blake-raymond

They used their own proprietary benchmark called sudo L7, which purports to evaluate staff-level engineering judgment more than the correctness of the code itself.

Not surprising to me that higher thinking will outperform coding harnesses here.

There is no conundrum.

Your potential customers want you to succeed. Everyone has problems, and people are rational. If you actually solve a real problem people have, find those people, effectively communicate your solution to them, and charge something they can afford, they will pay for it.

Any failed project is missing one or more of those.