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It’s the nature of our jobs. The artefacts we produce, code and documentation are out in the open, available freely for training LLMs. That’s not true for highly qualified doctors,…

I know it’s a troll, This was no MOOC. I didn’t even get a certificate. I saw the job opening in the careers portal and just cold DM’d the HM. As to why I DM’d, what do I have to l…

I “audited” CMU 15-445 in April 2026, a few months ago. I then applied to Azure Hyperscale DB team, and as my pitch to get hired I cold DM’d the hiring manager whatever I finished …

I have been seeing this in my engineering org too. Sentences begin with “My agent said this” etc. This is frustrating on so many levels, developers don’t put any thought into the c…

Reminds me of that scene in Silicon Valley, where they show the optimistic Hooli Ad which Gavin Belson labels a “tampon ad” and then proceeds to blast his entire C-suite to outcomp…

I haven’t watched the lectures yet. Reading the papers and using Claude/GPT to ask for references etc is good enough for me. I did watch a few, ones on GFS and Raft but didn’t see …

+1 to this. I am on Assignment 3D (dealing with log compaction in Raft). I have learnt more about Distributed Systems just by "auditing" this course. For Paxos, I also recommend re…

I know the article is AI slop just by the structure, my last job at MSFT had me producing artefacts like this, which is why I quit ;) The issue with buying land outside major metro…

Meta is a cash generating behemoth. They have such a well oiled ad machine that it’s going to be a long time before they destroy themselves. Case in point, they look fine financial…

Excess verbiage in communication. Design docs, root cause debriefs etc all are clearly AI generated with little thought to whether they are helpful to the reader. They are certainl…

> So you and OP believe that, these systems are good indicators of skills, so much that the last statement sounds normal? Op here, yes I do believe, the levels aren’t perfect thoug…

Have no idea why people here are picking up on MSFT’s levelling system? I didn’t invent it.And it actually starts at L59. The point I made was that as an SSE (L63), there’s a certa…

You are not alone. I was in this exact same position at MSFT and I put in my resignation. I am an L63 but the work I was doing, was something an L60-L61 could do and I frequently f…

Here’s my take as an Indian having lived in cities like Mumbai, Hyderabad and Bengaluru 1. No manufacturing expertise in India, we aren’t a manufacturing powerhouse despite having …

Is this course still available? What about the course materials? I know it will be dated but if so can someone pls share the links. Tried searching for it on google but couldn’t fi…

It’s more nuanced than that. There are lines of business where there is plenty of growth and places where growth has stagnated or business is decelerating. In the former, you can s…

This matches my experience at MSFT. Very little work for too many people, MSFT CFO also said in the latest earnings calls that MSFT will have fewer people next year than this year,…

There’s a hierarchy amongst knowledge work and AI hasn’t yet been able to do the work that is rare and valuable. Over the past two decades, there have been lot of solved problems l…

> because the reader must now sift the synthetic context for whatever the document was originally about > time wasted using AI on tasks that did not need it, on artifacts no one wi…

I work at MSFT. I can understand the incentives behind this change. Although I am not sure how different GitHub culture is from MSFT. I am sure they are closely tracking this metri…

the Microsofties viewing their IBM colleagues as mired in pointless bureaucracy and the IBM folks viewing Microsofties as undisciplined hackers. I work at MSFT, this made me chuckl…

I work at MSFT and can concur. It’s dystopian that this is industry wide. It’s just stat padding tbh, things that people can bring up during their performance discussions, oh hey I…

Random reward mechanisms have been woven into the very fabric of the digital world, so doesn’t surprise me.