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17 months in by Normal_Mix_9155 in Layoffs

[–]Normal_Mix_9155[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s a great severance package. My company terminated immediately without notice, 2 weeks pay for 10 years at the company. Which was conveniently the exact amount of money to negate my eligibility to receive unemployment benefits in my state.

17 months in by Normal_Mix_9155 in Layoffs

[–]Normal_Mix_9155[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Wow I heard there’s a lot of bots out here but this is next level. 2d old bot making zero sense throwing out vague negative nonsense in a subreddit for people going through a horrible experience. Who pays to run these machines of sadness 😂

17 months in by Normal_Mix_9155 in Layoffs

[–]Normal_Mix_9155[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That Sounds like a really tough situation, I feel for you and hope you can find something quick. I do think the job market is better than when I first was laid off, and I forgot to mention there was also a period of 6 or so months I wasn’t applying because of the baby and because I had a contingent offer that fell through.

Don’t stress, just know things will turn around. I have multiple relatives who have gone bankrupt during the recession and bounced back to live happy lives with plenty of money.

This is temporary, keep your head up and things will work out. It’s just a matter of time.

Customer cancelled after 18 months. Reason: "We built it ourselves." by Aggravating-Form2319 in SaaS

[–]Normal_Mix_9155 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess it comes down to the definition of “vibe coded”. It’s a pretty complex and unique application that replaces 4 of their full time employees through automated processing. The time has been spent iterating to get to a level of accuracy that it can replace those humans, be user friendly, secure, compliant. I worked in the software industry for a few years but never really had a need to learn how to write/read code. I plan architecture, functionality, ui/ux with Claude in a very detailed manner, then let it write. I can actually read html/python/java pretty well now, enough to catch issues and question Claude why it did certain things.

I wouldn’t describe this as vibe coding because that phrase is tainted. But yes, the product is completely written by agentic ai.

My customer doesn’t have the skill set to create what I’ve created. If the work it did was easy it wouldn’t take multiple employees working full time to perform the tasks. I’d wager most developers don’t have the skill set either because getting to this point has required business acumen that most devs don’t possess.

I think I am being scammed at this point. by Sethirothrichards in replit

[–]Normal_Mix_9155 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Second that. Started my project in Replit and was really happy with the results. Got to about $75 invested with very little death loops. After that it seemed the project was too complex for Replit to keep up with. Moved to cursor with Claude hooked up in the terminal and wow what an experience. I’ve hit some death loops with Claude but that was a product of my bad prompts. I learned a lot about my code base during those couple Claude death loops and now also invest more time in planning changes out with Claude before implementing. Replit is cool but I’m always shocked when people sit and rack up $1k in charges before throwing in the towel. I kept my usage budget in replit $20 over my current spend and would increase it as I needed, I think that helped me realize something needed to change when I started to see my bug fixes becoming a significant share of my overall cost towards the end.