Listen, if you are a software engineer being brought back to a company or organization you were laid off from to fix their AI vibe coded mess, you have to do me a favor: please, charge them so much. Just so, so much. The only way they'll learn anything is if you make their shareholders cry.
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@AbandonedAmerica they will contract Indians for a third for a month and then kick them out.
@AbandonedAmerica Just say "LMAO, NOPE!", and look for a job elsewhere.
These are the same crackhouse tech companies that repetedly lay off their employees in mass and then rehire them in mass in order to game their stock price. They did this many of times before, only this time, they AI-washed their routine layoffs.
If you reclaim the job, they'll likely lay you off and waste your time again. These kinds of companies do not provide reliable job security.
@AbandonedAmerica *this*, 100 times. I normally include a clause in all my contracts that if I find out significant portions of your code were AI generated, my rate goes up times 5. Like you said, otherwise nobody learns from this. Knowledge workers need to be able to earn their keep everyday, not only when money-grabbing, poker-playing corporate tapdancers realise the systems they put in place to get rid of them don't actually do the trick - so, hit them where it hurts, when they try.
@AbandonedAmerica how much is so much ?
@saliaku @AbandonedAmerica I'd suggest somewhere in the ballpark of: the largest amount you can think of for doing a freelance gig for a new client, plus 50% in compensation to you for them being a bad employer.
@AbandonedAmerica Reminds me of an old joke of a retired engineer being brought back to fix a problem at the factory he retired from. He puts a chalk mark on the defective part and charges $30,000: $1 for the chalk mark, $29,999 for knowing where to put the chalk mark.
@AbandonedAmerica Counting the months until this will apply to my company, they're intent on speedrunning
i quit a job where billionaire ownership had no money for me have a raise, but after i quit they had the money to offer me 2x what they had been paying me to maintain code i had written.
There's nothing like telling a billionaire "NO" they can't process it.
@AbandonedAmerica tell them how many "tokens" it will cost them
If it were me, I'd plop a fixed priced contract with a $ amount of several times your best guess at what it'll likely take or a monthly rate similarly inflated.
Under no circumstances would I quote an hourly rate and have them looking over your shoulder every day to see how many hours you worked or otherwise micromanage your work.
Before quoting, negative sell the hell out of them to get a read on how badly they're bleeding and based on that let them determine the upper bound.
@AbandonedAmerica Show them your Ray Patterson energy when they reinstate you.
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@AbandonedAmerica the faulty software already cost them 800 millions. They seem to have budget, no need to be shy.
Executives and shareholders are incapable of learning.
@AbandonedAmerica that's my plan. The chalk tax.
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or not go back to work for such *** at all? if one can afford it… start a business and be their competition instead,
corporations dont learn, they dont act reasonable because they dont have reason, they dont have awareness so they can’t become aware that they made an error.
oh well maybe corporations embrace AI because it’s very similar to them