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I'm looking for some concrete examples of any AI advancements actually causing someone to financially prosper where they didn't before. Most of the examples I can think of make som…

I see an iceberg ahead, captain.

A while back, I stopped using Facebook because I just couldn't take it anymore. Just totally sick of it. I'm honestly getting there with AI. At this point, I would prefer to have a…

Tesla is a premium product - if someone is going to use FSD they know its a luxury feature and should pay for the most comprehensive safety features available which in my mind woul…

I'm a former Lyft & DoorDash engineer exploiting a talent loophole. Mission: get startups access to senior & principal big-tech engineers at a 90% discount and without hemorrhaging…

seems it.

Low Touch Advisor The dream: “click a button to get a senior engineer added to your slack.” It’s a side hustle for awesome engineers. My first customer has me looking for e6+ or cl…

I'm on the build team at DoorDash. We're in year 1 of our Bazel monorepo journey. We are heavy into Go, already have remote execution and caching working, and are looking to add su…

In my experience: Ruff is great because you need to lint your code all the time and you could save maybe 1 minute per CI. As for Python package management, my team is migrating to …

My team is looking for new ideas for setting up a complex system that would be much simpler and more scalable than “microservices”, which still seem to be a standard, even though w…

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What would be great is a product that is specifically designed to help you deal with a GitHub outage. Oh, GitHub is down? Flip this switch and your developers can somehow keep work…

I think GPT is really neat. However, it cannot solve even the most basic reasoning problems I tried. It feels like it understands what I'm asking for and it provides good answers, …

I'm mostly used to Python programming.. I seems like the Java/Kotlin world largely might be sort of used to waiting 30+ seconds for a recompile after making even a 1 line code chan…

It seems like GitHub is getting worse every quarter. Why can’t they operate it in a reliable way?

Somehow, ruff is linting my entire codebase 350x faster than pylint did.

I'm looking for the best way to allow engineers at my company (1,500 engineers) to manage their GitHub repo settings via "configuration as code". The GitHub repo settings UI webpag…

People are saying that one of the founders sold $150m+ of their equity and the vc's couldn't stop them... and proceeded to get a 70 foot yacht. With no remaining incentive to build…

How could this all happen? Is there no regulation?

Former Lyft engineer here. I'm convinced they will go out of business or sell the scraps to someone... however smart acquirers like Elon wouldn't go near it. Rideshare sucks.

16 years ago, my first Bay Area engineering job was at Reputation Defender. I helped create their first product - the EXACT same thing it looks like Optery is making. Make no mista…

Our team has been looking at Spinnaker for a while now (as well as Spinnaker vendors) but we are disappointed with the large number of bugs in the Spinnaker ecosystem. Every time w…

I've been dealing with Python for 8 years at 2 big tech companies in the Bay Area. The main advantage in Python is that it's easy to learn. It just doesn't scale. Once things start…

So far, the whole thing sounds like a modern version of going to milliondollarhomepage.com with a VR helmet. I'm an engineer - please help me understand what I'm not getting.