Nope. 100% vibe coded. The brand is DeValt. It may or may not come with a frayed power cord wrapped in electrical tape. As long as you stay away from any water source, it'll be fine.
Just do the work at your body's natural pace. Your body will tell you when it's tired, when it's ready to focus, and when it's excited to work.
As with everything, the problem is hubris and impatience. So eager to prove god-like status, you stumble and fall, posting ephemeral think pieces about your "journey" on social media. Reading LinkedIn is the closest I've ever got to thinking "maybe asylums would be okay with a few reforms..."
My favorite (which I think/hope was a joke) was the guy cooking chicken breast in his hotel coffee maker to "show his commitment to the company" and how hard he was willing to grind.
Cooking with hotel coffee makers during a grind is a long standing tradition. Usually it's ramen or canned food, though.
For better or worse, this is becoming more difficult as the standard coffee maker in rooms these days is a one-cup-at-a-time model. So you need your own container, or you'll have to use the ice bucket (if they have one).
A chicken breast is a bit far fetched, but I could see it happening with someone who was craving chicken at an odd hour.
If they really believe their AI is that good and security practices and tooling that solid, why can't they automatically flag this stuff? I am sure they can, but once flagged a human has to check and that seems costly?
Career-limiting perhaps (if expressing normal human emotion is a minus inside of an organization, it may be time to bail) but some of the best minds I've met/observed were absolute curmudgeons (with purpose—they were properly bothered by a problem and refused to go along with the "sweep it under the rug" behavior).
Sure, I've dealt with plenty of assholes, too, but the grumps are usually just tired of their valid insight being ignored by more foolish, orthogonally incentivized types (read: "playing the game" not "making it work well").
We've all tolerated the grumpy genius at some point in our careers. Nevertheless, most of us would prefer to work with a person who's both smart and kind over someone who's smart and curmudgeonly. It is possible to be both smart and kind, and I've had the pleasure of working with such people.
Assholes can sap an organization's strength faster than any productive value their intelligence can provide. I'm not suggesting the author is an asshole, though; there's not enough evidence from this post.
This only happens because the software industry has fallen into the Religion of Speed. I see it constantly: justified corner-cutting, rushing shit out the door, and always loading up another feature/project/whatever with absolutely zero self-awareness. AI is just an amplifier for bad behavior that was already causing chaos.
What's not being said here but should be: discipline matters. It's part of being a professional and always precedes someone who can ship code that "just works."
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