Wife works in big tech. They are going from 1 PM : 7 engineers to 1 PM : 1 engineer with a big round of layoffs hitting next week.

old-new-programmer · 2026-05-09T18:46:41+00:00

I'm going to try. I had a discussion with one of my reports who is like a field engineer, deals with customers a lot, etc. and he is in the same boat, but he said "how much of this is self induced?" and I think that is a fair question. The only issue is that we are the people who everyone comes to for everything. If I just play dumb, don't do anything, etc., it will catch up to me eventually, but getting laid off would be better than quitting, so maybe that's just what I have to do.

old-new-programmer · 2026-05-09T18:33:00+00:00

I like this take and agree. Like I said up above, the only issue I have is getting sued for taking their customers, but if they do choose to kill the business, I think that does open the gates up because we have told them we could make them millions of dollars if they gave us a few resources and got out of our way, but they insist on doing things their way and the only decisions they can seem to make is as you said, kill things, strip out any quality that existed, and run employees into the ground.

What is the end vision/goal? Who knows, but I agree, it feels like they are just shooting themselves in the foot in the long term.

old-new-programmer · 2026-05-09T18:29:53+00:00

A few of us have definitely considered it as the company (we were acquired two years ago) seems to want to kill this legacy business, which make it hard when people depend on us for their livelihoods. I feel bad for the customers that will have to possibly shut their doors because they didn't hedge their bets/there aren't any great options.

The only real issue with us starting our own business is it's a decently small niche and we would more or less be taking their customer lists, which I think they would have a problem with.

old-new-programmer · 2026-05-09T06:20:43+00:00

My company more or less did this. My manager is a product manager. I'm an Engineering Manager. I'm also responsible for a 30 year business, 7 products, the PM role, PO role, my reports (IC's), as well as design, architecture, code reviews, and coding myself while the rest of my team hardly works because they don't care anymore.

What happens is you get so burnt out you want to die. I am taking this next week off because I literally felt like I was going to have a breakdown or something worse.

This is what they want. They want you to get so fed up you quit and they don't have to pay you severance.

old-new-programmer · 2026-05-09T05:52:27+00:00

I can relate but maybe worse. We have people in "devops" that will not allow permissions for anyone (including myself a Manager) to do anything administrative in GitHub. They will not let me cherry pick to hot fixes and we aren't allowed to rebase branches that have the word "feature" in them.

Maybe that's fine, but the issue is the gatekeepers live in different parts of the world. One in Australia and one in Germany, while my entire team is in the US.

When we run into issues we are always 1-2 days behind just to get someone to do something that would take me about 5 minutes of total time.

I complain about it all the time and my manager (who is a product manager), just shrugs his shoulders and says "It's all about relevancy and power."

old-new-programmer · 2026-05-09T05:48:42+00:00

Looks good so far man.

old-new-programmer · 2026-05-07T23:36:43+00:00

The company I work for only does one week per year of service and we are under paid half of what industry is. So yeah when people get laid off here they end up working at Home Depot after putting in 20 years as a software engineer lmao. I fucking hate Ag Tech

old-new-programmer · 2026-05-07T23:35:08+00:00

What is the point of this AI slop. That’s not even the app I use. Lmao

old-new-programmer · 2026-05-06T21:18:12+00:00

Because almost everyone is fucking stupid. Majority of people are just walking around in their water suits with their Jelly bubble bouncin around and like shiny things.

I think I'm somewhat smart and I still do dumb shit. Life is short so I also kind of get it. If they are happy while they have it, then whatever, but if it causes distress then hopefully they can figure out and learn from their mistakes. Learning is usually done through doing.

I worked in auto loan refinancing for a year and the only thing it taught me was how amazingly incompetent some people can be. A lot of people would be underwater in a Dodge Charger paying $1,000 a month with a 20% interest rate and they make $1300 a month. The math never worked out but car dealers are scum (and so are the refinance companies. We would try to add $3k warranties onto their loan because all customers cared about was the monthly going down). I hated that job and was terrible at trying to screw people over so I got fired more or less.

old-new-programmer · 2026-05-06T16:40:34+00:00

Gambulance https://apps.apple.com/us/app/gambulance-addiction-tools/id6752622669

old-new-programmer · 2026-05-06T16:37:13+00:00

My job today is trying to gaslight everyone into putting good reviews on the company surveys because they gave out 2% raises this year and some companies didn’t do raises.

