Swizec

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by Swizec 5mo ago
> The 12-month engineering plan that I built 6 months ago - quarterly plan, hiring plan, integration roadmap - is now irrelevant The 12-month plan was always a fantasy. Even planning 3 months out is too slow. Things change, new informati
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by Swizec 5mo ago
> Do we have thoughts on how important "senior"/"staff" is vs bullet points on resumes and the years of service? As a hiring manager, I only read the bullet points. I’ve interviewed startup CTOs who were mid-leve
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by Swizec 5mo ago
I love that the very first thing it showed was wrong > San Pablo, California, United States > You appear to be in San Pablo, United States. Your internet provider is AT&T Enterprises, LLC. We know this because your IP address — 10
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by Swizec 5mo ago
> > Buy the most expensive thing you can afford. > For everything or specific products? I mean, it depends? You probably dont need gold laced toilet paper but a pair of shoes that lasts 10 years instead of 2 years is probably worth
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by Swizec 5mo ago
> companies are extracting every ounce of value they can from budget offerings, usually by sacrificing quality to drive down cost I grew up poor. Not like destitute or anything, we had food and all the necessary basics, but there were 3
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by Swizec 5mo ago
> Don't you get dinged as a slow performer? No because the document is not the work. Management wants someone to figure out the solution to their problems. The document is just a step in solutioning. Without the doc, others would ha
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by Swizec 5mo ago
> I basically write what I think/speak Me too. Try speech to text one day, you may find that you'll use 2x the words than you do with a typed vomit draft. I was surprised
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by Swizec 5mo ago
I write a lot and have on several occasions tried dictation as an initial draft authoring step. It was trash every time. Good for thinking through a concept but unsalvageable in the edit phase. Easier to throw away and rewrite now that you
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by Swizec 5mo ago
> Yeah, this is seemingly the only effective proxy for "write with some amount of depth." If the word count gets BS'd then it will be obvious when reading the output. My high school professors had a really good solution to
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by Swizec 5mo ago
> Reminded me of when I had to be extra wordy to meet the 1000 minimum word limit for my high school essays. Minimum word lengths are the greatest dis-service high school and college have ever done to future communication skills. It take
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by Swizec 6mo ago
> The Stasi would be the obvious cultural context. There is also the rather famous example of how earlier census data was used in the 40’s. Once the government has your data, they have it. The next generation of representatives may not f
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by Swizec 6mo ago
> You're wasting a ton of tokens doing that though. My time is worth more than tokens. I’m thinking of maybe creating some .md files to save me time in code review. If I do it right, it’s going to cost more in tokens because the rob
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by Swizec 6mo ago
> How do you collect these stats? Cursor dashboard. I know they're incentivized to over-estimate but feels directionally accurate when I look at recent PRs.
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by Swizec 6mo ago
> Are you mostly using the Composer model? Don’t really think about it. I think when I talk to it through Slack, cursor users codex, in my ide looks like it’s whatever highest claude. In Github comments, who even knows
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by Swizec 6mo ago
> I'm either in a minority or a silent majority. Claude Code surpasses all my expectations. I looked at some stats yesterday and was surprised to learn Cursor AI now writes 97% of my code at work. Mostly through cloud agents (watchi
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by Swizec 6mo ago
Yes I even used to do lucid dreaming. These days best I can do is wake up and stop dreams on command. I also regularly experience sleep paralysis. That took a lot of work to get used to.
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by Swizec 6mo ago
> NDEs happening under monitored conditions (operating tables) I had general anesthesia 10 days ago. There was no NDE, felt like they flicked an off switch then turned me back on a few hours later. They wheeled me from the prep room towa
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by Swizec 6mo ago
> let's be real, undergraduate class sizes numbers in the hundreds, for almost every first year class. I don't think it's possible to administer that Our first year class was about 250 people. It was fine. By the 4th year,
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by Swizec 6mo ago
It does! That’s why you can ask to be evaluated by a commission of professors. If you don’t pass after 3 tries, commission is mandatory. You also have a paper trail of written exams and midterms to back you up. If you keep getting good grad
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by Swizec 6mo ago
When I was in college, your grade fully depended on the oral exam/debate with the professor. Everything else was but the entry ticket. Not sure anyone even attempted to cheat in that scenario. And the conversations were usually great,
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by Swizec 6mo ago
> "I had a shower thought and I asked a chatbot to write five pages of text about it." I don't need prettier words, I need there to be fewer of them? Always judge an author by the length of their text. Decades of insights
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by Swizec 6mo ago
Screenshot in that tweet says 13 months FYI
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by Swizec 6mo ago
Gonna echo that I love my Peak Design backpack. Only backpack I’ve ever owned that delighted me so much I told others and showed it off. The design is a little dorky, especially now that every techbro in SF has one, but my god that thing ha
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by Swizec 6mo ago
> This would mean that they need sign in 20x more Spaniards to break even with the current situation. Are there 20x more Spaniards pirating the LaLiga than paying? Even in Spain I don’t think so. Is it possible the product just isn’t wor
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by Swizec 6mo ago
> May I ask where you are riding? San Francisco Bay Area. I never got into motorcycling back in Europe although the roads are lovely, the short riding season felt like a deterrent. Also the extremely long process to get a license. Here i
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by Swizec 6mo ago
> I high-beamed her and honked. She put her hands in front of her face and came to a dead stop in my lane directly in front of me. Personally I skip the honking and high beams. Just perform evasive action assuming driver will continue on
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by Swizec 6mo ago
> or even shocked (as if I appeared from thin air) Motorcyclists are invisible. Never rely on others seeing you, ride as if they're an obstacle you have to navigate. You can hide a whole truck behind the A-pillar of modern cars, l
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by Swizec 6mo ago
> something you irrationally value beyond its raw value as a service Sometimes that feeling is the value. Sure my plants don’t care if they live in a cheap plastic pot off Amazon or a nice pot from the overpriced gardening store sellin
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by Swizec 6mo ago
> Probably in 500 BC they said you had to hack at stone with a chisel for cognitive development, and then someone invented the pen and paper. You are forgetting that in 500 BC literacy rates were well under 10%. Nobody optimized for anyo

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