same here, sort of. i wrote some game design docs, but it looks like actually getting started on that is going to be a bit. a friend referred my company to do some front end work for some ai solutions company. they invited me for an interview, and asked me to participate in a ~1-hour pair programming exercise to resolve a couple bugs.

the first red flag was the 'founding engineer' qualifying multiple times that he doesn't know why he's working on a front end, etc. the second red flag was when they told me it was built using cursor, and nobody knows anything about the front end. 15 minutes into the call i had documentation open on another monitor while the other guy was furiously clicking around in vscode like a professional korean starcraft player. his solution to the problem was to ask cursor to solve it. cursor introduced 2 additional bugs for the one it solved, and his solution then was to ask cursor to solve it.

i told the guy i'm going to drop from the call, explained that they had some serious problems with their reliance on ai introducing compounding fragility (i think i called it code base entropy) and their processes. explained that a 400 line code review is difficult enough, and that they were essentially creating that much to review with each ai change they implemented, but weren't actually performing the reviews, etc. then i sent an email saying thanks for your time, but the process is fucked. i got a call from one of the execs asking me for my rate and to sign a contract. inflated my rate by 22% an he immediately agreed. now i'm kicking myself in the ass for not going higher.

shut up.