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Back in the early days of Heroku (when I worked there), we were all fairly deep into the Ruby community. Ruby has never had a great reputation for performance,
by glenngillen 3mo ago
Back in the early days of Heroku (when I worked there), we were all fairly deep into the Ruby community. Ruby has never had a great reputation for performance, but... it seemed like almost a running joke that any time you went down a rabbit-hole trying to understand some weird performance issue you'd eventually discover that @tmm1 had already identified the same issue months earlier, patched it in core, and given an hour long talk about it somewhere. Despite his ability and willingness talk publicly about quite deep technical topics Aman always came across as an incredibly quiet and humble in person. Every Ruby developer has benefited from his attention to finding and fixing performance issues. I'm sure the same can probably said for every GitHub user (where he worked for years).
Congrats to the entire Cursor team! I don't know all of their stories, but I do like to smile and celebrate a little when I see people who are often hidden in the shadows quietly making things x% better for all of millions of us every day for many years getting reward for that effort.
- ryanisnan 3mo agoEarly Heroku was fabulous. Thank you for your effort!
- killingtime74 3mo agoCongrats? Usually after acquisition comes layoffs. Especially with Elon at the helm
- missedthecue 3mo agoEspecially with Elon? It happened one time (twitter) and if you think twitter was appropriately staffed at 8k employees you need your head read. Cursor operates with a very small team, and practically all have equity, so a $60B exit means congrats are in order.
- killingtime74 3mo agoAnd Tesla twice https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-firing-solarcity-employees-report-2017-10 https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-firing-solarcity-emplo..., and https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/tesla-acquire-parts-insolvent-german-parts-maker-manz-2025-02-25/ https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/tesla-acquire-parts-in...
- missedthecue 3mo agoI'm not sure what these have to do? Tesla bought an insolvent German auto parts maker and kept all jobs it acquired. This is proof of what? In staying on track, no I really don't think there will be mass layoffs at Cursor. They have ~300 employees total.
- killingtime74 3mo agoI'm just responding to the assertion is only happened once. No context on why
- jumpkick 3mo agoAnd the United States Digital Service (USDS) aka the thing they renamed to DOGE.
- avarun 3mo agoEvery single employee who joined prior to this year will make 8 figures+ off this exit.
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