I work at Slack.
We tell employees their DMs are private.
And they are.
Mostly.
Look, when we say "private" we mean private between you and the person you're messaging.
And your admin.
And HR.
And legal.
And whatever compliance tool your company bought.
And the export
i am convinced that software devs have a speed problem
they think the #1 issues is writing code faster... its not. its fixing the code that is already there to stop being utter garbage (as a garbage code connoisseur)
quality is really lacking these days, yet quantity has never
Man how lucky are millennial devs, just as we’re getting too old and tired for this job, all the tedium gets magically removed and there’s an amplifier that makes all of our knowledge 1000x more useful (and necessary)
My manager asked how long it would take to fix the bug.
I said two weeks.
It took forty minutes.
But now I have two weeks of buffer.
That's called experience.
Here's how it works.
Every estimate I give has a multiplier. The multiplier depends on who's asking.
My manager
I am very excited about AI, but to go off-script for a minute:
I built an app with Codex last week. It was very fun. Then I started asking it for ideas for new features and at least a couple of them were better than I was thinking of.
I felt a little useless and it was sad.
Never forget that as per Garnter, in August, the best AI coding tools on were:
1. GitHub Copilot
2. AWS Kiro + Q
3. Windsurf
4. GitLab (??)
5. Gemini
...
6. Cursor
No mention of Claude Code or Codex (they were all out by then)
I pity the fool who decides based on Gartner
One look at this guy, “We don’t have anything to be worried about, this guy knows his stuff”
Video by Duncan Gillespie, aka "4holer" on Instagram, on a B-737 on approach to NY, shared in December ´25
