> There's a world of difference between managing a dozen or so individual contributors vs managing senior managers / directors. I agree, but in my opinion, your point about needing to know how things work still holds.…
Could this be a good thing - yes Will it be is a different thing though. And if it’s not, who exactly is accountable? With funds and portfolio managers that run them, there’s a clear accountability model (if the fund…
Sure, still need to enable access the same info but feels like bucketing the clients into bucket1 = clients that were working just fine before (users and whatever automation they had in place) bucket2 = ai clients that…
Per a report that came out the other day, the GitHub move to Azure has been slowed down (i.e. I don't think it's done). But maybe you have newer/better info than me
Yeah, that and Microsoft has been slow to move the infrastructure to something that scales better to handle that load. The more surpassing part is that Microsoft hasn't figured out a way to manage/contain the AI-sourced…
> Every use of AI for these robs the employee culture of a genuine trust building moment. Spot on. The erosion of communication and relationships between people in the workplace (or even outside it) that AI contributes…
This is awesome to hear about. The community aspects (both being part of the community and building community) can't be understated. Thanks for sharing!
> This sounds like an attempt to rationalize the fact that your business isn't that effective, otherwise adding more people would result in making more money. Yes, or that businesses are expecting a slow down in the…
This, and the fact that AI is taking people's jobs away without (as far as we can tell) significantly creating new jobs for those people to move to. The job impact is really pissing people off, rightfully so.
+1 to all of this. The challenge can be staying focused and thinking when the AI assistant is (1) moving very fast and (2) often times doing multiple things at the same time. I know I have struggled to keep up, and fall…
From reading the text of the article, and the direct quotes, I'm also unclear on why they booed him. My guess is because of what he's done, or at least perceived to have done, in the area of AI. Because what he said (at…
New knowledge doesn't necessarily push out old knowledge, and we probably don't have infinite capacity for knowledge. That being said, at least in my experience, the time when new pushes out old is when old is less…
Relatable! Or at least making me feel dumb (at times). Things that help me feel smarter are * actually writing more on my own - created a personal blog just to get myself to write more * upleveling my thinking - think…
The problem with the current political situation/administration in the US is that there's so much existing conflict of interest going on that anytime the government investigates concerns about conflict of interest, it…
Unless I'm missing something, the linked article from MIT is about more than graduate students. That article talks about how changes introduced in 2025 are causing taxation on budgets that (as far as I can tell) affect…
Yeah, conceptually this isn't all that different from new VM SKUs coming out in clouds. The costs and rate of change for AI hardware may be higher, and perhaps enough higher to mess up the math, but conceptually its a…
Yeah that's a good callout for sure, the spending here is nuts so agree that it's not "just another business that has to price itself right to be competitive". I guess if the time horizons is long, like 20 years, then…
As long as Apple and Google put reasonable AI capabilities on device, then software engineers will use those capabilities when it makes sense (the article gives lots of good examples of capabilities that make sense to…
The article is good in that it highlights the need for AI agents/assistants to help with different parts of software development, not just the up front "build me a new widget" part. The author (correctly imo) frames…
> My point is that maybe it was intentional, but just bad UX culture. This may be valid, but even if it is someone (or a group of people) at Amazon are violating one of their core leadership principles - Customer…
To put the 14% into some context, per Google, Coinbase headcount has had the following headcount each year + 2021 | 3,730 employees + 2022 | 4,706 employees + 2023 | 3,416 employees + 2024 | 3,772 employees + 2025 |…
To expand on this a little more, the absence of accountability contributes to the loss of learning. Mistakes and errors will always happen, whether they are sourced by humans or machines. But something (the human or the…
Oh man is right! The making stuff up is going to make this problem even bigger. There will be people that correct those hallucinations, in that scenario it’s “only” the applicants time that is wasted. There will be…
It's also about stickiness (which results in revenue and growth for the topline). If OpenAI (or any AI vendor) had one single "personality" for their AI, its hard to reach all users, they enable these "personalities"…
Agree that priorities aren't exclusive and there may be teams/individuals that aren't able to contribute if they stay in their current teams/roles Where it becomes questionable though is when enough progress isn't being…
> There's a world of difference between managing a dozen or so individual contributors vs managing senior managers / directors. I agree, but in my opinion, your point about needing to know how things work still holds.…
Could this be a good thing - yes Will it be is a different thing though. And if it’s not, who exactly is accountable? With funds and portfolio managers that run them, there’s a clear accountability model (if the fund…
Sure, still need to enable access the same info but feels like bucketing the clients into bucket1 = clients that were working just fine before (users and whatever automation they had in place) bucket2 = ai clients that…
Per a report that came out the other day, the GitHub move to Azure has been slowed down (i.e. I don't think it's done). But maybe you have newer/better info than me
Yeah, that and Microsoft has been slow to move the infrastructure to something that scales better to handle that load. The more surpassing part is that Microsoft hasn't figured out a way to manage/contain the AI-sourced…
> Every use of AI for these robs the employee culture of a genuine trust building moment. Spot on. The erosion of communication and relationships between people in the workplace (or even outside it) that AI contributes…
This is awesome to hear about. The community aspects (both being part of the community and building community) can't be understated. Thanks for sharing!
