So, I applied for a job. People tend *not* to answer my applications, probably because my resume very clearly states I implemented malloc in fasm, among other things.

I imagine them going like "Sir, this is a Wendy's", or rather "we're looking for a 10X rockstar AnalScript ZAZQUACH mongoose-deus puffery quarter-stack developer". Fair enough, I certainly don't fit that bill.

But this time I not only got an answer, the guy went like "I'm impressed". Is this... recognition? From a human? What?

Fellas, I cannot process this emotion. Being frank, it's not even about the job. But willfully going against the idiocy of the industry standard, and then seeing that utterly deranged move actually amounting to something -- no matter how small -- is quite uncanny.

And of fucking course, it's a Perl job. Figures. Great minds think alike.

Here's an idea: don't proclaim you've finished a feature (apparently in a silo) to leadership and then refuse to deliver it to the code repo.

Like, I totally get it, you used a fancy LLM and it spat out something that looks reasonable at a glance, but aren't sure because your environment wasn't actually set up for local testing (ie never actually run). But still, you could commit whatever garbage was spit out and have someone look at (or, more likely, completely re-write) it, but Nah, puffery is better than delivery I guess.