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Can you expand on why this is your biggest worry?

We just update PHP from 5.6 to 8.5 lolol it's been delayed for years, done in a day with QA...

The vibe coders on my team are always adding duplicate methods, huge dependencies for one method from the library, or tests that are so over engineered they are flaky and unreliable. Of course it "works", but there is still the cost of resources they don't ever consider. Maybe some day they won't need to, but for now they still do.

Self hosted Atuin would do this for you too. Unless you don't want the added tooling/complexity

Wife is ER nurse, she goes through a pair of Hokas every 3-6 months.

I am going to take my 401k and open up a coffee or bike shop. If I am going to be broke, might as well enjoy what I do.

My first real job was in McKinney, sad to hear they are all dead.

Yes to all, but it's just me responsible for monitoring performance/cost. I either push back or fix it myself, but I am behind. So this is an attempt to give/push more ownership to the teams.

Startups have limited resources, we prioritize the best we can. As a staff engineer it's my responsibility to bring this to my company, but it's not an overnight process.

It's not the whole culture and product, it's specific teams that do it. And trying to push back on teams that are "producing" is not a simple task.

This 100%. I just requested a hackathon for performance improvement (might be wasted effort).

We are pushing tons of code and now our CPU usage has grown exponentially over the past year because the bad engineers just ship whatever Claude gives them and do not think about the consequences.

Our biggest consumer of CPU right now is HTTP connection churn because engineers are creating new clients every request we handle. If the engineers would just think for a second, push back on Claude, even Claude would tell them this is bad. But they don't... Platform engineering is now 10x harder with terrible engineers and unlimited code machines.

Don't even get me started on ffmpeg usage, engineers act like the resources are unlimited.

For my small team we are not creating our versions, we're just more likely to find a self hostable version and use an LLM to help setup in production. For us it's a middle ground between the build your own SaaS and paying $10ks. But in some instances we do still pay for the other company to own the on call.

Interested in examples of the types of scripts others collaborators wouldn't be able to use? Like scripts for PR workflows?

I would ask for references for the suicide claims, so others can assess the impact themselves. That's a very serious claim to provide without any proof, especially to a group of people who very well be going through the same thing. I am not saying it did not happen, only it's the right thing to do.

Any other engineers just living life frozen at this point. I am unable to make any life decisions because it seems like I won't have a career in the near future. I am unable to purchase a home to settle down for my family, because dad might not have a job next week. I know I am fortunate to have a job, many don't, but fuck if this career isn't the worse thing ever for my overall health and happiness.