You seem to be lacking the experience of what actually happens in interviews.

You say this, someone challenges you, now you're on the defensive during an interview and everyone has a bad taste in their mouth. Yeah, that's how it goes.

That's just the taste of iron from the blood after the duel. But this is completely normal after a formal challenge! Companies want real cyberwarriors, and the old (lame) rockstar ninjas that they hired 10 years ago are very prone to issuing these.

I don’t want to go to war, I just want a quiet house in the mountains and a career that allows me to think about things.

Amen.