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Thanks, I did not see this. It appears to be flagged. Do you know why?

Here are some real examples from our projects in 2025 at SIROC (for context: we are a 18 people venture studio; 140+ projects completed):

* A task estimated at 4 hours → solved with one well specified prompt

* A 20 hour engineering effort → executed in about 3 hours

* A 3 month project → delivered in 1 month

These are clearly best case scenarios. They are not the norm, yet. But they demonstrate what is possible.

We have also seen what happens when things go wrong. Companies, including startups, come to us with broken systems and spaghetti code and architecture caused by weak prompts, unclear requirements, and no verification.

It is important to understand that the efficiency gains we are seeing do not come from the tools alone. They come from a specific combination:

1) Engineers who have spent 20 years building everything from robotics to enterprise-scale technology. You cannot give a perfect instruction to an AI if you do not know what perfect looks like in a production environment.

2) A technical prompt should not be treated as a quick input or question. It is a detailed specification that requires experience and deliberate thinking.

3) Knowing the right combination of tools, workflows, and validation processes.

That said, some (many?) members of our team are dinosaurs in the software engineering world. They bring a ton of experience but are used to tools from 15 years ago and don't like change. We really had to push AI adoption (mostly Cursor and Claude Code) on them. It’s still an ongoing process, and probably will be for a while.

SEEKING WORK: Remote (USA + EU) | https://siroc.com/

We are a small senior-only team of former startup founders and engineers who act as the technical engine for startups and scale-ups. We skip the junior developers and project managers to focus on high-speed shipping only. What we do:

* For Startups: We act as fractional co-founders, turning napkin ideas into investor-ready products. We’ve helped founders take ideas to $20k MRR in just a few months

* For Scale-ups: We audit and rebuild tech stacks to handle 100x growth.

* Our Background: Our team originated at Stanford. Our track record includes building core infrastructure for high-growth tech startups and global platforms. We’ve delivered 140+ projects over the last 20 years.

Our guarantee: We deliver a working product in under 90 days, or you don't pay.

If you’re a founder who needs a senior strike team to take full ownership of your roadmap, email me at hello@siroc.com

Also this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_accidents_and_inciden... with a good table overview

Found a Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incident...

Supposedly a Boeing 787 Dreamliner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_787_Dreamliner

It’s probably just a coincidence, but there seem to have been significantly more aviation incidents in the past two years than in the previous 40 years of my lifetime.

https://archive.ph/oWYBQ

https://archive.is/kbo55

NextDNS is great for that: https://nextdns.io/

This is the first brief article from El País, a leading newspaper in Spain: https://elpais.com/economia/2025-04-28/apagon-electrico-masi...

Translated version: https://elpais-com.translate.goog/economia/2025-04-28/apagon...

Confirmed by contacts on the ground in Spain and Portugal.

Not the best news source, but it’s the only one I’ve found so far. HN moderators, feel free to replace it later with a better one.

Supposedly also France is affected (unconfirmed)

I just realized that Google Docs now has tabs, allowing multiple pages within a single document. Very similar to how we use Notion for writing down documentation, SOPs and general company information.

Has anyone tried this feature yet? Do you think it's enough to replace Notion for wiki-style documentation?

Here’s more information on the actual technology being used:

- https://aerominetechnologies.com/

- https://youtu.be/OkRqVBpO2BQ?t=218

- https://youtu.be/VnSZ0MHIcvs?t=238

I’m not associated with it. I was just curious and looked it up myself.

Curious, what are good alternatives to what TC used to be?

18 months actually: https://www.wiz.io/blog/100m-arr-in-18-months-wiz-becomes-th... (was just curious and looked it up)

"[...] it looks like the original story was written by German writer Heinrich Böll in “Anekdote zur Senkung der Arbeitsmoral” (“Anecdote concerning the Lowering of Productivity”) and published in 1963."

Source: https://www.sloww.co/tourist-fisherman/#

"Powered by an advanced version of the DALL∙E model from our partners at OpenAI"

Thanks! Appreciate the lesson :-)

What do you mean with "it blew up"? It sounds kind of negative, but from the next sentence it sounds positive. I'm confused.

Thanks for your input! I think we have been at those points ("fat and happy") a couple of times and I noticed it, because I especially got bored myself. Luckily I have to say, we quickly got to a point again where another problem or challenge presented itself.

Also our business doesn't have huge profit margins like some of the big tech companies. So financially we're always somewhere between "it is not critical, yet", but also never reach the "100% comfortable".

Thanks! I'll get that fixed :-)

Sure. If you live in the US and want to work for us and want a Silicon Valley market salary at the same time, then we're not the right company for you. Not because we don't want to pay you a Silicon Valley salary, but simply because we cannot afford it.

If you are in another country/market, then we are very able to pay market salary and in most cases even above market salary, while providing a great work environment at the same time. We have and had people from Ireland, England, Germany, Spain, Italy, Brazil, Croatia, Serbia, Mauritius, Thailand, Azerbaijan, Austria, Thailand, Argentina and probably a couple more that I forgot now.

So basically what I wanted to say: just because we cannot afford a Silicon Valley market salary, doesn't mean we are underpaying people elsewhere or treating them unfair (financially speaking).

I hope my answer helped to clarify things.

Yes, we're completely open to having partners and kids around at our events. We actually encourage it. I myself have a child now and am looking forward to taking her to our next event. We're also looking into options of having a nanny. Depending on where we go and what we do.

I hope people don't see this as spam (especially since in the past I've talked a lot about this), but I've started Mobile Jazz (my first company) specifically because I wanted to created a place where I and others feel happy. A place where increasing revenue and profit to the extreme is not the focus, but employee happiness is. We call it "Optimizing for Happiness".

We've written a lot about it in our company handbook https://mobilejazz.com/company-handbook-pdf/ (free to download, no email required) and you can find more stories and details on our blog if interested.

COVID has made things more difficult, especially since pre-COVID we did a lot of events together (skiing, surfing, hiking, co-living, workations, etc.) and not meeting up has definitely harmed our sense of belonging and purpose. So we're very much looking forward to having events again this year.

Basically what I wanted to say: People are currently jumping around a lot in their jobs, looking for the highest salaries and finding a purpose and a place they belong. We somehow have managed, despite not being able to match Silicon Valley salaries, to have a really good team of loyal, friendly and kind humans that gives me joy to get up every single day and to work with them. And with most of them it's similar, since many of those people have been staying with us since they've joined us. Despite getting better offers (financially speaking) every day.

Article is from 2009. Nevertheless interesting to go back in time and see what has changed. Or hasn't.

We have a shared Google calendar called "Family" where we put family events for ourselves and the kids.

Then we use Google Keep for quick TODO lists and shopping lists.

For recurring events (admin, payment reminders, car maintenance, etc.) we use Asana projects. Or we create an Asana project to plan our trips, which are usually very individualistic.

We also have Asana templates for checklists and packing lists.

Google Drive to store scanned documents, admin paperwork and docs and spreadsheets for various long-term notes.

A lot of people we know think that this might be overkill and that we are crazy for setting up a "complex" system like this. Truth is, we never forgot anything and never have to worry either. This frees up our minds to "work" on more creative things.

My wife never used systems like this before and she now recommends it to all her friends and family.

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