Post #1365017
2026-02-06 17:40 UTC
Another day, another company rejecting me for failing to perfectly dance like somebody who already had 100% expertise in their problem domain in a one hour conversation.
Love it. This isn't high standards. This is a company just wasting people's time when they already know who they want.
I went ahead and burned the bridge because both of how unreasonable the feedback was and because of signal that I got that the executive team is turning toxic in the same way as the team at 1Password did over the last few years. If I'm getting into that situation, it's going to be with a massive huge company that has well-established patterns.
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@savanni@hachyderm.io 2026-02-06 17:52
Anyway, I think I'm going to go all-in on Cluade code. It's effectively unavoidable these days, it's sometimes very good at resolving extremely tedious or nitpicky problems, and it still can't do architectural work. It's unethical as hell and it's certainly going to score me a lot of points for The Bad Place. But I have to keep putting food on the table between now and the *maybe* time in the future that the AI companies collapse.
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@Canageek@wandering.shop 2026-02-06 17:54
@savanni Dammit, I guess I should get an exit strategy for using 1Password since every time I've heard of a team turning toxic like that, the product they may turning to crap usually follows shortly after :(