codingwagie

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   by codingwagie 2y ago

   Dude just go look at the founders at ycombinator, huge percentage went to top schools. They only interview them for 10 minutes. Without some kind of proof of being able to run a startup (MVP and traction), capital is allocated based on educ
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   by codingwagie 2y ago

   No its that it will code a days worth of work in a few minutes
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   by codingwagie 2y ago

   You dont understand how powerful LLMs are. Go use claude sonnet 3.5. Paste in 1000 lines of code, and describe a code change you want to make. Iterate on the solution it gives. Do this for a week.
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   by codingwagie 2y ago

   I really do think that software engineering as we know it is ending. It will take 3-5 years for tools like this to mature. But it will happen, and hard fought skill sets like SQL database design, query design, and maybe even ORMs will becom
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   by codingwagie 2y ago

   I'm saying at the seed stage, in nyc, the funding is like 80% ivy league grads
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   by codingwagie 2y ago

   I live in NYC and have raised capital/am part of social networks of founders in NYC. I have first hand experience with this, I understand the game really well. The schools absolutely are gatekeepers.
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   by codingwagie 2y ago

   The bet is that if they fund 20 Harvard grads, one of them might be like Gates. Even if the rest are duds. The math still kind of works out, they need an outlier.
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   by codingwagie 2y ago

   1. Went to a top school Prestigious people are essentially handed capital. This drives most of the funding at the very early stage. A random founder with no connections or background needs an MVP product with real traction, and even then ma
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   by codingwagie 2y ago

   Alright sir! I may have a look with my current nextjs project.
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    by codingwagie 2y ago

    Auth doesnt need a new service/company. It needs an ai chatbot that walks engineers through adding auth to their project. Its the developer experience that is the problem
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    by codingwagie 2y ago

    Its usually a distilled smaller model
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    by codingwagie 2y ago

    I think it will take a long time for the world at large to realize and then operationalize the potential of this "mundane" technology. It is revolutionary, and also sitting in plain sight. Such a huge technological shift that was
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    by codingwagie 2y ago

    Yeah ha, this was literally my thought.
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    by codingwagie 2y ago

    You don't want heroes at large companies with top down product management. You need heroes at small innovative startups. This write up is more of a documentation on the stagnant culture inside google
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    by codingwagie 2y ago

    AWS itself was one of the biggest innovations in technology, of all time. Cloudformation, IAM policies, and creating these services as independent composable blocks was revolutionary. S3 was completely new, and is still a dominant force in
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    by codingwagie 2y ago

    Those are just churn and burn lower level employees. I am talking about at the L7+ level. L6 and below is almost a completely different company. I have worked on major tier 1 services in every major part of the company: Retail, Alexa, and A
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    by codingwagie 2y ago

    I'm a long time Amazonian. The big problem is legacy employees run every part of the company. Almost any manager of managers has been at Amazon a long time, in that same job for a long time. There is no upward mobility at the company,