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Most mainstream Japanese lager is made partially from rice (in these lagers, over 1/3rd of the grain used is rice), so the flavor difference is probably already familiar to many people.
Unfortunately, many other nations have become very competitive in English proficiency now. 1980s-2010s was the period to build an English-proficient workforce and enjoy the economic benefits (as my country Singapore did decades ago).
Keep trying to apply for jobs in companies or countries with better working cultures.
Anyway, in the interview, he talked about places that sound like what you are describing in the first paragraph but he called them kissas.
I think coding assistants would end up being more helpful if, instead of trying to do what they're asked, they would come back with questions that help us (or force us) to think. I wonder if a context prompt that says, "when I ask you to do something, assume I haven't thought the problem through, and before doing anything, ask me leading questions," would help.
I think Leslie Lamport once said that the biggest resistance to using TLA+ - a language that helps you, and forces you to think - is because that's the last thing programmers want to do.
I get what you're referring to here, when it's tunnel-vision debugging. Personally I usually find that coding/writing/editing is thinking for me. I'm manipulating the logic on screen and seeing how to make it make sense, like a math problem.
LLMs help because they immediately think through a problem and start raising questions and points of uncertainty. Once I see those questions in the <think> output, I cancel the stream, think through them, and edit my prompt to answer the questions beforehand. This often causes the LLM's responses to become much faster and shorter, since it doesn't need to agonise over those decisions any more.