zonethundery

No doubt the headline's claim is true, but Claude just wrote a working MCP serving up the last 10 years of my employer's work product. For $13 in api credits.

While technically capable of building it on my own, development is not my day job and there are enough dumb parts of the problem my p(success) hand-writing it would have been abysmal.

With rose-tinted glasses on, maybe LLM's exponentially expand the amount of software written and the net societal benefit of technology.

It is too bad Erik Naggum did not live to see the AI era.

I think the responses to your comment show the whirlwind of 'wtf?' confronting any programmer contemplating front end development for the first time.

What you wrote is probably true (and the one "see how far you can get in react only" comment is probably a decent path, but the landscape is overwhelming.

1- It's PERA that changes the alice/mayo test. PREVAIL is the old STRONGER Patents act that is introduced every Congress.

2- Yeah, the one 'reasonable' complaint of IPR critics is the different evidentiary bar for litigation vs IPR.

IANAL but it's difficult to find a member of the patent bar outside of pharma/npe's that supports either bill.

some large contracting firms will do corp-to-corp, but most of the clients still want a firewall between them and your alleged IC classification.

The rule does not implement the ABC test from California. Indeed, the DOL has gone on at length about why it believes it cannot do that.

Unlike the Cal Supreme Court decision in Dynamex and the subsequent AB5 legislation, which _presumes_ a worker is an employee unless their work passes each prong of the ABC test, DOL still has the burden of proof under this rule.

Your biggest risk was actually the PRO Act, and it will never pass.

And if you have multiple clients who have limited control over how you do your work, you're a bona fide independent supplier anyway.

Have to see the final text, of course, but open source models apparently got some breaks in the final agreement last Friday.

Unfortunately rational narrow bills that benefit ordinary citizens rarely make it out of committee. But it _is_ nice to see the effort.

I hear you, and have been in similar situations with an extra zero on the figure.

At the end of the day, the value wasn't in the memo itself but rather in making the person who asked you for it look competent to their boss ("yes, this agenda item is covered, we are ready for the meeting").

I make no normative judgment on whether or not that is bullshit.

Biden's EO on cyber [0] mandates the agencies move to multifactor auth and zero trust architecture. Requirements on agencies flow through to their contractors, and eventually to the industries they regulate. When most consumer banks don't even do real 2FA (miss me with SMS pls), the TAM is yuuuge.

When the EO came out there were at least five publicly traded identity companies of any size: Okta, CyberArk, Sailpoint, Ping, Forgerock. Thoma Bravo subsequently bought Sailpoint, Ping, and Forgerock at meaningful premiums (~50%). VCs notice things like this.

[0] https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-action...

It's a picks/shovels play in PE-land. They really like tools being successfully sold into .gov.

The target for the communication is investors. I read it to say "Price in the costs for a garden variety data breach, but not a CPRA-specific class action."

I did this for a career change, and it was worth it, but the adjustment period was extremely long (4-6x).

Financially it was okay (still painful; 20% cut + move to vhcol area), but I underestimated how much it would grate to _not matter_. I had grown accustomed to a certain level of deference and respect that was not available in the new role, and in fact my willingness to move "down" was viewed with some suspicion.

People will (almost) always assume you "couldn't cut it" in the old role (or had a mental health crisis or something), and higher-ranked people in the new job will rightly look at you as a potential threat from below.

Good luck. Moving back to IC can be good for some people, but I agree with the other poster that "self sabotage" is a phrase that suggests this may not be right for you.

Usenet is definitely the answer. Old school but it works and its inaccessibility relative to torrents keeps it out of "easy-ish target" territory for IP enforcers.

Thank you for your comments. I don't interact with "not of the world" folks much but am always glad when it happens.

I'm 10 years sober. That sick and tired feeling is your body trying to repair itself. It will go faster if you quit entirely. There's a lot of good writing on the process, there's a good "pink fog" bump a few weeks in, and then its hard for a few months (ymmv, everybody's different etc. etc.).

As another poster said, it's likely that you haven't done any long term damage YET. But do consider stopping entirely.

Don't look for an easier job. At 40 it's somewhat normal to be outperformed by younger people until your wisdom/experience kicks in, but that may not happen unless you stop completely.

Good luck. You've taken the hardest step of acknowledging you have a problem.

Like other posters, I think there are other things going on here. Good on you for doing the work in therapy. Fix (or make serious progress on) those things before bringing a child into this world.

It isn't too late, biologically speaking, and wont be for a few years yet. In VHCOL coastal cities it is not unusual at all for couples to have first children at your age or a little later. But if you're burnt out at your job and having panic attacks walking by playgrounds you aint ready.

Thank you so much for JQ. It has been my secret weapon in more than one instance.

Have similar feelings about docker. LXD containers through a bridged interface fit my mental model/use case.

I don't think the US needs a CBDC. Availability at the retail level will suck deposits out of the commercial banking system. The Fed has some FOMO but I anticipate any CBDC to be more of a settlement tool than something like e-cny.

Tech policy, former regulator, can code in anger

Location: DC

Remote: Open to it

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: CL, Python, Postgresql (all somewhat stale)

Resume: Forward-looking policy evaluation on 50+ tech buyouts and growth rounds across fintech, adtech, b2b platforms and crypto. Extensive publication on same issues for institutional investors. Former govt agency, consumer bank (analytics), and software development experience. The latter was focused on billing systems for [de]regulated industries.

Former software developers with government experience and significant exposure to HF/PE are rare. Let's talk if this could be a fit for your firm.

email: zonethundery [at] mail.com

Nah. Biglaw associates start @ 215k [0]. A crushing life though, according to most of my acquaintances in the field.

[0] https://www.biglawinvestor.com/biglaw-salary-scale/

wfh attorneys are very heavy users of black toner cartridges

I have been happy with the OKI 332 w/ a duplexer. Plugs into ethernet, if all else fails you can drop a file to the printer with your browser.

Thanks for this. I hadn't considered the "total liberty" argument before. Congrats on all your successes.

They switched this off for everyone at some point. Call customer service and they'll turn it back on.

That's not how executive orders work.

I have done this a few times. Usually along the lines of "Hey i like it here and I've done good work, but this is out of whack." 35%+ initial bump and usually accelerates further raises. This pattern suggests I'm terrible at negotiating initial offers but decent at navigating once in the door.

Agree, but then one is completely dependent on the manager being a thoughtful participant in the corporate meta game. The employee asking makes it _easier_ for the manager to advocate on their behalf.

If it gets discussed among management it's because the person already has a reputation as a troublemaker. The salary demand (in that case) is just icing on the proverbial cake.