most companies will make the FDE role but not understand the value of the FDE org, which is to drive product strategy and function as R&D
Id say the main difference is FDEs post-engagement need to drive product strategy back into the platform (non trivial ask) you typically see FDE-driven companies' products be 'assembly' driven and very deep into…
the main distinction i like to make is: your FDEs shape your product strategy, and should be considered R&D. after making sure a customer deployment is successful (by any means necessary btw, even if it means building…
sadly with all the labs benchmaxxing I feel like you just have to try the model for a while to really evaluate how good it is, especially for each individual use case
100%, if someone from a no name school does well on the interview I’ll happily recommend them to be hired. However idk how HR filters resumes, and they likely use certain heuristics to try and minimize false positives
Do you need to do tier 1 and 2 work before tier 3? If they are structurally different, and there’s a way to train people directly into tier 3, then it doesn’t seem unreasonable to automate t1 and t2 as from my…
I joined a new company 6 months ago. I interviewed at 16 companies and got 5 offers from a mix of ai cos / big tech / trading firms Background is SWE at an AI co that's in the news sometimes It felt about the same in…
you can get 1% as a founding eng at seed, and its not uncommon for a 5 at 50 seed dilution is also dependent on the opex, founder negotiating power, and growth of the company. There are startups raising monster rounds…
For now! Even if not, there's pricing pressure between chat, gemini, and claude. The products seem to be comparable for laypeople which is why OpenAI has been investing a ton in their memory feature to try to lock in…
It's unclear to me how this will play out because LLMs don't have the same network / platform effects as the other examples (Uber / Facebook), nor is there one dominant LLM that is overwhelmingly better than the…
not very often which is why its zero signal in rare occasions it might go the other way around, like someone who has so much experience they dont need a pretty resume because their work speaks for itself New grads are…
as someone who has done 100+ first round interviews for SWE, including new grad zero signal: resume & cover letter. applicants will mass-apply with ai-tuned resumes that happen to perfectly match our listing medium…
+1, referred candidates at my company perform way better in interviews and on the job compared to cold applicants
I'm very optimistic. I think most diseases being cured, extended lifespans, physical abundance, and zero poverty are within reach in our lifespan, due to technology. I think humans will be about the same in terms of…
the article takes this into account with EV obviously vol is not the end all be all but one of your main advantages as a startup employee is access to the insider info and being able to walk away
its not imagined, its already happening at scale in f500, the companies they work with to do this are going vertical
the govt helped lift many, many millions out of poverty since opening to the rest of the world?
its pretty easy to point your terminal agent to your giant pr and ask it to break it up into small prs if youre being asked to rubberstamp prs thats a management skill issue
but we trust the stat that 16 pct of americans have a positive view?
an article on one person? cmon it seems like Chinese people have much more faith in their govt than Western countries, and subsequently trust them more in distributing the benefits of AI (in aggregate ofc)
Yeah, a shortage implies that the price of labor rises a lot Not unimaginable, given that the bottlenecks seem to be concentrating on high-level direction, relational work, and expert verification
It's interesting that many developing and Asian countries have a more positive view of AI: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/15/people-around-the-w... How much of this is due to AI vs. the government and corporate…
The frontier companies are building agents to automate work end to end (i.e. with decision power) The tech takes a while to diffuse like any other but I think call centers don't have a great outlook
While I agree that AI is more salient, I feel like there was a ton of press about the "Algorithm" especially around social media and content, which is essentially "ML"
can you blame them? nondeterministic products have resulted in some of the most successful businesses of All Time (tiktok, reels, google search, product recommendations)
most companies will make the FDE role but not understand the value of the FDE org, which is to drive product strategy and function as R&D
Id say the main difference is FDEs post-engagement need to drive product strategy back into the platform (non trivial ask) you typically see FDE-driven companies' products be 'assembly' driven and very deep into…
the main distinction i like to make is: your FDEs shape your product strategy, and should be considered R&D. after making sure a customer deployment is successful (by any means necessary btw, even if it means building…
sadly with all the labs benchmaxxing I feel like you just have to try the model for a while to really evaluate how good it is, especially for each individual use case
100%, if someone from a no name school does well on the interview I’ll happily recommend them to be hired. However idk how HR filters resumes, and they likely use certain heuristics to try and minimize false positives
Do you need to do tier 1 and 2 work before tier 3? If they are structurally different, and there’s a way to train people directly into tier 3, then it doesn’t seem unreasonable to automate t1 and t2 as from my…
I joined a new company 6 months ago. I interviewed at 16 companies and got 5 offers from a mix of ai cos / big tech / trading firms Background is SWE at an AI co that's in the news sometimes It felt about the same in…
you can get 1% as a founding eng at seed, and its not uncommon for a 5 at 50 seed dilution is also dependent on the opex, founder negotiating power, and growth of the company. There are startups raising monster rounds…
For now! Even if not, there's pricing pressure between chat, gemini, and claude. The products seem to be comparable for laypeople which is why OpenAI has been investing a ton in their memory feature to try to lock in…
It's unclear to me how this will play out because LLMs don't have the same network / platform effects as the other examples (Uber / Facebook), nor is there one dominant LLM that is overwhelmingly better than the…
not very often which is why its zero signal in rare occasions it might go the other way around, like someone who has so much experience they dont need a pretty resume because their work speaks for itself New grads are…
as someone who has done 100+ first round interviews for SWE, including new grad zero signal: resume & cover letter. applicants will mass-apply with ai-tuned resumes that happen to perfectly match our listing medium…
+1, referred candidates at my company perform way better in interviews and on the job compared to cold applicants
I'm very optimistic. I think most diseases being cured, extended lifespans, physical abundance, and zero poverty are within reach in our lifespan, due to technology. I think humans will be about the same in terms of…
the article takes this into account with EV obviously vol is not the end all be all but one of your main advantages as a startup employee is access to the insider info and being able to walk away
its not imagined, its already happening at scale in f500, the companies they work with to do this are going vertical
the govt helped lift many, many millions out of poverty since opening to the rest of the world?
its pretty easy to point your terminal agent to your giant pr and ask it to break it up into small prs if youre being asked to rubberstamp prs thats a management skill issue
but we trust the stat that 16 pct of americans have a positive view?
an article on one person? cmon it seems like Chinese people have much more faith in their govt than Western countries, and subsequently trust them more in distributing the benefits of AI (in aggregate ofc)
Yeah, a shortage implies that the price of labor rises a lot Not unimaginable, given that the bottlenecks seem to be concentrating on high-level direction, relational work, and expert verification
It's interesting that many developing and Asian countries have a more positive view of AI: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/15/people-around-the-w... How much of this is due to AI vs. the government and corporate…
The frontier companies are building agents to automate work end to end (i.e. with decision power) The tech takes a while to diffuse like any other but I think call centers don't have a great outlook
While I agree that AI is more salient, I feel like there was a ton of press about the "Algorithm" especially around social media and content, which is essentially "ML"
can you blame them? nondeterministic products have resulted in some of the most successful businesses of All Time (tiktok, reels, google search, product recommendations)