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cra.mr 19d ago

Building an Intern

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ghiculescu.substack.com 4mo ago

What we should expect of software companies in an AI coding world

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joelmjensen.com 4mo ago

Why isn't AI diffusing faster?

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ghiculescu.substack.com 4mo ago

Lessons from Building AI Features

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ghiculescu.substack.com 11mo ago

The LLM App Layer

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news.ycombinator.com 11mo ago

Ask HN: How do you get your devs to understand your customers?

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ghiculescu.substack.com 11mo ago

AI coding is plateauing but also accelerating

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ghiculescu.substack.com 1y ago

Nobody Codes Here Anymore: Notes on Rolling Out Cursor and Claude Code

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news.ycombinator.com 1y ago

Ask HN: Best internal communications tools/approaches to replace Workplace?

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ghiculescu.substack.com 1y ago

I Use Claude

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twitter.com 1y ago

Layoffs at Fly.io

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ghiculescu.substack.com 1y ago

Do You Want the Customer?

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Ask HN: What spending commitments do you have with AWS?

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Tell HN: Someone should start a React Native upgrades / maintenance business

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ghiculescu.substack.com 2y ago

What to think about when making your first hire

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ghiculescu.substack.com 2y ago

Looking back on SaaS product strategy

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ghiculescu.substack.com 2y ago

Product Management by Walking Around

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ghiculescu.substack.com 3y ago

Opening the Codebase Up to Everyone

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ghiculescu.substack.com 3y ago

Dealing with Delinquent Customers

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ghiculescu.substack.com 3y ago

“What did you work on today?”

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ghiculescu.substack.com 3y ago

11 years of hosting a SaaS

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ghiculescu.substack.com 3y ago

Finding Early Customers for Your Startup

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ghiculescu.substack.com 3y ago

Accidental Bureaucracy

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ghiculescu.substack.com 3y ago

Office NIMBYs

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staysaasy.com 3y ago

Finding and Fostering Great Product Sense

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ghiculescu.substack.com 3y ago

You don't need to go to university to work at a startup

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How to think about technical debt

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Culture Is Free

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Software companies that sell software to other software companies

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You'll know when you have Product-Market Fit

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You were together all your adult life - you’re not two people anymore, you’re cleaved as one.

And now that’s been severed. It will hurt.

New hobbies and getting your mind off things won’t cut it. If this was a physical injury you wouldn’t recommend someone start a new sport. Your soul is injured.

If the partnership is totally irreconcilable (or if it’s something more tragic, then my condolences) then you just need to accept that and take the time to heal. But is it irreconcilable?

Good luck.

iPhone 17e 5 months ago

I just bought a refurbished SE. It works great with newest iOS, Liquid Glass, etc. Do it!

Along the same lines, I am rewriting a React Native app into native Swift and Kotlin versions. I haven’t written any of the native code directly - it’s all vibed. It’s not C but there’s a lot of upside in letting Claude Code compile my wishes into native languages and skip the RN layer.

If the accessibility and hygiene laws can be explained in plain language, why not just write them in plain language?

If labor laws can be automated by software why not just make them simpler?

If you can make a map to explain the permitting process why not just simplify the process?

If you made the regulations less complex and excessive you wouldn’t need to add another layer of bureaucracy to explain them.

Operating Margins 8 months ago

This is true. But there’s another side to it too, which is that if the industry was more profitable it would (probably) attract more investment, specifically in the form of new companies.

Reading this you would think the US is the only country in the world. Why can’t any other country - one that’s more politically or ideologically aligned - fund the PSF? It seems odd the gripes about the US government and its ideologies as if there’s no other options.

(Not an American.)

If that’s the case, then why do companies run bug bounties?

I’m asking earnestly; it seems like if nobody actually cares about these gaps then there shouldn’t be an economic driver to find them, and yet (in many companies, but not Burger King) there is.

Is it all just cargo culting or are there cases where company vulnerabilities would be worth something?

When I got surfing lessons last summer, all the instructors agreed that sunscreen is pointless. Technically it works but you’re in Queensland, you’re either gonna sweat or get wet, and then it doesn’t.

They all swore by zinc, rashies, and wide brim surf hats. 60 year old Trevor who surfs every day and has never had a mole might just be lucky but somehow I doubt it.