Those were gimmicks from that boom time, when wages were generally high and sooner folks switched jobs within weeks. Perks mattered in that period. Then wages dropped but the mindset that these perks mattered remained.

Some of them move to marketing and become sexual predators

The expectation is that they’ll have to hire back a lot of developers back in a panic once the consequences start hitting.

There is a small chance a new AI is developed in time that is actually good at coding and debugging in a complex environment before that point but for now that seems unlikely.

Remote desktop manager from devolutions.net at the moment. It’s what our admins recommend.

And the thing figured as I was on a corporate network, so it locked itself down and needs settings done by the office 365 administrator. They checked and apparently you need some paid tool to get it working. We’re using an alternative now.