bravetraveler

Said with old-timey incredulity: "I quite enjoy the bread line, an oven at home? Could you imagine the risk/waste?"

Ignoring the warehouses and trillions, perhaps.

Doing my part for counterexamples, is twenty years a long time? Asking because despite the consensus... I'm a Principal staff member who has regularly resisted the current. This quote broadly works:

    "The standard you walk past is the standard you accept."

Sure, I've had to do terrible things due to circumstances. Continuing remained a choice.

If there's no mouse acceleration, I'm out /s

Open models exclusively on hardware I own... despite my employer both demanding 'the frontier' and providing unlimited spend/quota. Two main points:

    1: primarily for repetitive/arduous things I'm not concerned with outsourcing. Editor features on steroids, basically.
    2: testing how my lack of *tracked* token usage, but still delivering, is handled by the powers that be.

To get us on the lab gravy train, we were told results matter and how the thing is made doesn't; we'll see. Not left behind yet :)

A lot of quotas, reset timers, changed terms, and so on too through the subscription. I prefer to buy and use my tools, not adopt them as part of my lifestyle.

I've heard tell about 100% of certain types of work being ended in batches of six months. For years. Truthfully, I'm skeptical, but accuracy wasn't prioritized.

> Are you assuming these folks are ... or customers are sharing via word of mouth?

Seems fair to me (interjecting: not the parent poster). I rent, too, but have heard countless conversations along these lines among Proper Adults.

Often grown-up #1 complaining about their latest project and grown-up #2 offering someone that served them well in the past. Point being, bad experiences are both so common and costly... that those who are good tend to stand out and stay busy. IME, those listings or the phone book are most suitable when you don't have a relationship to leverage (effectively rolling the dice).