my red flag is the set of all red flags that don’t contain themselves.
AI gains in the last ~year have simultaneously made coding as a skill less useful while making coding as an activity an incredibly powerful use of time.

the idea that “there are only ~30 people in the world that can do X” is pretty intuitive in some fields, but it’s a completely foreign concept elsewhere.
my apologies to any IQ-enjoyers out there but Mensa has Scientology vibes
this might be a me-problem but… if I have ever seen someone be passive-agressive, it instantly upper-bounds the closeness of friendship I can have with that person. need to trust that you will be direct :/
yes, YOU TOO are vulnerable to applied psychology from adversarial actors. it can happen to YOU.