> This sounds like an attempt to rationalize the fact that your business isn't that effective, otherwise adding more people would result in making more money. Yes, or that businesses are expecting a slow down in the…
This, and the fact that AI is taking people's jobs away without (as far as we can tell) significantly creating new jobs for those people to move to. The job impact is really pissing people off, rightfully so.
+1 to all of this. The challenge can be staying focused and thinking when the AI assistant is (1) moving very fast and (2) often times doing multiple things at the same time. I know I have struggled to keep up, and fall…
From reading the text of the article, and the direct quotes, I'm also unclear on why they booed him. My guess is because of what he's done, or at least perceived to have done, in the area of AI. Because what he said (at…
New knowledge doesn't necessarily push out old knowledge, and we probably don't have infinite capacity for knowledge. That being said, at least in my experience, the time when new pushes out old is when old is less…
Relatable! Or at least making me feel dumb (at times). Things that help me feel smarter are * actually writing more on my own - created a personal blog just to get myself to write more * upleveling my thinking - think…
The problem with the current political situation/administration in the US is that there's so much existing conflict of interest going on that anytime the government investigates concerns about conflict of interest, it…
Unless I'm missing something, the linked article from MIT is about more than graduate students. That article talks about how changes introduced in 2025 are causing taxation on budgets that (as far as I can tell) affect…
Yeah, conceptually this isn't all that different from new VM SKUs coming out in clouds. The costs and rate of change for AI hardware may be higher, and perhaps enough higher to mess up the math, but conceptually its a…
Yeah that's a good callout for sure, the spending here is nuts so agree that it's not "just another business that has to price itself right to be competitive". I guess if the time horizons is long, like 20 years, then…
As long as Apple and Google put reasonable AI capabilities on device, then software engineers will use those capabilities when it makes sense (the article gives lots of good examples of capabilities that make sense to…
The article is good in that it highlights the need for AI agents/assistants to help with different parts of software development, not just the up front "build me a new widget" part. The author (correctly imo) frames…
> My point is that maybe it was intentional, but just bad UX culture. This may be valid, but even if it is someone (or a group of people) at Amazon are violating one of their core leadership principles - Customer…
To put the 14% into some context, per Google, Coinbase headcount has had the following headcount each year + 2021 | 3,730 employees + 2022 | 4,706 employees + 2023 | 3,416 employees + 2024 | 3,772 employees + 2025 |…
To expand on this a little more, the absence of accountability contributes to the loss of learning. Mistakes and errors will always happen, whether they are sourced by humans or machines. But something (the human or the…
Oh man is right! The making stuff up is going to make this problem even bigger. There will be people that correct those hallucinations, in that scenario it’s “only” the applicants time that is wasted. There will be…
It's also about stickiness (which results in revenue and growth for the topline). If OpenAI (or any AI vendor) had one single "personality" for their AI, its hard to reach all users, they enable these "personalities"…
Agree that priorities aren't exclusive and there may be teams/individuals that aren't able to contribute if they stay in their current teams/roles Where it becomes questionable though is when enough progress isn't being…