I didn't move from FAANG, but a very similar equivalent in my home country. I saw people "golden handcuffed" all the time, and the honest truth is that you have to decide what's more important to you - spending cash on vacuous bullshit and being unhappy at work, or not dreading every monday. You can still find places that pay well, and you don't have to sacrifice your life to them. The big thing is learning to live within your means - or, simply, to be able to say "no" to the little kid inside you who wants everything.

> The big thing is learning to live within your means

I'd say it's more "learning to live within the means of a non-FAANG person."

My FAANG colleagues spending 4x what I was on their mortgages in the Bay Area were also technically living within their means, but it also meant they had no choice but to stay handcuffed.

> My FAANG colleagues spending 4x what I was on their mortgages in the Bay Area were also technically living within their means, but it also meant they had no choice but to stay handcuffed.

That is the problem. It is about how much you are keeping after taxes. If >75 of that is going to bills, mortgages, cars and the stock drops, then you are essentially keeping far less and you'll find yourself stuck in your job.

Now that AI is everywhere, the loss of their job means a ~5 month runway (If on H-1B you have 2 months) is the reason why folks in the Bay Area at FAANG are terrified of leaving their jobs and find themselves handcuffed.

>> spending cash on vacuous bullshit and being unhappy at work ...

I don't find anything incorrect in your response per se but I hope those weren't your assumptions about my situation and I didn't specify the details either. I've lived within my means, spend only for comfortable leisure travel, no mortgages; otherwise I wouldn't have achieved FIRE.

Neither am I sacrificing due to work as it's a good team with good WLB, it's just that I'm no longer excited by the work without dreading the Mondays. So as I mentioned in another response it's very likely that I'm actually scared of leaving this comfort level.

I hate it.

Please do use it in a crowded office or coffee shop. The gene pool needs some chlorine.

hahah use it with headphones, it's cute!

What even is the point of a limit if it's just going to auto-raise? Now you can end up in the situation of owing that. Perhaps you forget that the agent is running in the background somewhere for a while. Or perhaps you end up with a vulnerable dependency that does that for you.

Limits are there to prevent unwanted behaviors, either accidental or malicious.

I did - had to log in again to comment, thought it was a little odd, but eh, I see that the user cookie is only set for a year.

I hadn’t checked how long the cookie is set for yet. But since I got logged out from both devices on the same day, I figured it can’t be that. I haven’t had this tablet for too long, and I think I must have signed in just 2-3 months ago. Thanks for your response!

Do statistics exist about active users?

I don't see the need (or indeed any point) of ai in this app as per the stated functions. Pity a useful app is just a cover for enshittification.

it's not so much a corporate nightmare as a personal one.

corporations will simply legislate not to use it; people who think this is an easy solve for becoming proficient with linux will use it and fail in myriad ways, including:

- upstream ai is offline / dead / rate limited. You can't use your machine now

- upstream ai hallucinates - you have no more / now

- upstream ai is haxed - you have everything, but it's working for someone else now

perhaps it's just evolution for nerds - the morons who pick this will be cleansed from the pool

oh boy, the faith levels are apparent from the start:

"I’ve been writing 99% of my code at Airbnb with LLMs. If you think this is a bold claim it means you’re doing it wrong."

no, son, I can just tell you that you're "writing" inconsequential code, and it's likely going to come back to bite you; I use claude regularly, and claude is probably one of the least-shit ones, and I have to push back _a lot_ because it quite often completely and utterly loses the plot. I continue to use it for the cases where it doesn't, so it's a bit of a gamble, but often pays off. Unless, of course, everything is down, or half-down, like it was on Friday, when I just gave up asking Claude for anything after a bit - there was no point.

I'm glad, for her, that she got what she wanted.

Everyone is all for self-determination until that self-determination counters their own wants / beliefs. I'm only still here because I have responsibilities to fulfill. At least I got what I chose.

Another turd slides out of the dhh hole.

I won't even bother read this time.