I get a headache reading this Readme. So much llm slop. Is the project itself a vibe as well?

I find it hard to invest any time in learning about a project if the surface symbols indicate it being a low effort project.

It's less being slop and more being technical bomb drop, especially the features section. (And this section pales in comparison to the implementation notes.) Although Claude-generated, it reads fine to programming language nerds like the author but, indeed, will give headaches to those that aren't.

> In fact, they actually ended up costing more to the employer than a local would, due to having to deal with immigration lawyers/filing fees/etc. (all while being paid the same as everyone else).

I mean, you were actually underpaying the local workers if this was the case? If you offered the fully loaded salary to the local workers they might have accepted.

Or the local going rate for qualified personel were higher than you were willing to pay (which per def is true, if you had to bring in foreign work?).

> Or the local going rate for qualified personel were higher than you were willing to pay (which per def is true, if you had to bring in foreign work?).

Yeah, by definition this is pretty much always true, no? No matter how scarce local workers are, if you were willing to offer double the market rate you could probably find someone. Scarcity and price are two sides of the same coin, that's how markets work. Bringing in labor from another country when local talent is scarce both reduces costs/wages and reduces scarcity.

Workers on an H1B are more abusable though - if they lose the job they have something like 30 days to find another one or they have to leave the country entirely.

So you talk a good game about work life balance and then after you hire an H1B worker and bring them to the country you can spring 60 hour weeks doing tedius things and many won't be in a position to say no.

The salary might also seem higher to somebody who doesn't understand the cost of living in the US (and how many things are not paid for via taxes like healthcare).

At all of my jobs everyone was treated the same.

Yep, and that is also an explicit requirement for interviewers at every company I worked at.

I had to do interview training myself at one of them, and the guidelines were fairly specific and clear about this. We neither knew about the immigration status of the candidate nor were we allowed to ask/note/talk about it at all. Same as with age/marital status/etc.

> Or the local going rate for qualified personel were higher than you were willing to pay

Whenever someone says "But then the locals making $400k would make $500k" I have to ask: where are all these qualified locals for whom $400k isn't enough money already? Shouldn't all the laid-off people be champing at the bit for these jobs?

At some price point you genuinely do run out of local talent. At that point it's just a question of whether the work goes abroad or foreign workers come in.

IME we had very few people turn down offers, and even the it was rarely about the comp.

It’s hard to get people to even interview, or find them in the first place.

> Or the local going rate for qualified personel were higher than you were willing to pay (which per def is true, if you had to bring in foreign work?).

Nope, immigration fees/lawyer expenses are simply just a negligible cost in the grand scheme of things.

When you hire someone earning $350k+ in annual TC, an extra $10-20k one-time cost of immigration-related expenses is a nothingburger for big tech companies.

Along the same line of reasoning: relocation expenses for candidates within the US. Big tech companies don't stress over a one-time $10k relocation package cost (for a candidate that passed the interviews and accepted the offer, but just happened to be from another state).

International relocation is much more, I’ve had close to 50k for just domestic.

But I never had the impression they cared about the amount very much.

They do. Talk to your account representative for the alternate domain name to hit.

Should use on premises.

Should use Forgejo

Agree.

Interesting topic but why destroy your own credibility and reputation by shoveling llm-assisted slop to us here at hn?

The post should be flagged, and in general, i wish hn would adopt a no-tolerance policy to enhanced posting like this.

So what if the original text, if it existed in a human written form at all, had weird textual quirks and prose issues the author wished to hide. That texture's what makes humans interesting to engage with in the first place.

I think I need to build “Hacker News Except All Arguments About Whether Or Not Something Is AI-Written Are Filtered Out”