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Worked for famous Japanese data platform for a few years. The Japanese engineers were collegial but some who didn't come in to the office were actually Hikikomori focused on very narrow things and were very nitpicky about details that wouldn't have ultimately mattered. Those that came into the Tokyo office lived to work and I saw people regularly sleeping at their desk after having stayed out all night for obligatory whiskey outing with colleagues and arriving at the office at 6 am as expected. The San Fran office was the opposite, very sloppy standards people, getting in at noon and staying up late to meet deadlines. The impedence mismatch between the two environments was almost unbearable.

You are citing negative metrics. The reality is that companies only care about positive metrics: increase marginal revenue by 30%

That's regardless of the lip service they pay to cost cutting or risk reduction. It will only get worse, in the AI economy it's all about growth.

Gemini 3.1 Pro 5 months ago

Ok, why don't you work on getting 3.0 out of preview first? 10 min response time is pretty heinous

I don't think this argument makes much sense. If you are running down hill towards a cliff then saying that adding a cart to speed up the process doesn't give the cart moral blameworthiness is an unhelpful observation. You can still chose to stop running down the hill or to not get on the cart.

I had the same problem. My Claude md eventually gets forgotten and it forgets best practices that I put in there. I've switched to using hooks that run it through a variety of things like requiring testing. That seems to work better than Claude md because it has to run the hook every time it makes changes.

Why don't you focus on automating your CEO's job, a comparatively easy task, rather than automating your fellow engineer's jobs?

But this way the developers can spend all their time working on the truly interesting problems, like how to file for unemployment.

Keep blowing this horn. At the end of the day your manager and theirs all the way up to the CTO will still have no clue about the engineering side and you are going to have to make up the difference. It's the sad world we live in.