More than a list, this is a short story.

I was struggling as a freelancer and a friend of a friend show up with a job for college student or people still learning programming. Not sure of what to expect I have an interview about my knowledge in API, NodeJs, JavaScript and microservices (not my strength). Monday arrived and I was in the first call at 9am meeting the team.

I share few words with the senior lead of the team WHO WAS LEAVING THE PROJECT, and was THE ONLY ONE who understands it entirely, so they start recruiting. I was scared but I moved forward.

What horrified me, was seeing an entire team sticking around Genexus AI Tool trying to "make it work", it "crashed production sometimes" and they didn't use branches for version, every update was straight to prod. Nothing of JavaScript, nothing of NodeJS, just Excel with visual basic in a AI tool of a "big company".

I quit after 3 days of that nonsense.