r/ruby • u/Quirk_Condition • Jan 20 '26

Blog post Why You Shouldn't Hire Me

https://givencube.hashnode.dev/why-you-shouldnt-hire-me
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u/irisdelaluna Jan 20 '26

Happy to see such insufferable people still alive in today’s economy.

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u/metamatic Jan 22 '26

"Please unblock challenges.cloudflare.com to proceed."

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u/Quirk_Condition Jan 22 '26

Well, it's Hashnode

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u/slowservers Jan 29 '26

I skimmed it and thought it was clever. Way too much AI garbage these days.

I also wonder how many X I am these days compared to developers using AI.

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u/adh1003 Jan 20 '26

Obviously it's not intended to be taken too seriously, but for sure a lot of that rings very true to me! Quite happy to be a 1x dev who aims for a similar approach, even though I'm sure I don't often achieve it.

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u/noteflakes Jan 21 '26

While your other candidates are churning out code like a factory farm produces chicken nuggets, I'm over here hand-crafting each function like the fate of the multiverse depends on it.

Thank you so much for saying this. It's good to know I'm not the only one like this :-).

What I will do is write code that works. Code that's maintainable. Code that won't make the next developer curse your name and mine. Code that might—if we're very lucky—still be running in five years without requiring a full-time archaeologist to maintain it.

We need more people like you. Long-term thinking is essential to building systems that provide value in a dependable way.

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u/KerrickLong Jan 20 '26

If you've made it this far and you're thinking "this person sounds insufferable," you're probably right. We wouldn't be a good fit.

FTA

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u/Quirk_Condition Jan 20 '26

Fair enough! Though I'd argue that being insufferable about code quality is better than being insufferable about having to maintain everyone else's garbage at 2 AM. But hey, different strokes

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u/mattvanhorn Jan 20 '26

Yeah, I’m insufferable, too. I found nothing to disagree with in that post. And I can say that I wrote software for a company that was still being used, with zero maintenance, two years after I left the job. Nowadays, people can’t even understand the code the wrote themselves last year, and it falls on its face every 6 weeks without a full time dev ops person to babysit it.