codingwagie

Right but you cant expect perfect implementation, as the complexity of the business needs grows, so does the accidental complexity.

I think this works in simple domains. After working in big tech for a while, I am still shocked by the required complexity. Even the simplest business problem may take a year to solve, and constantly break due to the astounding number of edge cases and scale.

Anyone proclaiming simplicity just hasnt worked at scale. Even rewrites that have a decade old code base to be inspired from, often fail due to the sheer amount of things to consider.

A classic, Chesterton's Fence:

"There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, “I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.” To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.”"

ive wasted so much time fiddling with notion documents

JetBrains product quality has really gone downhill.

theres alot of wealthy people in NYC and its only increasing. in neighborhoods like west village or soho, the majority of people are not working corporate jobs. they are paying 7.5-20k a month in rent out of their pockets.

I think coding manually is like doing wood work manually, its going away. I am planning my exit, expecting it to take a few years for me to fully leave the field. But I want out, and this is coming from someone with a ton of FAANG experience.

It took me a long time to learn this

AI is way underhyped, its just going to take society a long time to integrate this tectonic shift into our existing ways of working

hahaha

the founder went to harvard, is basically the answer

Financial engineering is why people are poor. They are literally competing for goods and services with investment firms.

I've commonly seen grants like this diluted to almost zero. I would think carefully and strategically about how you can get some sort of value for the equity you vested. Its probably harder than you think to get decent liquidity on it.

there are deep reasons for why society is not like this anymore

This works for UX. I give it vague requirements, and it implements something i didnt ask for, but is better than i would have thought of