it's really not im starting to think you people either met shitty software engineers or don't understand what they do

Tomorrow's post is in the making: open.spotify.com/track/13sHYddv…

The person writing the teleprompter is in charge, not the person reading from it.

I genuinely feel bad for him that he compared the impact of a Y Combinator speech to the negotiations that ended WW2 because it's clear that he really feels that way and doesn't have anyone in his life to provide perspective on how insane that truly is

— roach-works

"We build technology and product for any kind of business, in an agile way and with the maximum level of quality" How is that a valid company's tagline? Is somebody out there purposely building stuff slow and badly?

if anyone asks, fintech is 100% dead.

🧵1/ Insightful read by Álvaro Durán on how Europe is balancing security and user experience with #3DS in #payments

Nobody who’s actually good at making money needs to sell you a course on it.

There’s a real bear case for ChatGPT and all LLMs, which is that everyone’s quickly realizing how valuable their information is and locking it down The only things left to scrape will be AI slop and self-serving garbage

AI has revolutionized my workflow! Thanks to Google being garbage and LLMs generating random bullshit I get to read official docs and original open source code more often. 👍

Not even McKinsey alumni seem to understand that a product that does everything that McKinsey consultants do, but without the brand, is worthless. You can't sell fake Hermès bags to those who buy Hermès, even if they are exact replicas. They won't buy from you. Ask yourself why

principal engineer taking over my old team reading my code, insulting me in the worst way possible: did you write java in a previous role?

“Your fingers would remember their old strength better, if they grasped a sword hilt,” said Gandalf.

When you're trying to host a keynote pregame show and you have to pause for a Denny's delivery.

“you have the bankers working late night, the tech employees… sure the AAA stuff should hold up. but do you have any idea how many burrito taxis have been securitized? how many fast food deliveries are in those CDOS? once the BBBs start defaulting, this all comes crashing down”

there is a surprisingly large amount of people that think not being able to write memory safe C/C++ is a "skill issue" I want all those people to watch & listen to this video of Azure CTO very carefully Google, Microsoft and others are very open that C/C++ is a problem