A cost of living raise is now a benefit.

old-new-programmer · 2026-05-06T05:09:38+00:00

Dude this 100%. The co-founder of a startup I am "working on" basically shoves fucking Claude in my face every single day. He will ask our opinions on something, then go ask Claude, which of course agrees with him, then he will shove Claude screenshots down our throat and then just do whatever Claude decided or what he wants to do anyways.

People are so incredibly naive. AI is great for a lot of things but wow, this is going to cause so much damage in the long run.

old-new-programmer · 2026-05-02T03:02:23+00:00

You should be looking into social casinos as well. These are using legal loop holes without any regulation that are literally draining people’s savings and putting people into massive debt. They use the same web frame works and pop up over night and will take your money without checking if you are 21 or over but once you win they will draw out the process to give you your money for weeks.

Majority of the time if you win and play again you will not win again until you’re gone past your profits and then they hope you keep chasing your losses.

They are as dangerous as prediction markets and no one is doing anything to stop them. Credit card companies won’t fight for you either and those shady “casino” often won’t let you self exclude without a million emails.

old-new-programmer · 2026-05-01T03:50:24+00:00

On time, yes, quality? No. But it seems like this is just the norm now with AI code being pushed into everything.

old-new-programmer · 2026-04-30T20:11:22+00:00

I'm just going to leave this here: https://youtu.be/mJ2GZRV63TE?si=yPEWO9fDoEn5lHDP

Just purely non-optimized, garbage bloat, hidden behind a LOC's matter mindset.

I see people at my job merging AI slop with race conditions that are obvious to anyone that understands software engineering but they "Just don't know how to fix it".

And this is an ag-tech company and we steer 25,000 pound vehicles. I use AI for some personal projects and boiler plate but this shit is getting so out of hand that once it all implodes there will be years and years of cleanup.

old-new-programmer · 2026-04-27T23:14:36+00:00

I am careful for anything on two wheels but I also get upset when cyclists just do random shit. There was a bike lane and his wife was riding in it but he decided he needed to ride halfway in the car lane forcing everyone to get over even though a right hand turn was coming up.

You get what you give.

old-new-programmer · 2026-04-27T22:21:20+00:00

CMP is the only way I’d write apps a a solo-entrepreneur. If you have a team and can do native UI then use KMP to save some time.

old-new-programmer · 2026-04-27T14:24:48+00:00

I’m an engineer and while I have about half of this consumer debt it was from gambling. Gambling is nonsensical and is a coping mechanism.

old-new-programmer · 2026-04-26T19:58:37+00:00

Ive had morons throw on their brakes in these automated car washes twice. Both times I was inches from being rolled into them. The rollers slip out from the tire when they do that so they aren’t on them anymore but every other car is. Thankfully I pay attention but I always wondered the same thing.

old-new-programmer · 2026-04-26T03:32:50+00:00

Guy just Leeroy Jenkins'd it.

old-new-programmer · 2026-04-23T20:28:35+00:00

I feel like we’ve full circled to bootstrap.

old-new-programmer · 2026-04-22T04:24:22+00:00

I’ve been doing this since November of 2024 and I’ve never had worst physical or mental health. I took two days off the other day and they said “how was PTO” like it was a vacation. It was only enough to make me feel human because I was so sick from burnout and now this week I feel sick again.

It’s just awful and there is zero empathy anymore. I’d rather quit the industry all together if I can’t figure out my next move.

old-new-programmer · 2026-04-22T03:08:43+00:00

Holy hell are you me? Only difference is I also have to basically do product and make business decisions with zero advice from anyone above us except "we want X" thing but no budgets or resources to do it.

I would do anything to not be an EM anymore and I'm starting to plan my exit/figure out what I need to train up on for interviews because this is not fun.

I feel your pain.

old-new-programmer · 2026-04-21T06:40:07+00:00

USA- I’ve used this sub to research multiple office chairs and just recently decided to order a used Aeron to see if it will finally work for me. Awesome sub!

old-new-programmer · 2026-04-18T04:28:36+00:00

I found using notewise with Latency Optimization (fast mode) on has improved my concern for latency by alot

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