things went south when we stopped hitting junior engineers

KPIs and short sighted people who want to climb the ladder have lead the slopification of the tech industry and many others

Fact: If you hold a Linux shell close to your ear, you can hear the C

2.5 years into the AI craze, and I continue to firmly believe that if your company wasn’t already interesting/succeeding without AI, then doing “whatever plus AI” isn’t going to save you. For the few that seem this way (eg Cursor), I think their moat is a lot weaker than it

synthetic data is the future. but — generating explainable and controllable synth data at Google-scale is **really** hard. stop by Peridot 202-203 at 1130-1230 today to chat w/ Hamza Harkous and me about “Orchestrating Synthetic Data w/ Reasoning”! 🦾🧠 openreview.net/pdf?id=VOoeogZ…

Happy birthday to Wolfenstein 3D, released May 5, 1992!

I’ve started joining every Google Meet 30 seconds early. When you join early, everyone’s virtual note takers join early too. I spend the first few seconds screaming about how I’m on the Titanic, we’ve just hit an iceberg, the end is near, and I need immediate assistance. I

Why does it have arms?

Soham Parekh is the Bonnie Blue of YC

We have JSON at home

The future we’ve been waiting for.

Important life wisdom.

I'm gradually become a full stack engineer. The important thing to realize as a full stack engineer is that you just put everything in one nodejs project. Full means you "fill up" your nodejs project with everything you can think of.

Same here!

Nothing warms my old, grumpy programmer hurt more than seeing FFmpeg take on those dev influencers. Burn it all down.

Ever since I was young, I knew I wanted to add value in a fast-paced collaborative environment with key stakeholders

Imo timezones are the single most deceptively complex problem in software engineering. You start by thinking "just store UTC timestamps" and six months later you're debugging why your Alpine Docker containers crash because tzdata was removed in 3.0, your MySQL Connector/J

burning man starts this weekend if youre wondering why your CEO is on pto

Deleting code is what separates us from the LLMs.

a classic