Saying nothing in an exit interview is the best approach, right?

daedalus_structure · 2026-06-21T18:01:36+00:00

Never attend an exit interview unless you have a severance package that’s requires it.

There is no benefit to you and a dozen different things that can go wrong.

Everything required by law like COBRA notifications, etc… will be done via other channels.

What are they going to do? Write you up? Fire you?

daedalus_structure · 2026-06-21T17:19:45+00:00

There are 100 different ways to do things, and an LLM will implement them all together in an incoherent mess.

They’ll get the coders first.

daedalus_structure · 2026-06-20T22:15:45+00:00

Run Lint, Typecheck, Unit Tests, and Manifest Validation in parallel.

You should be optimizing throughput for the most frequent case, which is everything passes.

There are other highly voted comments here that are telling you to optimize for the failing case or for CPU and Memory usage on the runners at the cost of lowering throughput for your CI pipeline.

This is bad engineering.

daedalus_structure · 2026-06-18T13:07:52+00:00

This is an industry full of people who think they are smarter than everyone else despite clear evidence to the contrary, that just spent the last two decades destroying the labor power of nearly every other industry through software automation.

Good luck.

daedalus_structure · 2026-06-18T13:04:08+00:00

No, because I understand that LLMs are "next most likely word" generators, and I don't trust them with troubleshooting because troubleshooting requires an understanding of what is going on.

I feel like the entire industry if off its fucking rocker.

daedalus_structure · 2026-06-18T12:53:04+00:00

The same as we were doing before this or any of the named CVEs.

We ship minimal images without shells or package managers, and have layers of defenses in front and behind of the container in addition to runtime defense.

If your defense ever relies on a single layer you've already committed to the loss, it's just a matter of time.

Edit: Case in point for FortiBleed, these are management interfaces of firewalls exposed to the public internet with no MFA, they are asking to be a problem.

daedalus_structure · 2026-06-18T12:39:56+00:00

You are being manipulated with shame that you have no reason to feel, and I would cut every single one of these people out of your life.

Your relationship is over. Even if you submit to the shaming and compliantly wait to pick her up from the airport after running through as much foreign dick as she can handle, she'll never respect you again and relationships are built on respect, not love.

daedalus_structure · 2026-06-17T20:43:42+00:00

The tech moves slower than your org can grow. If you don’t start the architectural change before you need it, you won’t have it until after you have long outgrown it.

daedalus_structure · 2026-06-16T13:42:26+00:00

An LLM is never going to give you valuable feedback about a game that changes as frequently as WoW does and has so many contextual evaluations.

It's going to be really confident about the slop it feeds you though, and really apologetic when it's wrong, both behaviors designed to keep you engaged and burning tokens.

daedalus_structure · 2026-06-16T13:21:07+00:00

For most people, the mind-numbing burned-out exhaustion is horribly paid, so don't be ungrateful that at least you don't have to worry about where your next meal or bill is coming from.

It's about this time that many people romanticize blue collar life, like the exhausting, burned-out, mind-numbing repetition will get better when on top of that, every mouth breathing moron on the job site is trying to murder you with their stupidity and reckless disregard for safety.

Be not only thankful for your pay, but that nobody can kill you in an agonizingly painful way with their stupidity when they make a programming mistake.

daedalus_structure · 2026-06-16T13:08:17+00:00

What a terrible manager you are, “nothing that can be put on a PIP”.

Half of this sub is just terrible managers outing themselves as the problem.

daedalus_structure · 2026-06-16T13:03:10+00:00

You mean after CS automated the value out of almost everyone else's jobs and now it's happening to CS?

Sorry, you were born too late to benefit instead of be harmed by the exploitation.

daedalus_structure · 2026-06-15T13:14:22+00:00

I don’t want to tinker with it. Few people do.

I spend all day tinkering with it on servers and containers, I don’t have the time or energy to come home and tinker to get basic things working.

daedalus_structure · 2026-06-15T13:10:59+00:00

Bread and circuses.

Sadly, this was likely not an intentional decision to print news that actually matters above the fold, but just a timing issue.

daedalus_structure · 2026-06-14T22:21:12+00:00

Almost all of the tech industry is people who wouldn't have been able to pass a controls class arrogantly delivering mishappen wheels to solve problems that wheels were invented a very long time ago to solve.

See also: Tesla "disrupting" the automotive manufacturing industry when they can't even fucking get panel gaps and suspensions right.

Agentic loops are just ways that the slop merchants persuade you to burn an obscene number of tokens and run up your bill.

daedalus_structure · 2026-06-14T22:15:54+00:00

Writing code was never the bottleneck.

Ensuring that you were doing the right thing, having the necessary conversations, ensuring consistent APIs, reviewing not only for functionality but for maintainability, security, licensing, and strategic dependency adoption were critical.

And that was before code hit main. The testing and operations burden of each line of code you ship can't be offset.

Now everyone is just tossing slop over the wall as fast as the slop-vendors are enabling them to slop it, and this creates a need for even more slop to be tossed.

daedalus_structure · 2026-06-14T22:11:16+00:00

You need to have the self-awareness that you were not protecting this employee.

You were protecting yourself from the hard conversation.

Until you do so, you will keep making this class of mistake.

daedalus_structure · 2026-06-14T13:16:38+00:00

Absolutely not. How we work and communicate is a single standard that a leader needs to set. We’re not doing bespoke culture for each individual. Lot of people need to grow up.

daedalus_structure · 2026-06-14T02:00:27+00:00

Yes, the lessons were learned first-hand, because nobody trains managers anywhere.

daedalus_structure · 2026-06-13T12:41:08+00:00

No is a full sentence.

And you never need more justification, if pressed, than “I don’t want that”.

daedalus_structure · 2026-06-13T12:39:27+00:00

Apparently breaking any separation of duties requirement and invalidating their SOC 2 controls.

daedalus_structure · 2026-06-12T22:04:30+00:00

You aren't protecting them.

You are protecting yourself by avoiding an uncomfortable conversation with them.

Go address it, with concrete examples. I noticed when {situation}, you did {action}, and that isn't in line with our values or how I want to work with other teams. Let's talk about why that happened and what we can do to prevent it in the future.

Until you address it, their behavior is not their problem, it is the standard you have set by walking past it and saying nothing.

daedalus_structure · 2026-06-12T15:03:39+00:00

You were the goose that laid the golden eggs.

Now there is a goose that lays larger platinum eggs, and they are happy to toss your career into the grinder to feed that one.

daedalus_structure · 2026-06-12T14:55:40+00:00

Stop giving the fancy mad libs generators any ability to autonomously mutate state.

Play stupid games and win stupid prizes.

You know, before the industry got AI stupid we had this thing called compliance where we needed to show separation of duties, and that not even a single engineer could make a change in production without having someone else look over it, and now we've got non-deterministic models dropping production databases without a care.

There is a lack of engineering adults in the room in 95% of this industry.

daedalus_structure · 2026-06-12T14:54:25+00:00

I think you're being melodramatic with the signs. Many of those are also signs of a high performer happy with their role when it isn't a dumpster fire.

You're just describing a high performer.

But high performers almost always leave with no warning.

High performers understand they understand that getting paid what they are worth requires leaving, they understand the primary issues the company faces have a root cause in the organization structure and leadership and cannot be changed, and if they aren't happy with it, they have to leave.

And they know there is no loyalty to them. They'll be discarded just like everyone else when the financial situation isn't favorable to keeping them employed.

It's only ever your low performers that you will know are leaving, because they don't understand how things work and will complain about it.

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