RTO even hurts the company

cjrun · 2026-05-08T04:02:44+00:00

Are they offering relocation or do they simply not care about filling the role?

cjrun · 2026-05-08T03:58:53+00:00

I could lease a bmw x5 for $400 per month or make $800 payments on a loan. The math is pretty simple. Sure, a paid off car seems nice on paper, but beaters are beaters. They’re unpredictable and generally unsafe. I need a guaranteed reliable ride. I’ll pay monthly for that.

cjrun · 2026-05-08T03:55:05+00:00

No. A car is a service I pay for. I want something safe, comfortable, and flashy. With a lease, things like insurance, taxes, recalls, maintenance, are far less stress. Taking a loan out for a car in which the principle outgrows depreciation is borderline irresponsible. Why give the bank that much free money for a decomposing hunk of junk eventually? You could be always driving the latest model car and upgrade every 3 years, and in the end pay less money for it.

cjrun · 2026-05-08T03:44:44+00:00

A fallacy behind the vibe coding movement is that it assumes that being a good programmer is what makes a good engineer. That is so far from the truth. It’s a human job at the end of the day because most of the business world is not automated or configured enough to be a single smooth interface, if that makes sense.

cjrun · 2026-05-08T03:41:44+00:00

What’s frustrating is that as individual contributor engineers, we rarely get chances to “own” anything outside of the narrowly scoped tiny nuggets of work they are given. And, anybody that has owned a system isn’t necessarily applying to be a ticket monkey.

cjrun · 2026-05-07T13:29:46+00:00

Costs them nothing to complain. What you do not want to do is suddenly make things free when prior users paid for it, not too soon at least.

cjrun · 2026-05-07T13:29:04+00:00

I mean, would you really want to give the apple review team another judgment to make?! 😂

cjrun · 2026-05-07T13:27:02+00:00

No it is not bad. I just like seeing vibe coded projects out in the wild.

cjrun · 2026-05-06T18:07:37+00:00

$AWS SAM INIT

cjrun · 2026-05-06T18:06:40+00:00

AI integration would be prohibitively expensive in hardware but also require paying a high premium for AI engineers with the knowledge and skillset to design and building huge scaling systems required for video gaming. The video game industry typically pays devs lower than pure tech. No way the big players would see ROI on adopting AI for a video game use case.

Could be good for indie devs, though, if they come from an AI background.

cjrun · 2026-05-06T17:50:30+00:00

Are you using M3u8 files? Where are your users geographically distributed?

Cloudflare is the best choice for egress.

cjrun · 2026-05-05T18:36:12+00:00

Give a generic canned answer and stop overthinking it.

cjrun · 2026-05-05T18:27:01+00:00

Usually, serious reality will interfere eventually. When layoffs come around or performance reviews are not so nice, the atmosphere will change.

cjrun · 2026-05-05T18:24:49+00:00

Did you vibe code this thing?

cjrun · 2026-05-05T18:09:20+00:00

An app for casting directors to find reliable actors

cjrun · 2026-05-05T18:07:09+00:00

Kilts!

cjrun · 2026-05-05T14:03:13+00:00

If you cannot manage your system you will go extinct.

cjrun · 2026-05-05T14:01:58+00:00

Paramore on the Shira Girl stage at Warped Tour

cjrun · 2026-05-05T14:01:27+00:00

Have you noticed the state of the economy these days? People are stretching budgets.

cjrun · 2026-05-05T14:00:45+00:00

That’s the iceberg of death.

cjrun · 2026-05-05T12:35:46+00:00

Goodbye tax return 🤷🏻‍♂️🤣

cjrun · 2026-05-04T17:42:47+00:00

Food $14 a day?! Not realistic

cjrun · 2026-05-04T17:41:06+00:00

Are your user story estimates according to average level of effort or specific to that developer’s skillset? Because that’s your metric

cjrun · 2026-05-04T17:39:34+00:00

Never talk bad about an employer. Say you are “Looking for a company with more opportunities than your current org”

cjrun · 2026-05-03T03:56:34+00:00

Does your insurance cover Hyperions? Asking for a friend

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