The Big Brother report immerses you in a dystopian future where your productivity as a developer means life or death. It is based on your actual coding stats generated via CodeClimbers. You can enable this feature in the dashboard.

The Year is 2048

The year is 2048. Programmers are being coerced to create invasive technology for government overreach.

In 2035, "AGI" was achieved and practically replaced all software developers and knowledge workers. However, this ultimately lead to a nuclear war (referred to as Nuke Day). Since then, there has been a massive restructuring to the world as we know it.

Three major nations now rule:

1. The Revivalist States (the scraps of the North and South America)

2. The African Empire (they weren’t a huge target on Nuke Day and birth rates do make a difference)

3. Tofalar (located in Siberia—most of Asia fled here for safety during the war)

Besides these, there aren’t any other major powers, just small tribes throughout the world who try and stay hidden.

Technology took a big step back after Nuke Day, destroying most of the internet, information, and infrastructure. This has put software developers in high demand again, especially the ones who never kneeled to AGI and didn’t abandoned their craft in the first place.

However, the nations that exist today have degraded to totalitarian regimes. So the only employ for software developers is creating technology to further these efforts. Thus, programmers face a dilemma: create the technology that gives government more control, or starve.

Your Job

You recently won the quarterly Labor Lottery and as a result got a job as a junior developer at the Ministry of Labor. This is one of the most powerful organizations in the Revivalist States.

Your team is working on a new surveillance technology called project OmniCore. It is uses a new coding language called Observa. The government plans on using the tech to listen to everyone’s conversations and issue fines in real time for any "misinformation or hate speech."

Timothy Brother, your project manager, is constantly looking over your shoulder and nagging you about how you spend your time. Although you despise him, he is relatively innocent compared to the people above him, especially the one they refer to as Father. You do not want to cross paths with him.

Little do they know, you have been working on your own secret side projects and are becoming a masterful programmer, preparing for something much bigger.

Yield to fear, and you become own of their pawns. Continue your path, and you start a coding revolution.

How to Win

Your quest is to defy Big Brother. You can get a gauge of how well you’re doing this based on how much you tick off Timothy. The angrier he gets, the better.

Timothy's emotions seamlessly correlate with the standard Weekly Report Card, which is based on 4 categories:

Deep Work

Deep work is the amount of time you spend “in the zone” doing productive things.

If you’re constantly switching contexts or getting distracted, you won’t accumulate much deep work.

Timothy doesn’t want you doing deep work because it means you’re not as interruptible and you can’t be there for all of his meetings.

As a general rule of thumb, 3+ hours of deep work per day is great.

Coding

Spending lots of time coding real projects is a great way for you to get better at your craft. This makes Timothy mad because the better you get, the less relevant and powerful he feels

Besides, the only coding he thinks you should be doing is for OmniCore.

Growth and Mastery

Another way to get better at your craft is to consume high quality content, hone your skills, and be ever learning. Timothy, however, thinks this is all a big waste of time. In fact, if you’re spending too much time learning, well, that’s just making you dangerously knowledgeable.

Don’t forget, Timothy likes things to stay… predictable.

Active Hours

If you haven’t noticed already, Timothy wants you to work long yet unproductive hours.

He also doesn’t care if you burn out, as long as he can show the higher ups all the hours you’ve logged!

So to win in this area, spend a healthy amount of time working per day, but not too much.

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