I'm of half Mediterranian heritage and there was an Italian restaurant that I started eating at out of spite at the French one next door where I had a horrible experience. A little commercial strip across the street from a cemetary. Great food, big hearts.
Nobody ever suggested sharing a table, but if you offered and there was a seat available they'd seat you / someone there. They got busier, and the line started going out the door; people were doing this in line, because if you said you had a "full table" they would seat you at a family table and you could often get ahead of at least part of the line.
The French place closed and the Italian place moved downtown. The end.
I didn't end up with any enduring friends, but I met some great people who I shared food with, learned some interesting things. Riding Amtrak in first class (on the Starlight) was similar.
I interpret the OP's quest as just that, a personal quest. Some of the comments here however are just out of this world.[0] I almost would have made one like that myself but I read the article.
I appreciate the commenters as spice for the casserole. So that's why I upvoted it: a well-spiced casserole.
[0] Sure, plenty of us here are into social engineering.
And most of these "managers" are barking orders, with no faith or expectation they will be followed; along with this, they find the soft cooing sounds of empty apologies comforting, rather than root cause and accepting some of the responsibility; they blame the workers when conflicting orders are not followed, and engage in language lawyering. They ask "workers" to check their own work; several times. They demand workers misrepresent their expertise; they demand the appearance of certification (but obviously don't want to pay or negotiate with someone with the actual credentials). They interpret silence as permission.
It seems to me that assuming that debt needs to be repaid was moved to a footnote during the ZIRP years. I feel like there was a shift of the poles, the movement of a rift, you get the idea.
In my opinion and experience that "normal" case is cognitive debt. Not having coding standards enforced: cognitive as well as technical debt. Missing / incorrect documentation. Uncertainty of provenance and what's actually running in production and how it gets there.
That's what you get in the "normal" case, and since the default attitude going into such situations should be Trust Nothing, if there was an LLM there I'd consult it. Magic 8-Ball, too. Rubber ducky? (Not that rubber ducky.) (I once wrote a dependency analyzer / oracle for PHP... in Perl.)
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