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actually, be exactly like bill. boss wants slop, boss gets slop.
boss wants incomprehensible buggy code? that's right, boss gets incomprehensible buggy code.
Be sure to ask Claude to remove all comments, tests, and dry runs, then ask if there's a good way you can make the code more complicated without increasing runtime more than 40%.
Sorry, you were hired as a prompt engineer, your prompt wasn't good enough to make perfect code, so you are fired
Nah. A bunch of llm code review agents say that produced code is of high quality, fire anyone who said it would have taken for them to implement same functionality more time than I have spent
That's only fine as long as there aren't coworkers who have to fix all that shit
you mean by unionizing right?
Not if boss wants my name (and thus responsibility) on it.
i'm losing a job, they are hopefully losing a business.