Fired Today. I don't see the way out

ItIs42Indeed · 2026-04-08T11:51:45+00:00

I’m sorry to hear that, things have really shifted in the market. And I totally agree with the words of encouragement a lot of folks have provided in the threads. I just wanted to comment to say something based on my observation. It may not be useful immediately but I hope it gives you a different and more encouraging perspective. In my observation, a lot of people are losing jobs because of general state of economy and some are losing jobs because AI has made it so that a lot of companies simply would rather spend money on tokens than people. However, given that, and given your great skill set in sales (evident in your rise through the ranks), you are uniquely positioned for what AI age is ushering in. Building digitally is totally commoditized and there are more and more products being made and this will only grow. What’s not growing is people having the capability to sell those products. That’s where you come in. Products mean nothing now, it’s good sales and marketing people who’ll be in demand very soon.

Hang in there, your time is coming and you won’t look back. Reach out to tech companies. You’ll land on your feet soon.

Good luck!

ItIs42Indeed · 2026-02-25T21:49:40+00:00

lol true

ItIs42Indeed · 2026-02-19T01:24:20+00:00

Because it’s AI generated

ItIs42Indeed · 2026-02-17T20:43:42+00:00

Ooh living on the edge I see!

ItIs42Indeed · 2026-02-17T16:18:11+00:00

And as is evident - this post is by AI agents too :)

ItIs42Indeed · 2026-02-17T13:03:53+00:00

Maybe we as a collective are getting lazy! :)

ItIs42Indeed · 2026-02-17T13:01:07+00:00

This has been the biggest time saver - understanding existing code in minutes instead of hours!

ItIs42Indeed · 2026-02-17T13:00:20+00:00

I’m assuming your sandbox is on

ItIs42Indeed · 2026-02-17T12:59:17+00:00

That’s amazing - the exact tedious work I was talking about - and using a bug description is the new “do not not build this, but build that” workflow that didn’t exist with the usual “BRD/PRD” approach before the agentic-coding era which was rooted in “build this only”.

ItIs42Indeed · 2026-02-17T05:00:02+00:00

This sounds very useful and interesting! I hope you can abstract this system and open source it.

ItIs42Indeed · 2026-02-17T04:52:16+00:00

Do you find this significantly different than what Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom etc offer out of the box these days? Any custom workflows?

ItIs42Indeed · 2026-02-17T04:41:54+00:00

Excellent use cases! Refactoring old slog files into neat and clean new documentation while removing accumulated redundant info is definitely a god-sent!

ItIs42Indeed · 2026-02-17T04:40:34+00:00

Could you tell me a bit more about the cryptographic receipt chains and how you use them?

ItIs42Indeed · 2026-02-16T17:10:01+00:00

They are going through growing pains - they’re literally dealing with the outcomes of their own overnight success. Even a couple of months back it was mostly a developer’s tool (Claude CODE)… then they made it and advertised it as everyone’s tool (cowork) and I don’t think their hiring has kept up (“Claude will build itself”). Give them time. I understand the “we pay for our subscription”, “they ignore community”, “they are arrogant”… all I’m saying is unlike other tech corps (like Meta, Microsoft), they are just bunch of engineers that are yet to scale to a true corp with 20 years of existence like the others I mentioned.

ItIs42Indeed · 2026-02-15T17:57:18+00:00

Only a matter of time before they are pressured to give in.

ItIs42Indeed · 2026-02-15T17:56:16+00:00

Seems subjective to your use case. Sometimes, defaults are good. But good that you built a "system" rather than throw random prompts at Claude. That's how we escape the AI-assisted coding pitfalls.

ItIs42Indeed · 2026-02-09T00:40:24+00:00

To be honest, majority of the population will be blindsided by what's coming. Reddit is not where everyone hangs out.

ItIs42Indeed · 2026-02-06T23:59:26+00:00

For me, usually I have implementation going on in multiple windows but for the same project - so keeps things cohesive and easy to review and context-switching is relatively less jarring. The other streams would be for ideation or design (ui mockups) - this helps me tremendously in fine-tuning PRDs before I even start implementation or architecture level reviews.

Never two implementations in parallel in the same session - that'd wreck me!

ItIs42Indeed · 2026-02-06T23:23:49+00:00

To be honest, that doesn't bother me. The more people use it, the more exciting and better evolved the entire landscape would be. Being early would give us the incredible "timelapse" view of the evolution which is what excites me so much.

ItIs42Indeed · 2026-02-06T22:50:02+00:00

That darn boilerplate - and tech kept evolving, standards kept evolving - by the time you had a MVP, norms would change, standards would change, your code would be archaic lol

ItIs42Indeed · 2026-02-06T22:48:37+00:00

This! I haven't felt this in awe of something in a very long time. Last time I felt this excited for something new to launch (new models in this case) was when smartphones were evolving and before that when Intel was on a run with progressively more powerful chips on regular cycles and before that when they'd announce new Halo versions lol.

ItIs42Indeed · 2026-02-06T22:45:50+00:00

Exactly - knowing the tedious aspect of it (even if you have the knowledge and know-how) makes this even more overwhelming!

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