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The first sentence is quite telling >We’ve got amazing talent, world-class compute and products… Products are third on the list. Google is an incubator for talent first and foremos…

Both the fact she spent 2 years at MS as a Marketing employee out of college and 4 years after she left MS she was VP at Facebook are true simultaneously, check the Wikipedia link …

Please provide a rebuttal. 4 years from a marketing role they were in out of college at Microsoft to VP Product and Engineering at Meta?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asha_Sharma Bachelor of Science in Management from University of Minnesota Marketing role at Microsoft 2011-2013 out of college, standard average coll…

Ponzi scheme stock market is also relevant here. Productivity will max out if RSI AGI doesn't pan out.

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His apology seemed AI generated as well

Product managers at Google have a strangehold on their bad releases. It's become a whole thing for engineers to have to please their XFN (cross functional) partners in product and …

Stock is down more than 12% over the past 5 days. I think Meta still has a strong hold on the online advertising market, but growth from here is hard. Noteworthy stats: EPS $6.18, …

Stock is down quite a bit after hours. I think Meta still has a strong hold on the online advertising market, but growth from here is hard. Noteworthy stats: EPS $6.18, missing the…

Adding another anecdote, but Pangram flagged an essay I wrote last week as AI-assisted when it wasn't. I take Pangram results with a grain of salt now.

I don't think this specific post is a dupe.

"Shield the team from the business." The assumption underneath this one is that attention is finite and context switching is expensive. That assumption is intact. What changed is t…

I have both experienced and hear my coworkers across the tech industry complaining about having to parse slop from their peers, management and juniors they work with. AI comments o…

You still need handholding, you can’t just give a few junior devs Claude Opus 5 and expect them to recreate Instagram in a few weeks. Frontend and backend basics sure, but security…

I very much agree with this. Even the top tier models today, without the unit tests, without integration tests, and domain experts reviewing the code would flounder for 50% of the …

I've been seeing quite a few companies juicing short term margins and quarter to quarter maxxing even more than before, one such example: https://x.com/MaxAnderson/status/208022937…

> Where is the Fable-class Kimi model at all? 6 months away

People are positing she is saving face by claiming medical issues. She doesn’t seem to provide much value, whether its based on feedback from employees where she’s worked or the pu…

I don't think this essay by PG is sufficient to teach them log bases or compounding, and is manipulative to assume now that someone knows 2 million doubling 9 times is a billion, t…

Uncle "Sam" is ironic here, alternative man one might say

Anthropic is big hall monitor energy. Clownish behavior and exaggerations constantly. A holier than thou attitude derived from rationalists at LessWrong.

What do you mean people used to do a lot better? As far as I know https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect was a thing until recently. The human body is quite complex as well. Gr…

Why did a PM create the merge request? It seems like internal testing brought up issues, why was it merged regardless? Is velocity a metric you were aiming for when merging this?