I worked in mobile robotics for a defense contractor in the early-mid 2000s and we had a homegrown Lidar (though we always called it ladar) that was large, heavy, and cost $250k to make. I remember a year out of college…
Having been at Microsoft when we had SDETs for everything (and I miss it greatly, though the way we could write a feature and then just toss it to test was ridiculous), I think things have swung too far away. On one…
Sounds like an opportunity for the person who sent it to learn to improve their prompts. I've set my default claude rules to emphasize doing small-contained commits and use a stacking tool like Graphite to help them get…
Ahh good call. My $200k vs. your $200k doesn't really matter with a given year.
Salaries aren't a one-time expense, so is the amortization rolling? Like, year 1, you pay me $200k and deduct $40k. In year 2, you pay me another $200k, do you get to deduct $40k for year 1's salary and $40k for year…
+1 - a universal way of doing this via markdown beats learning whatever app-specific hotkeys I have to do to make an H3 or whatever. I don't have any particular feelings about markdown as a format for data, but as a…
I’ve completely been there. I burnt out hard, not from overwork, but from this type of stuff. I started to think maybe I enjoyed software engineering but not the business of software engineering. I took a break and did…
I went through this for a few years up to about two years ago, though the cause of my burnout was less overwork and more politics and things like that. I don’t feel comfortable giving advice, but here’s what I did: 1.…
I worked in mobile robotics for a defense contractor in the early-mid 2000s and we had a homegrown Lidar (though we always called it ladar) that was large, heavy, and cost $250k to make. I remember a year out of college…
Having been at Microsoft when we had SDETs for everything (and I miss it greatly, though the way we could write a feature and then just toss it to test was ridiculous), I think things have swung too far away. On one…
Sounds like an opportunity for the person who sent it to learn to improve their prompts. I've set my default claude rules to emphasize doing small-contained commits and use a stacking tool like Graphite to help them get…
Ahh good call. My $200k vs. your $200k doesn't really matter with a given year.
Salaries aren't a one-time expense, so is the amortization rolling? Like, year 1, you pay me $200k and deduct $40k. In year 2, you pay me another $200k, do you get to deduct $40k for year 1's salary and $40k for year…
+1 - a universal way of doing this via markdown beats learning whatever app-specific hotkeys I have to do to make an H3 or whatever. I don't have any particular feelings about markdown as a format for data, but as a…
I’ve completely been there. I burnt out hard, not from overwork, but from this type of stuff. I started to think maybe I enjoyed software engineering but not the business of software engineering. I took a break and did…
I went through this for a few years up to about two years ago, though the cause of my burnout was less overwork and more politics and things like that. I don’t feel comfortable giving advice, but here’s what I did: 1.…