I love a conspiracy but I dont see how the incentives align.

Real estate leases and ownership is a sunk cost. Office space can be relet. And even Amazon wont make a dent in the office realestate marker (warehouses, maybe...)

They want people back in because either they think it makes the company more productive, to get people to quit rather than layoffs, or to give the appearance of doing something. Knowing Amazon they probably have some data to drive the decision too.

I'd take the trillion. Think of the good you could do!

Responding to hyperbole is hardly adding to the discussion.

Money isn't everything. People claim it is are often missing something money can't really buy.

If you are unhappy while wealthy you would probably be unhappy without wealth as well, perhaps more so due to the financial stress. Either way, I would rather be unhappy with money than without.

Grab a local dog or two and you have a side hussle or at least can help a neighbor

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Why are so many coding assistant forks? Is it fashion or is there a technical reason? Imagine Python support being a fork. Or live server.

Because it's hard to reimplement VSCode from scratch?

VSCode has plugins

They are making changes that cannot be done or are very difficult with vscode extensions

What might they be? API calls, read all files, write to files, side bar, UI interactions in editor. These are things I would imagine an extension can do. Continue.dev is an example.

I would write a technical book for the challenge and learning rather than the "I published a book". It would also learn me a ... haskell or whatever.

But not for the money and probably not the opportunities as anything there would be a bonus.

I am more like that 1hr a day cranker. As you can see I am not natural at it... I would grind out and rewrite, get edits until it looks OK.

I think treating everything as a skill-building exercise rather than a pursuit for external rewards could keep any process enjoyable

Yes. Just as much as a farmer planting a seed. I save a lot of time thanks to crud apps.

Lol. Hustle shops pay less and there are more hours. It is not exploitation, but usually there are better gigs. Finance is probably an exception where you know those long hours will be rewarded one day either in the current gig or another future one.

The blind poster is obviously more savvy than the "A players".