My unsolicited thoughts: * AI will drive additional features as development accelerates * There will be a window where fast adopting AI companies can deliver features faster than peers * Those fast adopting AI companies…
We should design a specific language to make sure that we can encode the exact requirements that we want. Something that has a limited set of keywords that are explicit. Wait a minute...
I'm genuinely curious what a good survival strategy is for people at different levels within tech - junior, mid-level, senior, staff, etc.
I believe choosing a well known problem space in a well known language certainly influenced a lot of the behavior. AIs usefulness is correlated strongly with its training data and there’s no doubt been a significant…
I am just not having this experience of AI being terribly useful. I don’t program as much in my role but I’ve found it’s a giant time sink. I recognize that many people are finding it incredibly helpful but when I get…
The market value of software diminishes as it becomes significantly easier to write.
And to add-on, isn’t there some market dynamics we are avoiding here with this example? If I’m an AI company and really produced a principal level engineer, why would I sell it for less than the labor market is willing…
Additional Context: The Getty Villa which is on the border of Malibu and Pacific Palisades was the structure that was threatened by fire directly. This article is about the Getty Center which lies in Brentwood and fires…
I don't think I've personally ever been as disillusioned with technology more than with the recent rapid adoption of AI. I think AI is massively negative on the environment via increased energy consumption to train…
Oh definitely that happens and from my experience I don’t think there’s a lot that can be done unless there’s strong faith in engineering leadership to push back on the complexity.
These aren’t really things but it was nice to self reflect on what’s important: - Piano music, specifically listening to and playing the greats like Rachmaninoff, Chopin, Beethoven, etc. - The feeling you get when…
I think Americans workers are willing to tolerate conditions of exorbitant wealth disparity for at least two reasons. First, because Americans believe someday that they will be wealthy and they do not want to eliminate…
How much is the average person's exposure to commercial real-estate holdings versus the VC class' exposure?
I wish I understood why so many options are granted in the first place. If they offered 10,000 fewer options, would performance be any worse? Wouldn't a lot of people be vying for that same position and couldn't the…
Ha - maybe one day!
Not an expert, but I would expect that these sorts of events are used as training.
When you say move into management, is that something that an individual can really control? I'm an IC and I've performed well but I've never thought of management as something I could actually go into. Instead, I've…
Have you tried adding yourself to the Sudoers file? My work didn’t see that workaround and now I always have sudo permissions.
Cost of living near an office is absurd. Houses in all tech hubs in the US are completely blown out (NYC, Bay Area, Los Angeles, Seattle, etc.) [1]. Average house price in Cupertino (not that you'd live directly in the…
Maybe not forever but the developer shortage is accelerating [1]. 1 https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=US48223621
The reality of my personal situation - and I'm sure others are at the same point - is that remote work offers the biggest chance we have to fight (in my opinion) two of the most important issues of our time - cost of…
I wonder how true this is for SRE positions. I feel like those are more rare.
Somewhat relatedly, I converted from SWE to SRE for three reasons. 1. SWE interviews are torture and no matter what I accomplish at my job, the next job I have to re-prove everything all over again. SRE interviews do…
Brilliant analysis. Anecdotally, I find this to be true in my own case.
Metabook? Instameta? WhatsMeta?
My unsolicited thoughts: * AI will drive additional features as development accelerates * There will be a window where fast adopting AI companies can deliver features faster than peers * Those fast adopting AI companies…
We should design a specific language to make sure that we can encode the exact requirements that we want. Something that has a limited set of keywords that are explicit. Wait a minute...
I'm genuinely curious what a good survival strategy is for people at different levels within tech - junior, mid-level, senior, staff, etc.
I believe choosing a well known problem space in a well known language certainly influenced a lot of the behavior. AIs usefulness is correlated strongly with its training data and there’s no doubt been a significant…
I am just not having this experience of AI being terribly useful. I don’t program as much in my role but I’ve found it’s a giant time sink. I recognize that many people are finding it incredibly helpful but when I get…
The market value of software diminishes as it becomes significantly easier to write.
And to add-on, isn’t there some market dynamics we are avoiding here with this example? If I’m an AI company and really produced a principal level engineer, why would I sell it for less than the labor market is willing…
Additional Context: The Getty Villa which is on the border of Malibu and Pacific Palisades was the structure that was threatened by fire directly. This article is about the Getty Center which lies in Brentwood and fires…
I don't think I've personally ever been as disillusioned with technology more than with the recent rapid adoption of AI. I think AI is massively negative on the environment via increased energy consumption to train…
Oh definitely that happens and from my experience I don’t think there’s a lot that can be done unless there’s strong faith in engineering leadership to push back on the complexity.
These aren’t really things but it was nice to self reflect on what’s important: - Piano music, specifically listening to and playing the greats like Rachmaninoff, Chopin, Beethoven, etc. - The feeling you get when…
I think Americans workers are willing to tolerate conditions of exorbitant wealth disparity for at least two reasons. First, because Americans believe someday that they will be wealthy and they do not want to eliminate…
How much is the average person's exposure to commercial real-estate holdings versus the VC class' exposure?
I wish I understood why so many options are granted in the first place. If they offered 10,000 fewer options, would performance be any worse? Wouldn't a lot of people be vying for that same position and couldn't the…
Ha - maybe one day!
Not an expert, but I would expect that these sorts of events are used as training.
When you say move into management, is that something that an individual can really control? I'm an IC and I've performed well but I've never thought of management as something I could actually go into. Instead, I've…
Have you tried adding yourself to the Sudoers file? My work didn’t see that workaround and now I always have sudo permissions.
Cost of living near an office is absurd. Houses in all tech hubs in the US are completely blown out (NYC, Bay Area, Los Angeles, Seattle, etc.) [1]. Average house price in Cupertino (not that you'd live directly in the…
Maybe not forever but the developer shortage is accelerating [1]. 1 https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=US48223621
The reality of my personal situation - and I'm sure others are at the same point - is that remote work offers the biggest chance we have to fight (in my opinion) two of the most important issues of our time - cost of…
I wonder how true this is for SRE positions. I feel like those are more rare.
Somewhat relatedly, I converted from SWE to SRE for three reasons. 1. SWE interviews are torture and no matter what I accomplish at my job, the next job I have to re-prove everything all over again. SRE interviews do…
Brilliant analysis. Anecdotally, I find this to be true in my own case.
Metabook? Instameta? WhatsMeta?