ctkqiang said In my freelancing project, I encounter this, I HOPE this is a joke , but isn't a joke. Just wow,The most unrealistic deadline I got was the project must complete within 16 hours.

Setting: Freelance 
Did I accept this? No
Client budget: 10 usd
What is the project? A iOS app which is the a combination of all LLM into one, like a clone of Poe. The API key must use my own because client  refused to pay. I negotiate about the project, explain to him why this project, deadline and the budget is not aligned He said " Now everything can be done by using AI, why are yoh cheating me, i will report you" ( I was like report what?) I rejected the gig, then day's later my email junk folder is occupied with racist content and insulting me. 

So yea. This is the whole story. This project is doable, just a wrapper. I don't mind if client will pay for all the API , the pay and dealings is logical.,Everyone heard of MERN stack have you heard of FUCK, SHIT and PORN stack? 

When I build Low level app that required  backend side I use the FUCK stack.

Flask
Uniapp
C/c++
Kotlin

For some LLM project I use PORN 

PostgreSQL
OpenAI
Redis
Node.js.

and for some corporate project that requires OCR I use SHIT

Spring Boot
Helm
Interceptor
Tesseract

what stack do you use?,so here’s the tea.

i’m a Chinese dev working in a Japanese company. they’ve got this decently sized project a full web app and backend stack and yeah, I’m handling both ends. full-stack life. not a problem. I’ve seen worse.

but the maturity level in this place? the passive-aggressiveness? is different level. have you ever worked somewhere where your coworkers act all sweet on the surface, but lowkey make it feel like everything is your fault in the most obvious way possible?

so here comes the fun part.

the Stripe exchange rate endpoint we were using? deprecated. not globally — just regionally in Japan.

i did my homework. contacted Stripe support. got the chats, screenshots, docs, confirmations, evidence, not .........vibes.

solution? easy. i integrated a third-party API that returns the same exchange rate data. built a cron job to pull and cache the values daily. stored it locally. frontend grabs the user’s currency via IP, backend returns the rate, no stress, no wasted API calls. boom. problem solved.

my manager? totally got it. said it was efficient.
but the founder? man acted like a toddler.

he flipped. said it was my fault.
told me i just "no communicate well...uh...very confuse..."  like bro… what even? do I look like I own stripe or do I look like  I secretly working for them? plus, i explain in full, still not understand.

he got heated in meeting, so I clapped back in the meeting: you want to argue all day and get nothing done? or you want to understand what’s going on, and let me go back to building stuff that actually works? pick one.

he didn’t like that.
pretty sure he’s shopping for my replacement now. well, doesn’t take a genius to see it.

but I’m not here to babysit egos. I’ll do my job clean, document everything, and keep it professional. meanwhile yeah, I’ve already started looking for something else.,My colleague is so annoying! Whenever she found an issue with the site or app (as I newly handle this project. The guy before this wrote redundant code overload.) 

she tags everyone in the company just to point out the issue, demanding Me to fix it. Like "it is your project yoi should know better "

I check the git. That's wasn't my code at all. Some guy (idk wtf )in 2024 wrote it.```