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bonsai_bar

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    Comment #49223969

    You mean the 8 year old shouldn't be thinking about how she will maintain this code when she's 15? This generation is lost.

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    Comment #49186454

    I'd bet my mortgage that if the first sentence was "We've got amazing products, amazing talent, and world-class compute", you'd be in the comments complaining that they didn't put …

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    Comment #49186360

    You sound like you're quite jealous of him.

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    Comment #48653269

    Doesn't seem like many are taking his side based on this thread.

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    Comment #48653255

    We take annual training that warns us against doing what this engineer did.

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    Comment #48653245

    Is it so extreme? If you work at Google, there's a very clear policy for doing any outside "work" (volunteering, an open source side project, a business, being on a board, etc.): i…

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    Comment #45806439

    Could you _be_ more condescending?

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    Comment #45104066

    > Cursor and IDE extensions are nice, but not something that generates billions in revenue. I mean Cursor is already at $500 million ARR...

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    Comment #45075497

    Gotta love that SWE arrogance.

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    Comment #45028553

    > soon no one will believe what they see on the Internet as real. Now is that so bad?

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    Comment #44537438

    Yeah, that was a pretty lazy response on my part. Let me try again. In my opinion, it takes several weeks of active use to nail down your preferred workflow with these tools and to…

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    Comment #44529693

    You're using it wrong -- it's intended to be a conversational experience. There are so many techniques you can utilize to improve the output while retaining the mental model of cod…

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    Comment #44433309

    Isn't this a little creepy? It's mimicking an identity of someone that you haven't gotten the permission to do. It feels wrong.

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    Comment #44433287

    You're a big fan but have never read his essays on Startup Advice?