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by ghiculescu 1y ago
The real issue is wage expectations. In 2 ways 1) For the last decade many juniors have had unreasonable salary expectations that have often still been met. Now there is an alternative that's a lot cheaper and doesn't come with an
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by ghiculescu 1y ago
Why will it be much much worse?
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by ghiculescu 1y ago
Thanks for sharing, looks like a great interview. Tell them I'm a big fan!
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by ghiculescu 1y ago
No, not so literally. I just meant that whenever a small throwaway task comes across his desk, he does it instead of making a ticket. Lots of "small tweak" PRs. (Also, your life will get better when you delete Jira!)
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by ghiculescu 1y ago
Author here. We don't have (or want) any investors. I encourage PMs to code because it's good for the business. Otherwise I wouldn't do it. I wrote about this years before we started doing AI-backed-coding: https:/&#x2F
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by ghiculescu 1y ago
How do credibly define "non technical people" when everyone's code is written by an LLM? Serious organisations sound awful.
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by ghiculescu 1y ago
They are really good if you give them guidance and tight scope. For example for the database migrations review bot, we give it our Cursor rules file on database migrations (which is about 200 lines) and tell it to review the PR based on tha
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by ghiculescu 1y ago
That seems really high to me. Maybe you write a lot more code than anyone else around. How big is the codebase? I have a feeling that (+ the stack) has a big impact.
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by ghiculescu 1y ago
I resonate with your case (b). One reason why I intentionally don't use it is cases where I know exactly what code I want to write, and can thus write it quicker than I can explain it to Claude + have Claude write it.
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by ghiculescu 1y ago
I wouldn't say there's an obvious winner yet. I do think it depends on the person and how they like to work / how they reason about problems. For Claude specifically, people who take more time to write long detailed prompts t
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by ghiculescu 1y ago
Author here. Ask me anything! Since writing this a tangentially related thing we've added, is a github action that runs on any PR that includes a (Rails) database migration, and reviews it, comparing it to our docs for how to write goo
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by ghiculescu 1y ago
We didn’t mandate it. We just told everyone they can buy if they want to.
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by ghiculescu 1y ago
I rolled out Claude Code and Cursor to my whole company. They’re really much better than copy paste. And very affordable compared to professional developer wages. Wrote about it: https://ghiculescu.substack.com/p/nobody
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Nobody Codes Here Anymore: Notes on Rolling Out Cursor and Claude Code(ghiculescu.substack.com)
5 points by ghiculescu 1y ago|1 comments
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by ghiculescu 2y ago
Sure, it’s a great question. This is the role of sales managers. They should be ensuring that known bad deals don’t happen. Mostly by auditing every deal. Usually it’s pretty quick and easy to tell if a deal is good or bad if you are trying
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by ghiculescu 2y ago
Don’t let people sell shit deals.
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by ghiculescu 2y ago
Yes your close rate needs to be 50% for this math to work. And you only pay for demos booked from a target account or ICP list. But even with your numbers, a payback period of 6 months is very very cheap in b2b SaaS. You don’t pay commissio
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by ghiculescu 2y ago
Yeah exactly. Can’t share exact numbers but it depends on city anyway.
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by ghiculescu 2y ago
We pay out each month, but only for deals where the customer has actually paid us. I think there’s a clawback if customers churn within 3 months or something like that. It’s rarely needed.
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by ghiculescu 2y ago
I can see why you’d need software to calculate comp, if your comp system is so complex! As a case study in simplicity: our sales people get 1xMRR for each deal closed, or 2xMRR if the deal signs an annual contract. SDRs get a flat amount fo
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by ghiculescu 2y ago
Actually the main reason they exist is to reduce shoplifting.
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by ghiculescu 2y ago
No industry has 0% unemployment. Most people would kill for the employability of the median software engineer.
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by ghiculescu 2y ago
Very relatable piece, the intro felt like I could have written it (I like the URL too). “It fast” is enough for me, many of the “features” in editors are noise, and Sublime is the simplest and least noisy.
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by ghiculescu 2y ago
Say what you like about Benioff (he seems pretty annoying) or his products (happy former customer), but if you want to read a single book that will increase your chances of success in SaaS, his book Behind the Cloud is my pick.
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by ghiculescu 2y ago
Given the lack of clear ownership of the Moon, it seems unlikely that there will be a robust industrial relations framework in place before mining begins. Which seems correct to me. It's not like it's easy to accidentally end up a
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Ask HN: Best internal communications tools/approaches to replace Workplace?
4 points by ghiculescu 2y ago|2 comments
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by ghiculescu 2y ago
They’ve been shockingly bad.
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by ghiculescu 2y ago
Who will you vote for instead? Everyone supported it :(
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by ghiculescu 2y ago
What is the difference between a reserve and loss absorbing capital?
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by ghiculescu 2y ago
This article is so bias and slanted it can’t stand up straight.

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