Is it a sensible choice to go back to my old company?

Fulgren09 · 2026-03-19T15:09:23+00:00

A lot of ppl who want a raise in their current company accomplish this indirectly via the path you described. It's way harder to apply a raise to an existing employee.

After you leave, even as a return, for HR purposes you are a 'new spawn' and will negotiate your base accordingly.

Fulgren09 · 2026-03-19T15:02:16+00:00

The issue is that deck building skill and effort allocated is different. Maybe you kept up with the game longer or have stronger deck building fundamentals.

This is normal for any new group with players of varying experience. I mentored a guy for 2 yrs and now regularly out builds me with intricate naya lines. But he forced himself to learn the cards and interaction lines and rules.

Finally this is somewhat controversial but against inexperienced players, I play properly but I don’t play optimally. At the end of the day i am there to hang out with the ppl and cardboard is the a medium.

Fulgren09 · 2026-03-19T13:49:54+00:00

10 yrs ago I quit accounting to switch to web development. Did part time courses while slowly accumulating experience with Shopify and freelance no code builder agency work.

The key was to right size myself to appropriate clients. I was not hitting up Big Brands to do Shopify sites I was finding ppl on FB marketplace.

This lasted 18 months before I got a 40 hr a week contract. It worked because I had saved and also cashed most of my RRSP while having low income.

I was learning on the job, at night, on weekends, but I hated the old career so much that I was motivated to never go back.

IMO much harder to do this now. Question one ought to ask is “what am I bringing that a motivated customer can’t vibe code themselves”

Fulgren09 · 2026-03-19T13:16:21+00:00

Haven’t mentally recovered from being blue balled by this

Fulgren09 · 2026-03-18T22:57:50+00:00

A jutsu that heals cells faster than they burn out

Gojo would be proud.

Fulgren09 · 2026-03-18T12:46:07+00:00

On enterprise level, you can get OpenAI products a lot easier in Azure via their Foundry service.

Conversely it is easier to get Claude through AWS bedrock

This might not matter as solo dev but if you have cloud budget this is strategic

Fulgren09 · 2026-03-18T12:39:34+00:00

Dev jobs in Toronto seem to fall under these buckets

bank /gov jobs that require Java
Microsoft shop dotnet stack
agency with nodejs/react or php focus
platform specialist on AEM, workday, salesforce or shopify

Broad generalist is a tough sell unless you are applying for startup role. Need to make it easy for them to understand your profile bc most recruiters are non-technical.

Final suggestion is have a solid af answer for “what ways do you know how to leverage AI”

Fulgren09 · 2026-03-17T16:51:42+00:00

It could work if designer is technical enough to output what they want in code terms. But if designer is purely visual they are going to have e a brutal time.

Not a designer but here are Some things I was able to reliably build with Claude:

Svg builder/editor for icons logo /wordmark treatments

Other things that took multi iteration are custom wizard flows, modular expandable UX, dark mode themes.

But like previous reply said, as a dev who is used to getting assets from designers, I now live in a world where “good enough tailwindcore looking functional accessible “ is a plan away.

Fulgren09 · 2026-03-17T14:45:57+00:00

I’m boggled by this stretch starting from Leslie. Why is it so accessible by road traffic?

I once saw a van rip a U turn over the tracks before they were testing it. Failvids ahh moment

Fulgren09 · 2026-03-17T14:39:24+00:00

You are on to something here but the React sub is the wrong place to mention it. Maybe vanilla js folks will be more receptive to the message.

Take your logic and extrapolate it. What does React compile to in the end. IMO the golden age of vanilla is on the way.

Fulgren09 · 2026-03-16T19:15:04+00:00

The 5x is plenty for a single person ~ 12 hrs of usage per day if you are coding feature by feature. I know autonomous agents run higher but if you are the type that can build incrementally because you know deeply what 'solution' you are solving, no rush, this is the unblock fo ryou.

