Its cool you have devs already subscribing, so there's a built in audience; however, I have no idea if your existing audience has need of my service and by extension whether listing with you is a good idea for me or not.

To be fair, the wireless adapter isn't Bulletproof on windows either.

No argument, the cash discount framing is more honest.

Around me, I've seen a huge up swing in companies either offering cash discount or credit card surcharge, typically 3-5%.

While frustrating, I actually appreciate this effort to preserve a non digital option. If only for privacy and tracking benefits.

While that's true, it was possible to use t9 without looking at the device and "touch type". Smart phones, text communication, and big screens is the real distinguishing factor on thebsmsrt phone axis.

Maturity gap sounds more like a hiring miss on culture fit than an issue with mentoring. More of an org issue IMO. Their education level shouldn't really matter if they have a good attitude and willingness to be coached.

Part of the job of senior devs is to mentor juniors regardless of their background. Not to gatekeep over your own degree.

There are a few standards now, DKIM, SFP, DMARC, maybe more now, I don't know. If you send emails without these configured correctly the reputation of the domain and IP are lowered.

Past some internal threshold, you go from inbox to spam, and from spam to silently dropped.

Further, if you send too many emails in a short time, or more emails than usual, your reputation is lowered.

I'm sure there's more, but these are the kind of things that make it difficult. You make a config error, don't realize, then people start not getting your emails. You fix the config, but there's no way to get the reputation back and nobody at Microsoft or Google to ask to re-evaluate you.

Deliverability to major providers like Google or Microsoft. Can be just getting your emails flagged as spam, or them being sikently dropped and never delivered even to spam. Making it impossible know if your emails are being ignored by the recipient or not even delivered to their inbox. It's also impossible to troubleshoot.

Mostly reputation of your IP address and domain, things which are hard to untangle. If you manage to get a clean IP you might be all clear.

There's other configurations that are required and if not right can harm your reputation, it isn't something you can set and forget.

I hate that it's come to this, but you are right.

It's not that it's too difficult, it's that there are too many things beyond your control due to the central duopoly of Google and Microsoft for email. If you end up in their bad graces it's hard to get out, and they don't care about you, there's no support or someone to talk to to get off the ban list.

Not who you asked, and I don't mean this to sound pompous. I don't believe (there's probably some but go with me for a minute) there's any software task I couldn't do, given enough time to research the domain and understand the problem space.

When folks say they couldn't do it before, it doesn't mean they aren't mentally capable to do the task, it's the time or speed constraints that are in play. What coding agents do help you close that gap. It doesn't make you an expert in the field, but as an example it can help you understand the domain, nomenclature, acronyms that you would have had to research.

This doesn't invalidate your ability to judge a solution as good or bad. It also doesn't prevent the agent from using code you don't understand either, so you still have to figure things out but it can help speed some of those up.