Ever heard about software devs not being able to work on personal projects because all the code they produce, even off the clock is owned by their employer?
The line? Usually you need to be doing something conceptually different. This knockoff electrabuzz wouldn’t have raised as many eyebrows if it was in a farming simulator, or a card game.
It’s like if you had a chainsaw gun in your game, and your game was a third person shooter set in a dark gritty sci-fi world where you are fighting subterranean monsters called the Focus Board.
“If you let me do this, I promise ai will invent a cure for asthma.”
“We need fewer regulations and more money so we can bring about AI gods that will cure all diseases and fix climate change.”
“We will boil the planet to the edge of survivability and at the last moment, a super intelligence will be born that knows how to fix it all and return our planet to normal.”
I was idealistic at my current place. Then my manager and another key person left, and it all went out the window. Even when they were here, I was still more idealistic than was realistic. But my manager helped channel that.
Now I feel betrayed and sidelined and stifled. Disillusioned. Totally unnecessary too.
Ever heard about software devs not being able to work on personal projects because all the code they produce, even off the clock is owned by their employer?