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Every time I hear people talking about invasive species I think, “have you looked in the mirror?”

Rearranging deck chairs on the titanic much?

That's interesting. Really curious about where it's failing for you, where other models are succeeding.

Under the accounts menu in the bottom left, open Feature Preview and enable Artifacts.

I haven’t been blown away by its coding as compared to 4o. It feels similar. I use it via the chat interface and copy/paste. I’d prefer to use it directly in IntelliJ but haven’t found a plugin that doesn’t get in my way to the point of being too distracting.

The part of the Claude UI that writes code in a sidebar next to the chat is much better than writing code inline like ChatGPT.

That’s a perception and the problem isn’t the AI it’s human nature: 1. every time AI is able to do a thing we move the goalposts and say, yeah, but it can’t do that other thing over there; 2. We are impatient, so our ability to get bored tends to outpace the rate of change.

Agree. Humans, unlike other animals, film themselves mating.

Wow! Thank you!

Sometimes, in the interest of efficiency, you only use half your horsepower.

I think they are alluding to the sorts of things that Steve Blank teaches in his book The Four Steps to the Epiphany. If you're unfamiliar, it's worth a read IMHO.

That article seriously needed a TL;DR. So many words to make so little point. I thought I’d save people some trouble by providing it. Seems the crowd prefers doing it the hard way. Live and learn.

The article discusses three unexpected anti-patterns in engineering leadership:

1. Micromanagement Avoidance: Sometimes, engaging in details can prevent leaders from becoming bureaucrats and help in making informed decisions.

2. Flawed Metrics: Measuring something imperfect but useful is better than not measuring at all, helping to build intuition and understanding.

3. Umbrella Leadership: Shielding teams from external pressures can hinder their growth. Involving them in challenges builds resilience and better prepares them for the future.

These lessons are drawn from experiences at Stripe, Uber, and Carta.

“I immediately knew I was onto something.”

Every successful bootstrapper who I know personally says this.

The ultimate success didn’t happen instantly but the product/market fit was obvious on day one.

And they didn’t iterate their way to that point. They walked away from whatever they were doing before, restarted with a blank sheet a paper, and the new thing immediately resonated.

I wasn’t presenting an either or. I said some people are motivated by doing the thing for pay but not owning / running it. This is truth and many of the best agency people I’ve known are like this.

Agree. Until you’ve done it yourself, you probably won’t realize all the reasons why it appears 95% are bad and what actually matters to customers.

Be sure that market has money to spend on your services.

Best as I can tell, it comes down to your temperament. Some people love to bill the hour and work on new things without having ultimate responsibility (or upside / downside) in operating the thing. What gets you up in the morning?

Looking at the chart, it appears they’ve narrowed it down to absolutely anything.

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Perhaps they are relying on their LLM’s hallucinated definitions of open source?

> Why can't openai just be a competent drama-free org?

Because it is run by humans, for the time being.

In English?

> They get stereotyped for not wanting to ‘be a small piece of the puzzle’

That’s hilarious. We’re ALL small pieces in a universal puzzle. Inescapable.

And yeah, anyone who understands the value of their time and is in a position to make free decisions about what to do with it will not want to take your piss ant job.

Sounds awfully dreary.

"Most of the time when we make a decision that looks good, it's because we messed up before and don't want to repeat the mistake."

> most deadlines were entirely arbitrary

Yes. As are most tasks, in my experience. Looking back on your almost 30 years, what percent of tasks could have been skipped entirely and, in the long run, it wouldn't have mattered?

For me, it's easily >50% ... catch me on a grumpy day and I'd say it's closer to 90%.

> I'm not terribly convinced that software engineering is harder on someone mental health than being a ... lawyer ... is.

I am.

I worked alongside lawyers for almost a decade, providing them with non-engineering professional services. I also have a couple decades of experience in software engineering and startups.

The pressure in software engineering is something entirely different, and far worse, than what I experienced in the legal environment.

By and large lawyers are lawyers, not managers. Yes, there's a hierarchy of junior associate to senior-most partner but it's lawyers all the way up and down the chain. You don't have lawyers working under managers. And there's something about this that makes the pressures different. Pressures are there, hours are long, spouses are unhappy because the lawyers are always at work or distracted at home... but I never had anxiety attacks or mental health issues working in the legal environment whereas in the software and startup environments I did.

In legal, everyone knows the drill and you do the drill. And your superiors have done the drill.

In software, you often don't know drill. You just grind, often to satisfy someone who hasn't done the grind themselves. A company I once worked for – a successful public company – has constant openings for senior software engineers for this very reason.

I don’t know how much is microbiome or micronutrients or general diet or what, but yes, as guided by my doctors, I’ve made a few adjustments to supplements and foods that made a huge difference in anxiety and depression.

Some of the adjustments I was told affect microbiome but I don’t know why / how.

All of that said, for an anxiety attack there’s nothing like meds, in my experience, to put a lid on it real quick.

Indeed. For example, health care outcomes are way better in the US. That’s why Americans live longer than Canadians.

But seriously, it’s true that since health care costs aren’t classified as a tax in the US, the taxes in the US appear to be lower.

Those job posts are seeking engineers who show up on time and deliver their work expeditiously.