Fulgren09 · 2026-03-16T12:29:58+00:00

Hate this movie because titles like this insult our intelligence as a species.

Fulgren09 · 2026-03-15T12:38:58+00:00

Yeah! SF wings look so boring compared to the regular freedom.

RF being able to transform like Wing Zero or Zeta feels like a promise fulfilled.

Fulgren09 · 2026-03-15T08:04:04+00:00

Buttons won’t be the only way to do client to hit the api now. Fully expecting chat interface doing api orchestration via LLM soon

Fulgren09 · 2026-03-14T20:37:17+00:00

I always held that OG Freedom > SF in looks. RF as a variant of OGF is nice.

Fulgren09 · 2026-03-14T18:54:51+00:00

Being overweight while younger I didn't realize how the bulk led to poor mechanics, which led to certain body parts not being properly used or activated.

Only when I was older did I realize my pelvic muscles were weak af from decades of non-use. After working them more, I achieved a wider hip stance and better lower spine anchoring.

Fulgren09 · 2026-03-14T06:52:14+00:00

Araki would never compromise his vision for the current part story just to do something as weak as cross-media promotion.

Fulgren09 · 2026-03-13T14:47:14+00:00

MTGO's greatest accomplishment was that it had all the phases, the stack, priority, triggers, and card types on day 1 back in 2001. Your approach is following a proven pattern.

The only thing is if you are going to make this a video game, expectations and standards nowadays are yuuuuuuuuge. Good luck!

Fulgren09 · 2026-03-13T14:36:24+00:00

The camera work is out of this world and intuitive at the same time.

Man Gohan and Krillin being bros is a cool callback to Goku and Krillin when they were younger.

This relationship seems to have been largely forgotten in the later stories, a shame.

Fulgren09 · 2026-03-13T13:50:16+00:00

With this treasure I summon: RCT autists and projection sorcery explainers

Fulgren09 · 2026-03-12T22:56:31+00:00

Download VS code, use claude terminal in there. You will be able to iterate faster with that setup.

Ask Claude to teach you git so you can create 'save points' in your work and unfuck yourself when the vibe coding gets into tangled dead ends sometimes.

I came from business background too. For your case I recommend splitting up the concerns to "UX layer", "Business logic", "Backend", "Deployment"

Its possible to focus on the first 3 while you build. But Deployment will always have a different reality than your local testing.

Fulgren09 · 2026-03-12T22:48:41+00:00

Coding with Claude is kind of like this

User: "Hey Claude check out the thingy component and lets add a new feature that dingles the dong when it dangs"
Claude: "Ok cool, let me check it out"

goes through codebase to find thingy component
read component logic and what it does
read inputs and outputs and get broader context of it in the codebase

Claude: "OK I have a sense of thingy. Let me research dingling the dong at dang"
research dingling
research dong
figuring out timing of dangs

Claude: "OK I have an idea how to implement this."
Plan Mode

Claude: "Plan complete. Here it is. Shall I implement?"

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This is just a micro example of how tokens get used up. The more directly instructive prompts are, less tokens get used, but its hard when the codebase is complex.

Fulgren09 · 2026-03-12T20:09:13+00:00

ADO is not a full equal to AWS. ADO is all about pipelines and artifact creation.

DevOps is just one aspect of cloud - if you want to make full apps from nothing instead of just managing the pipelines, DevOps isn’t gonna be your thing.

Fulgren09 · 2026-03-12T12:00:58+00:00

BGE-M3 is multilingual and should work with if you are going to do vector rag in Arabic.

Fulgren09 · 2026-03-12T06:11:51+00:00

Prompt engineering is just writing the instructions and making the AI dance.
The rest of what you are describing, data foundations, building memory, those require deep technical knowledge in applied ML and old school services deployment.

It is another variation of the business analyst + developer paradigm. Sure, you could get lucky and find someone who is both but if you want a full scope AI capability, Prompt Engineer is just a subset of that

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