It takes a while to realize you're being gaslit.

Such rules are often not enforced.

In my experience, it's often up to the people in the neighborhood to decide. One of my neighbors down the street a number of years ago was militant about it. Code Enforcement does not routinely drive our streets looking for violations, but if someone blocked a sidewalk, parked facing the wrong way on the street, etc, Code Enforcement would magically appear to give them a ticket. Pretty sure this neighbor had them on speed dial.

I am sure social networks (the non tech kind) help here. Maybe they both play golf or coach each other's kids.

The entire DOGE program was an exercise in vilifiaction.

See also HP. Pretty much only Costco left.

This is where PBCs (Public Benefit Companies) and B-Corps may have a role to play. Something like that seems necessary to enable both (A) sufficient profitability to support innovation and viability in a capitalist society and (B) consideration of the public good. Traditional public companies aren't just disincentivized from caring about externalities, they're legally required to maximize shareholder profits, full stop. Which IMHO is a big part of the reason companies ~always become "evil".

The company I currently work for is both a B-Corp and an employee-owned trust. The difference in culture, attitude and behaviour to the previous place I worked at, which only cared about quarterly results is stark.

Costco is such a strange and stark case standing in opposition to this general rule. From everything I hear, I can only gather that the reason is because of extremely experienced and level-headed executive staff.

This field is chock full of people using terms incorrectly, defining new words for things that already had well known names, overloading terms already in use. E.g. shard vs partition. TUI which already meant "telephony user interface ". "Client" to mean "server" in blockchain.

Where "everyday" means security from what kind of attacker?

In the language of marketing (in the USA at least) the word "unlimited" means "limited".

Not a universal view: Claude has added all the fun back into my job.

I am having fun as well. Using AI tools in a good and productive way is definitely a skill that is not a given, you have to learn it too.

Many engineers want nothing more than to eventually become managers. So this is not surprising. But your job is not what it was before.

Not really managers, I would put the new role more in the senior engineer / architect category. Those still have to deal with deeply technical things like design, architecture, problem decomposition, research, domain expertise, code review, collaborating with technical peers -- all of which (people) managers don't typically do.

If you ever wanted to climb the senior technical ladder, this is now the quickest way to experience it. Except instead of other people you get to work with agents which, while a very different experience, requires largely the same skills.

So yes, your job is not what it was before, but with career growth it typically was not anyway.

... but a very common one. There are always exceptions to every rule

Oh yeah? The way that you feel is the norm, and if anyone feels differently, they’re the exception? And that’s just based on… vibes?

Like we did for electronic voting?