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Let me spell out the loophole: Just don't use packaging. Redesign your product so it comes in a sturdy container that makes it integral part of the product itself and completely side steps the obligations here.

I said "with" and not "at". I was tasked with doing interviews and reshaping the interview process as multiple companies within the last 18 months through fractional roles, consulting and co-founding.

It would be so much better if PG was not forced to write this essay. Everyone and that includes AOC has a right to free speech, but I believe that mandatory platform context would really help the internet. For example, here:

"Earning your fruits of labor morally as opposed to the mere market value of labor and capital is a concept derived from Karl Marx' Theory of Alienation. More than 15 million people have died under socialist rule from starvation alone."

Not wrong. But my statement is true across organizations I have worked with in the past year, several of them not AI-native.

Just trying to fix the misunderstanding: I am not saying that you will have a literal 25 seconds meeting with your boss's boss. I am just making a math argument taking typical orgchart ratios.

So let me take this a step further. You want to meet your boss' boss for 10 minutes to present them something. 10 minutes of his time are an equivalent of more than 20 hours of your time. So if your initial idea was to "take maybe 1-2h" to prepare for this -> You are underprepared by at least one order of magnitude.

Often the hiring manager will have the person to be hired somewhere in his report chain. So if a person can't effectively communicate and can't properly respond to a "I only have 2 minutes, shoot", then I am getting a future liability into the company that will slow down all future communications.

I much rather prefer someone who needs 3 seconds to triage a question and tell me: "This is X, I know this, here is the solution" or "This is Y, I don't know it, but I will get back to you within 24h".

I do absolutely not want a "Well let's think jointly about this for a couple of minutes". There is no jointly with your boss. Let's do a some math of a 1:12 manager to direct report ratio. That means for every hour you have, your boss only has 5 minutes. And if you talk to your boss' boss, they have 25 seconds for every of your hours.

True, but please don't give job seekers false hope with this statement. I commonly see 60 - 180 applicants for one open position. Good luck finding a hiring manager who wants to take a bet instead of going with proven experience.

I think upskilling is the right move in this environment and it is dead simple: Invest a couple of days to show initiative, learn agents yourself and be able to speak from true experience.

Replying as a hiring manager since this might help other post-grad job seekers:

- Any long-winded answer to a question is immediate out and has been for years.

- Not having used agents and not being able to comment on what to do and what not to do with them is immediate out since early this year.

Just curious: How do you solve the problem of matching socks?

Saving Bitcoin | Cryptographic Engineer & Protocol Engineer | Remote (global)

Given the latest quantum algorithmic advances by Google, Bitcoin is expected to be fully broken by 2029. In this position you will design post-quantum cryptography that goes beyond the BIP-360 stopgap to fully solve the quantum threat on Bitcoin and transition it safely into the post quantum age.

Please describe your cryptographic experience, your Bitcoin experience and the flavor of PQ-crypto that you believe can save BTC. Apply to: savingbitcoin@pindush.net

(burner address for spam prevention, expect answers from a different email)

That was great fun, an interactive refresher on my EE studies. Thank you so much for creating it.

If anybody can create something similarly interactive, educational and hands-on for microbiology or robotics, I am happy to sponsor your cost.

Small & Stealthy | Flutter Developer | REMOTE (Global) | Contractor

We are building mobile products with a small, fast team and want a Flutter developer who is unusually strong at directing AI-driven software delivery. This is not a traditional "write the code yourself" role. We want someone who can decompose product and technical work clearly, set up coding agents and containerized environments so they can run independently, let them execute with very wide autonomy, and then use AI again to review, challenge, and validate the resulting commits. The standard here is technical excellence without manual coding as the primary lever. 100x engineering is the norm.

You might be a fit if you:

- are deeply experienced with Flutter and mobile product development

- are comfortable leveraging AI agents to plan, implement, test, and commit code with minimal guardrails

- can use AI-based review workflows to inspect commits, spot regressions, and maintain quality without doing line-by-line manual coding yourself

- have strong product and engineering judgment, and can tell when an AI-generated solution is structurally right vs. superficially plausible

- own and regularly use both a physical Android device and a physical iPhone/iPad for live app testing

- are familiar with provisioning, signing, installing, debugging, and validating Flutter apps on real devices, not just simulators

We care a lot about velocity, correctness, and taste. We are specifically looking for someone who can treat AI as the execution layer while still owning architecture, quality, release readiness, and real-device validation.

You can find us at: flutterdev@pindush.net (Burner for spam prevention. Will answer from different address)

I read in a couple of comments that you are worried about "bothering people". To be honest, don't worry about it, you can attribute sufficient life skills to others to simply tell you (verbally or non-verbally) in case they feel bothered.

Whole-heartedly dislike the article. Again a form of being atypical neurologically is framed as a pathology. "You are insufficiently clingy to be a good human, and the reason is your childhood trauma".