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The confounding factor here is the size of the company. You are saying, more than "I like managers who contribute technically (whatever that means)", that you like working for smal…

Despite the proclamations of torment, suffering, and unwillingness to do it, but, they say, "such is life and this is what needs to be done", I often found in CEOs announcing big l…

I am repeating what many have said. Nevertheless, it is becoming clear that LLMs can increase productivity (in certain areas and at certain times) for people who are already knowle…

Yesterday, I used Gemini to evaluate some pictures I took. It said things like, "This is great! Beautiful eye and sense of proportions." Then, when I added "no sycophancy" to the p…

This weekend, I received confirmation that, for data analysis and modeling, coding agents represent a qualitative leap forward comparable to the widespread adoption of personal com…

It may appear so, in the sense that I would think the same if I were the one reading my comments, but, even if I am sure that my resume could be improved (I worked on it multiple t…

At first, I was a bit selective about my applications (meaning I was applying to maybe 5 positions per week, not one per month), but in the last six months, I have sent dozens of a…

This could be a problem, but only if I had interviews or even just a phone call from a recruiter. But I'm not even getting to that stage. I just get rejection after rejection via e…

Being rejected every day, thus subjecting myself to the humiliating ritual of modern times, by companies that I believe could make the most of my talent (my last title was Director…

Without getting into a she-said/he-said debate, I don't believe traffic is shrinking because of the viability of fewer engineers. If that were the case, it would also be easy to hi…

As a casual user, I don’t think it works any worse than Facebook or Instagram or TikTok. I remember that for years people complained about DMs in Twitter being “broken” and without…

I don’t think it is true at all. The recommendation algorithm they implement is a choice they make, it is not that if they had more engineers they would deploy a “better” one. Ever…

I have no professional, personal, or parasocial ties to Musk, so you can safely continue without this having any effect on me beyond a normal conversation, even if contentious. I w…

One needs to tease apart the effects of Musk and Musk's "policies" on advertising investments, number of users, the boom and slow decline of social media platforms (see Facebook, I…

Anyone who has worked in the big tech industry knows that probably more than half of the workforce performs tasks that, in essence, are superfluous. But these things happened: 1) M…

Autogenic training is a practice that works wonders for your ability to control yourself under pressure, whether in specific situations, in the spotlight, or under more mundane pre…

Being intentional in what we do and learn, and practicing it consistently, inevitably changes our lives. We mostly live on autopilot, without thinking about what we love to do or w…

You don't believe the current version of Claude Code will be able to write complex software on its own. On the one hand, there is a lot of hype, an incredible amount, actually, but…

After two weeks of viral posts, articles, and Mac Mini buying sprees, as it's been happening up to now for every AI product that was not an LLM, it kinda disappeared from the consc…

While I find the aspiration noble, it seems to me that we don't even know ourselves what we want, or, alternatively, we re-discover every day how our revealed preferences differ fr…

Architects went from drawing everything on paper to using CAD, not over a generation, but over a few years, after CAD and computers got good enough. It therefore depends on where w…

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I do not doubt that AI and AI-powered and -native applications will become part of the fabric of our personal and professional lives. What I don't understand is why, outside of "be…

It all depends on the use one makes of it. It can become an indispensable asset over time, or a tool that can be used at certain times to solve, for example, mundane problems that …

"Firstly, when you ask a friend or colleague you're asking a favour that you know will take them some time and effort. So you save it for the important stuff, and the rest of the t…