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Usage Reset Joy, Then the Five-Hour Cap Returns
AI ML DeveloperExperience DX DeveloperProductivity

Usage Reset Joy, Then the Five-Hour Cap Returns

Chatgpt AIAssistants
Unity 6 Upgrade Meets a Screaming Console
GameDev Debugging Troubleshooting Bugs

Unity 6 Upgrade Meets a Screaming Console

Unity GameDevelopment
Can You Work Under Pressure? Three Months Later
Interviews Deadlines OnCall ProductionIssues

Can You Work Under Pressure? Three Months Later

TechnicalInterviews DeadlinePressure
Hard Work Opens the Psychiatrist’s Door
MentalHealth CorporateCulture DeveloperProductivity

Hard Work Opens the Psychiatrist’s Door

DeveloperBurnout MentalHealthInTech
The Engine’s Right Door
Last Month’s Essential Model Is Today’s Trash
AI ML IndustryTrends Hype DeveloperExperience DX

Last Month’s Essential Model Is Today’s Trash

Anthropic Claude
The New Favorite Toy
Frontier Research Meets the Enterprise Revenue Plan
AI ML CorporateCulture Enterprise

Frontier Research Meets the Enterprise Revenue Plan

Anthropic Openai
The Rocket Has Sponsors
Divine Trials of Vibe-Coded Revenue
AI ML IndustryTrends Hype Entrepreneurship

Divine Trials of Vibe-Coded Revenue

AIAssistants AITools
The Magic Lemonade Stand
Engineering Memes Were the Orientation Manual
Learning Juniors DevCommunities

Engineering Memes Were the Orientation Manual

StudentLife EngineeringHumor
The Funny Road Sign
Game Jam Energy Versus Hackathon Reality
GameDev DevCommunities CorporateCulture

Game Jam Energy Versus Hackathon Reality

GameDevelopment CodingMarathon
Fort Versus Sales Booth
AI Turns One Coding Task Into Phase One
AI ML ProjectManagement Deadlines

AI Turns One Coding Task Into Phase One

AI EffortEstimation
The Two-Week Sandwich
Premium Codex Meets the Zero-Revenue Business Model
AI ML Entrepreneurship DeveloperProductivity

Premium Codex Meets the Zero-Revenue Business Model

SelfDeprecatingHumor AITools
The Empty Lemonade Stand
Core AI Means Labeling Data
AI ML CorporateCulture DataScience

Core AI Means Labeling Data

AI MachineLearning
Fancy Robot Homework
Simple Change Meets Tech Debt
TechDebt Refactoring CodeQuality

Simple Change Meets Tech Debt

TechnicalDebt RefactoringNeeded
The Tiny Fix Trap
Babe You Barely Touched Your Claude Code Today, Are You OK?
AI ML DeveloperProductivity DevCommunities

Babe You Barely Touched Your Claude Code Today, Are You OK?

AIAssistants AITools
CS Degree Entitlement vs Industry Reality: The NPC Meme
Career HR Juniors Interviews

CS Degree Entitlement vs Industry Reality: The NPC Meme

JuniorVsSenior ComputerScienceEducation
Just About to Migrate: The Eternal Legacy Framework Migration Promise
LegacySystems Modernization Frameworks

Just About to Migrate: The Eternal Legacy Framework Migration Promise

LegacyCode LegacyRefactoring
AI Researcher Forced at Gunpoint to Build Goonbot Instead of Superintelligence
AI ML CorporateCulture Career HR

AI Researcher Forced at Gunpoint to Build Goonbot Instead of Superintelligence

AIHypeVsReality CareerExpectations
Just Do Your Chores
The Pinnacle of Unoptimized Game Development
GameDev Performance Hardware

The Pinnacle of Unoptimized Game Development

GameDevelopment GameEngine
Shiny but Slow
Frontier Models Need Boring Labels
AI ML DataEngineering Career HR

Frontier Models Need Boring Labels

AI MachineLearning
Fancy Robot Homework
The Senior Dev's Jedi Mind Trick for Legacy System Assignments
LegacySystems Career HR Management PMs

The Senior Dev's Jedi Mind Trick for Legacy System Assignments

LegacyCode TechnicalDebt
Tricked into Chores
Growing Into the Computer Person
Career HR DeveloperExperience DX MentalHealth

Growing Into the Computer Person

CareerReflection DeveloperExpectationsVsReality
Not The Costume
The Brutal Reality of Learning Game Development, Two Tutorials In
Learning GameDev Juniors

The Brutal Reality of Learning Game Development, Two Tutorials In

DeveloperHumor DeveloperExpectationsVsReality
Biting Off More Than You Can Code
Where Are the Flying Cars? Calvin Rants About Overhyped Future Technology
IndustryTrends Hype TechHistory

Where Are the Flying Cars? Calvin Rants About Overhyped Future Technology

TechHumor TechHypeCycle
Where’s My Robot Butler?
The Simple Path Promised by the README vs. the Obstacle Course of Reality
Documentation BuildSystems CICD Dependencies

The Simple Path Promised by the README vs. the Obstacle Course of Reality

Documentation BuildProcess
No Walk in the Park
The Myth of Pixel-Perfect Design
Frontend Stakeholders Clients UX UI

The Myth of Pixel-Perfect Design

DeveloperHumor DeveloperExpectationsVsReality
Not Like the Picture
Modernizing a Legacy System
LegacySystems Modernization TechDebt

Modernizing a Legacy System

DeveloperExpectationsVsReality Career
Excel Always Wins
When the program follows specs but still feels completely wrong
Bugs Debugging Troubleshooting

When the program follows specs but still feels completely wrong

DeveloperHumor DebuggingFrustration
The Literal Genie
The Elusive Goal of Code Satisfaction
CodeQuality Juniors Career HR

The Elusive Goal of Code Satisfaction

DeveloperHumor DeveloperReality
The Never-Ending Improvement
The Salary Hype Mismatch
Career HR DevCommunities CorporateCulture

The Salary Hype Mismatch

CareerExpectations DeveloperExpectationsVsReality
The Fancy Job Story
The Brutal Reality of a Computer Science Degree
CS Fundamentals Learning Juniors

The Brutal Reality of a Computer Science Degree

CSFundamentals ComputerScienceEducation
Vegetables Before Dessert