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It's a somewhat annoying to me as well, but I'm now able to read it and take the valuable content without getting hung up on those repetitive phrases. It also forces me to not simply copy/paste. I read the LLM output, think about it, comprehend it in my own voice internally, and then I write what I want/need by hand, so it ultimately comes out in my own style and I don't propagate the LLM output onto others needlessly.
I think the true genuinely-love-programming type of people will increasingly have to do what so many other people do, and that's separation of work and personal enjoyment. You might have to AI-architect your code at work, and hand code your toy projects on the weekend.
many/most employees
productivity is such a nebulous concept in knowledge work - an amalgamation of mostly-qualitative measures that get baked into quantitative measures that are mostly just bad data
Stark reminder that Boston VCs are about 20 years behind Bay Area VCs. Can't believe this was even worthy of a techcrunch article.
This is why I think it's strange that Coinbase is considered a crypto company. It is/was a Ruby on Rails web app. Almost like calling the CME Group an agriculture company.
I think if a startup founder is worrying about anything other than product-market-fit and customer retention then they're doing it wrong.
Haseeb Qureshi said recently on his Chopping Block podcast that it was a not-so-secret secret that FTX was the least profitable exchange of any of the major exchanges, so even if they were generating a lot of revenue they weren't making much profit on it.
Not sure if you're joking, but "we prefer to spent life with friends and family" implies that they have no interest or desire to build the next AWS.
I'm one of those people. I've programmed in a lot of languages, but it wasn't until I was introduced to Go that programming actually become fun rather than more or less a job. Everything about the language just immediately clicked for me, and suddenly I wasn't thinking about the language, but rather what could I build (and I felt like I could build almost anything at that point).
Go is about efficient compilation, efficient execution, and ease of programming.
Is anyone else an avid iPhone user, yet also someone who never uses Siri? I've used an iPhone exclusively for the past 8 years, and I can count on one hand the number of times I've used Siri. Interestingly, the one person I know who loves using Siri is my 70yr old dad.
Superhuman seems like an odd example because for an 8+ yr old startup it doesn't seem at all obvious that they have PMF yet.
I think these types of complex people problems are fundamentally unsolvable, especially if you're looking at it from the perspective of a software engineer. It's like trying to solve hiring, or solve matchmaking, or anything where people and relationships are at the root of the issue and the solution. The best solutions to these problems are still really bad because every person is unique and deeply complex in their own right.
If you want a thorough reference of C++20 and enjoy 1000 page textbooks (I do), then I can recommend 'Professional C++' by Marc Gregoire.
Business Insider is seriously just clickbait garbage articles.
The whole '10x better' thing needs to chill out. Almost every time the phrase it used it's applied to something that can't even be accurately measured. "This product is 10x better" - okay, that's probably just your subjective opinion that you're dressing up as quantifiable fact. A small # of people are much better at their jobs than everyone else - this seems to be true - but it applies everywhere and it's not always '10x'. It might actually be that someone is twice as good or three times as productive, but we still slap a '10x' on the description.
Cloud engineering roles are almost all Go based these days.
The fact that anyone still thinks American consumers are analogous to Chinese consumers is surprising to me. An American version of WeChat, although it sounds cool (maybe?) at a very high level, is incredibly unlikely to happen. Spending so much time on Twitter must have warped his perception on this one.
He's smart but he doesn't sound like an engineer at this point in his life/career. He sounds like a wealthy person who reads a wide variety of books/tweets and has range of smart but shallow talking points combined with a good deal of practiced hand waving. Chris Dixon sounds exactly like him. I wonder if Marc has written more than a 'hello, world' in the past 5-10 years. He's probably better versed in modern art and finance than he is in computer science or engineering these days.
Do you even live here? Walk around the Marina, Pac Heights, Presidio, Noe Valley, etc etc and tell me with a straight face that it's an "unmitigated disaster". If you can afford to live here (i.e. you can afford to avoid 'downtown') then you would realize that it's one of the nicest cities in the world.
A+. Nothing more needed to be said.