Get medicated, try hacks while medicated, see if any of it sticks while you are taking a break from your meds. Most won't and the few that do won't be a replacement for medication, but at least it's something.

But the percentage of those who are not so great there is significantly higher than on any popular instance that I know. Yes, blocking everyone is not ideal, but it's a valid low effort way of improving your experience.

Have you had a chance to use it yet? Was it any good?

I guess Claude is no longer writing our code - fixing stuff some of my coworkers quaffed into existence is definitely cruel let alone some of the budget Chinese models.

Knowing a guy and/or having a reputation helps a lot. That's how I got all but 2 jobs in the last 15 years.

The problem is that no amount of that changes a thing if ai replaced employees for those positions (or managers convinced themselves it did).

In my 20 year career I've witnessed 1 (one) person get promoted into a tech role after holding a different position at the company.

Job opportunities for junior and intermediate software devs were not great 5 years ago and now ai killed them entirely. My previous employer not only stopped that kind of hiring but fired ~20% of the staff and told seniors to make up the difference with ai.

PS5 exclusive, so it might as well not exist - Sony is dead to me.

That sounds like it could be the sealing issue reviews mentioned. Please update once you had a chance to use it.

How do you like the fermenter? I've had it in my cart for a while, but I haven't pulled the trigger yet because reviews flagged shitty welds and bad sealing

Pfft.. it's been fine for the last 10 years.

And people still get mad when we give honest feedback about compensation.

Shout-out to the recruiter who tried to convince me to take a 60k paycut because nobody will pay my current rate ( the one I was already being paid ). I strive to reach your level of audacity one day.

I'm guessing It would put you in the bottom 10% in the area mentioned in the job listing.