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Koushirou said:
I've also never been fired before. Getting a severance package contingent on the separation agreement, blah blah blah. I'm assuming it'd be prudent to have a lawyer check over this before signing anything? I'm far too stupid for legalese.
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They're usually really straightforward and you're just agreeing not to disparage them in return for severance.

PM me the agreement I'm happy to look at it quickly for you.
 
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And you pretty much need to have Remote due to your location at the moment? I know Remote work is much harder to find now and if you're not going for a Senior role you pretty much wont be offered it.
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Would be preferred, but I am still an hour away from DC, so if I gotta commute, then I guess I gotta commute.
 
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Another thing I have discovered in the current year environment is that if you are the one white dude who snuck in the door and are even remotely good, you are mostly bulletproof. Reason being is many companies have so many DEI hires who checked a box while having zero skill (or H1B1 Poo Invaders) that you basically are there to support the existence of the oxygen thieves in the department. Cutting the one guy producing means exposing the diversity hires to scrutiny. That developer diversity chart is real.
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literally me and another guy loool
 
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I am as antisocial as it gets in my own opinion. But being at home for YEARS eventually fucks with your head man. At this point I wouldn't even say no to a hybrid thing.
 
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I am as antisocial as it gets in my own opinion. But being at home for YEARS eventually fucks with your head man. At this point I wouldn't even say no to a hybrid thing.
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Maybe. But there's a whole lot to commuting that I don't miss. I work at a pretty small company, so there's very little chaff. As in, most people are at the very least competent. The need for "just look at my screen" or in person meetings isn't prevalent
 
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My entire company was remote, save for a little office here and there, so return to office was never a threat there. Sucks.
 
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I would second the advice of searching LinkedIn but not applying through it. Go directly to the company website.

Were you in a cleared gov type role? If so should be cake to find something.

If not - I know gov contracting isn't anyone's first choice lol, but should be lots of opportunity in the NOVA/DC area. There are lots of public trust roles that anyone can get. Check out Booz, GDIT, Peraton, CACI or any of the big boys. It can always be a gap filler while you continue searching.
 
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Look for a state level gov job if you can. Fair pay, remote work, and fairly stable. Not the ideal thing, but it can keep the lights on while you hunt for the long term gig you really want. As woman who is not a drama bomb there are going to be some options open to you that most of us don't have. Leverage that shit, at least short term. Indeed and Monster seem to be the best places to look for remote gigs without having to deal with a ton of Poos at the moment, but that can change fast. Direct applying (or a good head hunter) is always the best course. Just avoid anything where there is a Poo in the mix because they have two goals: Either to make you fail so another Poo gets the job or failing that fuck you over on the percentage. Remote stuff is still out there, but you do need to put in the elbow grease to find it.
 
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You are using Cursor AI incorrectly...

🗞️I recently shipped a follow-up blog post to this one; this post remains true. You'll need to know this to be able to drive the N-factor of weeks of co-worker output in hours technique as detailed at https://ghuntley.com/specs I'm hesitant to give this advice away for free,
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Good article about AI. I simp for Cursor hard as its really the best AI tool I have used. By far. That is if you're writing code directly. Microsoft for example needs their integrated AI to be at the level Cursor is now.

Like you fire up a MS application or even Azure portal. Just tell it "I need you to make this Azure object (like a Logic App or something) and it needs to be connected to X service and have 3 steps to do Y and Z create this stub for me." Today none of their shit does that.
 
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TomServo said:
Are you being pushed hard on mcp?
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Big time. The database one I find useful but its marginally useful. Even when the agent can run its own queries and read the results it needs specific rules on what to do with it, and lots of datasets are wildly different so it becomes less useful.

What HAS been useful is creating the in-project rules for the Agent and have whatever you build update the rules as you go through it. Making the AI better in that context.
 
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I forked this one and made it read only because the idea of an AI Agent that can actually execute DML in any environment terrifies me.

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GitHub - datawiz168/mcp-snowflake-service: MCP server implementation for Snowflake integration

MCP server implementation for Snowflake integration - datawiz168/mcp-snowflake-service
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My stress level the last two weeks is off the charts. My team and our internal pentester defensive threat hunters have been working overtime on this AI shit MCP included.

Our prisma missed a dev deploying a llm with public access. Someone deployed deepseek locally. Etc
 
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Deathwing said:
Maybe. But there's a whole lot to commuting that I don't miss.
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This. It wasn't too bad during China Virus because nobody was on the road. Now that shit is "normal" again, it fucking infuriates me that I lose roughly 10 hours of my life every week just sitting in a car.
 
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