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by ctvo 3y ago
> I put in more than 300 hours of study. It wasn't superficial and I didn't attempt to memorize anything — I wanted to understand fundamental techniques, and put a considerable amount of effort in to doing this, treating it as
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by ctvo 3y ago
> In my 32 years in the industry the best performing companies always did these things regardless of the macroeconomic climate. Agreed. Creative, high performing people don't do well in a work environment that's structured like
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by ctvo 3y ago
> The actual engineering hasn't been as affected or rather while it has been affected it hasn't been affected to the magnitude that you might expect given the size of the lay-offs. Are new features being added? Honest question
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by ctvo 3y ago
> In 2023, I practiced ~200 leetcode problems and learned how to create an LLM but I felt like I was the least employable I'd ever been. You did two superficial things and are surprised you didn't feel more qualified? Practicin
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by ctvo 3y ago
The job market isn't uniformed across all experience level and roles. You didn't specify, but I'm going to assume you're not new in your career. It's just fine in the US for staff engineer+ experience level also. Ne
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by ctvo 3y ago
1-way and 2-way doors in the Amazon lexicon is useful. Worth noting: Most decisions are 2-way doors. Very few decisions are 1-way doors. It takes experienced folks to identify true 1-way doors and apply the brakes. Having a culture of tho
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by ctvo 3y ago
I don't use Copilot and know a handful of Fortune 50 companies that won't use it either. Developers do silly things like hard coding credentials when they're testing, as a very basic example, and it's hard to imagine how
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by ctvo 3y ago
> We take data and code security seriously! Our products do not send more data to the LLMs than needed. Neither we nor our service providers use your data or code for training any generative models. For stricter requirements, we will mak
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by ctvo 3y ago
Amazon's layoffs are a percentage of corporate workforce, not their ~1.5 million warehouse + corporate pool.
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by ctvo 3y ago
I think trying to normalize a ~20% workforce reduction as business as usual is a little bit much here. Management made a lot of mistakes to get to this situation. It wasn't we tried a few things and it didn't work out, it was we
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by ctvo 3y ago
> 3. An engineer being 400k TC is an anomaly, Spotify does not pay any of it's Swedish engineering force nearly that much, and since we don't know the demographics of the layoffs it's hard to argue engineers anyway. (Citat
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by ctvo 3y ago
A single engineer is 400k in total costs, and they hired thousands for initiatives that didn’t pan out. Thinking cloud costs come anywhere close to being a factor here is nonsense and not supported by anything in the article. You extrapolat
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by ctvo 3y ago
Where in the article did you see cloud costs being the reason for this layoff? > Spotify is cutting almost 1,600 jobs as the music streaming service blamed a slowing economy and higher borrowing costs in the latest round of redundancies
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by ctvo 3y ago
> Compare that to AWS Lambda: 1. build you code, 2. pack into a zip file, 3. make sure the S3 bucket exists, 4. upload the zip to the bucket, 5. deploy lambda, 6. update API gateway... And don't even get me started on Cloudfront - e
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by ctvo 3y ago
> I understand the need for such a thing, but the wild amount of indirection that is needed in microservices world is astounding. What does this have to do with microservices? I'm trying to debug my monolithic service: Was it the d
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by ctvo 3y ago
> I find it hard to believe this was the kind of environment he was cultivating at OpenAI if 95% of the staff were ready to follow him out the door. I work for a startup that's on the cusp of having an exit event valued at 70 billi
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by ctvo 3y ago
Now this is a clown show car wreck. I think a bunch of us were giving these people the benefit of the doubt that they thought things through: Whoops.
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by ctvo 3y ago
> If talent starts leaving OpenAI and join Sam at Microsoft, what does OpenAI have left? This is a real possibility and something I'm sure Ilya and the board thought through. Here's my guess: - There's been a culture rif
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by ctvo 3y ago
Saying it and doing it are very different things. Many huge, lumbering companies have a “startup” lab. Few have done anything of note, and typically it’s because the reasons that made the company move slow and not take risks don’t magically
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by ctvo 3y ago
The only shocking thing about this whole episode was how many people in the media failed to understand just how much power this board had. They were, at no time, under any obligation to do anything except what they wanted and no one could f
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by ctvo 3y ago
The other likely scenario: investors are using their media connections to push a narrative to get OpenAI to take Sam back, not necessarily Altman himself. With this being the hottest story, any credible gossip from a known name would be en
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by ctvo 3y ago
Ah yes, no other company would step in and get this deal from OpenAI if Microsoft pulls out. It's not like Amazon and Google pump billions into the OpenAI competitor.
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by ctvo 3y ago
Paul Graham saw this guy and immediately went “pattern matches my ideal genius”. My goodness.
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by ctvo 3y ago
This happens every time Amazon announces something and is a great opportunity to buy on the cheap as Amazon fails a year later. See online pharmacies, health care, real estate (!), loans.
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by ctvo 3y ago
Employment is at-will for both parties in the US. You can break your employment agreement (contract) as a salary worker at anytime. The contract is: Do what we ask and we continue to pay you a salary. We're asking you to come into the
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by ctvo 3y ago
Contrary point of view: Extraordinary circumstances allowed you to stay remote during a pandemic. Now that it's over, it's fair and expected that they want you to come into the office. Your original contract with them was you bein
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by ctvo 3y ago
> Every brand has their own resale laws. Nike / Gucci / every high-end brand has resale laws?
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by ctvo 3y ago
> Adobe seems to be taking good care of Figma. And so on. Adobe hasn't finalized its purchase of Figma yet.
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by ctvo 3y ago
It's a mixed bag of Google's internal infrastructure is amazing, but the company has culture and operational challenges. Just from the bottom half, mostly headings: > Most problems aren’t worth Google’s time, but surprising on
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by ctvo 3y ago
> The real problem is that "clean code" is completely arbitrary and if you ask 10 software engineers you'll get at least 5 different answers because this really boils down to preferences. I disagree. I'll take a bet

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