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I worked in mobile robotics for a defense contractor in the early-mid 2000s and we had a homegrown Lidar (though we always called it ladar) that was large, heavy, and cost $250k to…

Having been at Microsoft when we had SDETs for everything (and I miss it greatly, though the way we could write a feature and then just toss it to test was ridiculous), I think thi…

Sounds like an opportunity for the person who sent it to learn to improve their prompts. I've set my default claude rules to emphasize doing small-contained commits and use a stack…

Ahh good call. My $200k vs. your $200k doesn't really matter with a given year.

Salaries aren't a one-time expense, so is the amortization rolling? Like, year 1, you pay me $200k and deduct $40k. In year 2, you pay me another $200k, do you get to deduct $40k f…

+1 - a universal way of doing this via markdown beats learning whatever app-specific hotkeys I have to do to make an H3 or whatever. I don't have any particular feelings about mark…

I’ve completely been there. I burnt out hard, not from overwork, but from this type of stuff. I started to think maybe I enjoyed software engineering but not the business of softwa…

I went through this for a few years up to about two years ago, though the cause of my burnout was less overwork and more politics and things like that. I don’t feel comfortable giv…