> You have to accept that 5-15% of the people who would show up to something like this are genuine weirdos you probably don't want to be around.

How have you handled this in past meetups?

> - OpenCode Black (currently not accepting new subs)

Temporarily paused on new subs. It'll be back.

> Being in business means having to respond to customer enquiries at some point.

Tell that to Google or Meta.

> I have better uptime than AWS.

You're not serving tens of millions of people.

You don't know how many friends he has!

Nor the amount of computers. So what

Or use atuin[1]

[1]: https://atuin.sh/

> I prefer VS Code with Claude Opus 4.6, it makes me more productive during my working hours so I can take more quality time with my family.

That's great you can spend more time with your family, but the code you're writing this way is, by and large, probably crap.

Garbage in, garbage out. Most of the code out there is already crap, I'm just embracing it.

> an incredibly based individual

This was never the case.

We're past that.

> reaching out to targeted companies

Can you elaborate?

The first thing is that you have to have a specialized skillset. Web development, back end developer, mobile or even “cloud” by itself is not specialized. Then reach out to companies that are looking for those skills

There all sorts of path dependent specialties that people have that let them stand out.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47292143

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46923247

> Go back to paper for everything. Work, journals, timetables, the lot. And the teachers can use whatever to drive projectors in the classroom.

Kids in Gen Alpha and beyond cannot fathom using analog tools for school work. Their collective minds would break.

Yeah definitely agree with that. I have one.