big tech SWEs have "hobbies" bc they're too beta to turn them into full time jobs

“Stop hiring humans. Use AI.” Shopify’s CEO, Tobi Lutke, warned his employees last week in a leaked memo. If you think he’s wrong, I’m sorry to tell you your role will be obsolete. In the memo, Lutke wrote: 1. Before hiring a human, justify why AI can’t perform the same tasks

when ai automates corporate jobs, gonna be so funny seeing "elite" college grads question their life choice becoming middle managers in dying industries

The worst engineers we hired sounded the smartest. I’ve had to fire 10 of these engineers in the past year, wasting $500k+. The #1 startup killer isn’t running money, it’s getting duped by the wrong engineers. Top red flags of bad engineers I’ve encountered, that many think are

Since YC, we used to pay $1000s every month for contractors to enrich leads We automated the process in <30 minutes with VectorShift. Now I upload 10,000 leads to a google sheet and the workflow: - Scrapes each lead’s website - Enriches the lead with 3rd party data sources -

The perfect age to start a startup isn’t 20. It’s not 25, 30, or even 35. In 1962, Sam Walton started Walmart at age 44. By 1970, Walmart had 37 stores and IPO’d. By 1992, when Walton stepped down as CEO, Walmart had 1,735 stores and $50B in revenue. Even in tech: - Reed

We gave 10 YC startups an AI cheatcode to get ahead of their competitors in <15 minutes. They used to spend 3+ hours everyday manually copying data onto spreadsheets. We automated the entire process with GPT 4.1: - Scrapes competitors’ product pages everyday - Extracts their

⚠️ I’m the lowest-paid employee at my own company ⚠️ You heard right. As the Co-founder of VectorShift, I make less than everyone on my team. When we started VectorShift, my cofounder and I made the decision to prioritize the company and our employees' compensation over our

I’ve had to fire 10+ engineers in the past year, wasting $500k+. The worst engineers we hired were hackathon winners and organizers. The #1 startup killer isn’t running money, it’s getting duped by the wrong engineers. At Harvard, I attended multiple hackathons and realized

A Stanford undergrad told me that he attended a startup competition on campus asking students to make the most money in 3 hours. The winner won without any customers. How? While everyone else spent the 3 hours coding and getting customers, the winner called their VC friends to

Since YC, we’ve received 20k+ job applications I used to spend 5 hours every Friday night reviewing candidate assessments We automated the process with VectorShift in <30 minutes. - I upload thousands of assessments - OpenAI 4.1 analyzes each one against requirements - Adds

Truly don’t understand how people in SF don’t realize they’re living on another planet Huge echo chamber of X clout chasers and wannabe unicorn founders parroting PG essays Can’t walk 5 feet in any event without hearing “what you are building” and “how much did you raise?”

No one who’s truly cracked at building startups focuses on aura farming. Chasing tech twitter clout is like trying to be the most popular kid in high school. Peak at 17, irrelevant by 25.

If you think Steve Jobs’ #1 skill was marketing, you’re dead wrong. The real secret behind Apple’s success wasn’t his presentations or ads. It was his obsessive attention to detail to the product. Steve Jobs lived by his philosophy: “We can’t ship junk.” When people think of