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We spent a lot of time tweaking skills, doc files, and prompts. I’d say that was our primary activity as engineers. Our job became tweaking the harness every time we got code or re…

This was primarily an Electron app with some small hosted backend services

1. Yes! Many teams internally have adopted a lot of the same practices we outlined in the blog post. Ryan has also been spending time both internally and externally helping compani…

Correct on the first part, partially correct on the second. LOC is a bad metric, but it is at least a legible one. Lots of people working on better ways to measure Software Product…

At the time we wrote the article we hadn’t released the product and weren’t ready to talk about it. It was an internal prototype that looked very much like the current Codex app.

Hello! I’m one of the three engineers who write this piece. Happy to answer questions.

They did that already in the 80s, they're called Incentive Stock Options

"What are the current salary bands at your company for someone with my level of experience?"

We sync your items, settings and payment history between multiple devices. That was...not easy.

Thank you! Our in house video team is pretty awesome.

Do you know of any high traffic sites that aren't?

We pair a fair bit at Square. We require that all code either be paired on or go through code review, but let each team decide their own process. Some of the teams pair 90+% of the…

San Francisco, CA Square ( https://squareup.com/jobs ) We're going to change the way people pay. We've got some big backers ( http://www.crunchbase.com/company/square ), a bunch of…

Nope, that was definitely intentional. We pay attention to every detail here.