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this post was submitted on 29 May 2026
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...companies? Sure I guess, if you want to angle your career trajectory towards "unemployable" by all means lol.
I am a tech lead, if any dev under me intentionally added/used a tool to our systems because it had malicious undocumented behaviors of any kind, they would be fired immediately and any company that contacted us for reference would be informed of their behavior.
To be clear, this is the scenario of
Me: hey I saw you installed [tool], that thing is flagged by our systems for the maintainers having done malicious undocumented stuff in the past
Dev: haha yeah thats why I used it
Me: you are joking right?
Thatd be an instant high level escalation to "strip this person of privs and get them off our system asap, and HR now has to be involved"
You dont fuckin do shit like that in a real company if you wanna stay employed lol.