Luther Werington

It feels nearly impossible to find a straight answer online when you're trying to buy a new SaaS tool. Most top-ranking review sites are just affiliate blogs pushing whatever pays the highest commission and if platforms start locking user discussions behind login walls finding real feedback is going to become even harder.

I've started relying more on niche community Discords and indie maker forums just to see what actual users are complaining about.

When you're about to pay for a new software tool what is your trusted spot to check if it's actually any good?

It feels like the whole junior hiring playbook is broken. Standard take-home assignments don't work anymore because candidates can just generate an entire app in minutes and companies reacting by raising the bar to ridiculous mid level expectations are shutting out great talent.

We shifted our focus away from raw code generation during interviews and started looking closely at code review and debugging skills instead.

How has your team changed its hiring process to actually spot good potential in junior devs when AI can fake the basics?

We've been doing link building and mention outreach with a small SEO agency since August.

I expected the hard part to be finding pages and getting anyone to answer. It wasn't. site owners reply. A lot of them. faster than a small team can keep up with.