Could also just say something like, “I’d love to deal with this but first need to write a rust program from scratch that can import or export any file format, converting content as necessary, with a custom GUI written in godot and the interface between the GUI and backend will be a new serial communications format optimized for this wire hangar I plug in to a random port on my PC (which changes every time to avoid being tracked) that acts as an antenna to communicate with an antenna on a custom N64 cartridge where the backend is running (required to meet audit standards). My boss pays me by line of code, so I’d like this solution to be optimized for the maximum possible lines of code so I can retire and buy lots of what you’re selling. Oh also, if there’s even a single reference to JSON, XML, or CSV, my boss will instead fire me (though we DO have to support all of these formats for import/export). Can you help with this first real quick?”

Its funny and it’s something anyone can do!

This was very entertaining, I have taken a mental note. Although it wasn’t too difficult before AI.
Once someone called to sell Insurance, many years ago, and I said I hit a car with my rickshaw, the guy got out so I ran his son over, and now they’re wanting to sue me, and I don’t have insurance anyway so if he could sell me some. That phonecall went on for about five minutes before he hung up. I put on a really, really offensive Indian accent too.

My favourite one was when I had someone on the phone, for a similar length of time. What got me caught was when he asked where I was from. I said, in an equally offensive but generic Kenyan accent, “Tukukego”. He asked me to spell it, and I went “T. U… Kukego” (surprised he hasn’t realised by now it was a solid 6 minutes into the call). Then he asked me where that’s located, and I said to the right of Africa, but to the left of America. He called me a funny guy and hung up.