Randall Koutnik (@rkoutnik) 's Twitter Profile
Randall Koutnik

@rkoutnik

Twice as absorbent as the leading brand. Keeper of Useful Sarcasms. ex-Slack/Netflix he/him
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People are starting to say Elon Musk isn't actually a real engineer. But he definitely said "I don't know why people think Twitter is so complicated. I could fix it in like a weekend." And then proceeded to fuck everything up. That's exactly like an engineer.

Randall Koutnik (@rkoutnik) 's Twitter Profile Photo

So many "technical debt" discussions boil down to "the code makes the customer happy, but not the engineers" Our job is to make happy customers, not perfect code.

Randall Koutnik (@rkoutnik) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I'm laughing at how many people are responding to this with "but sometimes tech debt impacts customers!" Yes, exactly! Fix that! If it's impacting customers, then you should make your customers happy - that's what we need to focus on.

Eric Feigl-Ding (@drericding) 's Twitter Profile Photo

💡All these can be true at same time: CDC director sucks. CDC scientists save lives. Elon Musk is half-ruining Twitter. Tesla makes good cars. EVs can catch fire—but less than ICE cars. SpaceX saved taxpayers $40 bil via 🚀costs -85%. SpaceX’s Dragon saves us from begging Putin.

Randall Koutnik (@rkoutnik) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Say what you will about House Republicans, but they've gone above and beyond their core campaign goal of "get absolutely nothing done"

Kent Beck 🌻 (@kentbeck) 's Twitter Profile Photo

OH: "I swear, every company needs someone who just walks around giving developers permission to do their jobs well." Kind of describes my job.

Bring Back Web Rings! (@noahsussman) 's Twitter Profile Photo

HOLYBAAM⁷~RunJinTour:🇰🇷🇯🇵🇯🇵 Boris Beizer was the first to point out that software is hermetic in a way: there is what he called an “internal world” that is only accessible from deep technical context. Shadow initiatives are projects that only exist in that internal world. They don’t exist on the road map.

Jellyfish (@_jellyfish_co) 's Twitter Profile Photo

In his latest post, Andrew Lau discusses the Forbes announcement and the multi-billion dollar opportunity coming to #softwareengineering. Read the full article: jllyf.sh/3P5JK0e #CTO #VPE #engineeringleadership #engineeringmanagement #ai #genai