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Dion Almaer

@dalmaer

Bringing nuance to a knife fight, surprisingly older than @bgalbs.
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One role we are hiring for Augment is frontend engineering.

It's been so fun working with frontend engineers from a past life, and new amazing ones. In this role you are very empowered to take the time to think through what it will take to deliver a world class DX.

I find

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Something I find myself returning to frequently: How Complex Systems Fail by Richard Cook how.complexsystems.fail

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Marques Brownlee(@MKBHD) 's Twitter Profile Photo

NEW VIDEO - Rabbit R1: Barely Reviewable

youtu.be/ddTV12hErTc

This is the pinnacle of a trend that's been annoying for years: Delivering barely finished products to win a 'race' and then continuing to build them after charging full price. Games, phones, cars, now AI in a box

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Iterating is great, but you have to think of the ecosystem coming along with you. I was reminded of a UI change that was insta-rolled out to 100%.

It was a Wednesday and a poor chap was half way through a training, and when his class got back from lunch everything refreshed.

I

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After using Augment for a few months, I can say it's been a game-changer for our small team. We're able to build features with fewer people, in less time, with more test coverage to boot.

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This is my personal journey to Augment, and our vision for how to best help developers.

blog.almaer.com/introducing-au…

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I'm so excited to introduce Augment, the company where I get to focus on supporting developers, ridding them of toil and allowing them to enjoy building!

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I love that there is a ton of diversity in software. So much more than appears. It would be smart to build things that you love to build.

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True Story!

One of the many reasons I love open source is it doesn't give a damn about the org chart or 'managing up.' If people outside of FB/Meta didn't use or like our OSS then something was wrong with it.

PyTorch succeeded because of the hyper focus on developer

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“Automating menial and repetitive tasks could help me focus more on the use case and the problem at hand.”

computer.org/csdl/magazine/…

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