on tokens to run an AI agent (Claude). Given the wave of AI-powered layoffs in the tech industry, I can’t help but wonder: are the executives signing off on such actions victims of aggressive, well thought-out marketing or are they perpetrators?

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Code brevity

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We all want to write simple, short, effective code. My biggest desire when i was just starting up as a developer was to write short code. Even today, when I look at a piece of code, my initial reaction is to look for ways to simplify . The problem? I might not know enough about the problem I’m solving or the code I am working with to make that change… yet.

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Let’s become web developers again

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We’ve turned everything into bundles of JavaScript and everything else… even HTML is JavaScript… I spend most of my day looking at red text in the console and in performance audit reports for websites. Websites, mind you, not web apps! The web can do so much these days so let’s become web developers again. Or, in the words of the great Jay Z: Get back to rap, you’re T-paining too much…

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