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I sat down with Werner Vogels, the CTO of Amazon

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Someone should tell that guy to buy a new keyboard with a working "shift" key.

Seriously, I can't understand why someone chooses to willfully ignore the most basic grammar rules just "to be different". This just makes everything harder and annoying to read.

Agreed. No capitalization is fine for Slack, but annoying in a blog. Here is a fixed version: https://gist.github.com/dmahlow/55028bd34c148514067abd80291a...

It's annoying in Slack too.

Ok.

Author of the post here. Thanks for the feedback, this was my first publish and was trying out this writing style. Noted that it doesn't go along well and changed.

Hi. I apologize if my comment sounded too snarky or even rude. But really, despite the current trend to snub it, syntax for writing texts has a reason to be, same as in programming or coding (I'm speaking in general, right now). Rules are what make a text actually readable. As an example, I often deal with teenagers and 1st graders in my job and have a really hard time deciphering what they write :-/.

Incidentally,I also believe that taking the time to write and properly format a text (be it a blog entry or an SMS) is a form of respect towards those who read it. But this last part is just an old man's rant ;-).

Appears that our author was present whilst either he gave a talk with no questions or a tame interviewer asked Werner soft questions with no follow-ups. Absolutely no pushback or challenge to anything he's reported as saying. Nothing along the lines of 'I keep reading AWS customers describing the quality of support and support staff declining over the last year or so. This seems to correlate closely with AWS push to full time RTO. How do you respond to this data?'

Wouldn’t that be jumping to conclusions?

A leading question is a totally different thing from jumping to conclusions

> a few days ago, i had the surreal experience of joining a private fireside chat with werner vogels, the cto of amazon, during startup summit 2025 in florianópolis. it's one thing to follow his talks online – it's another to be in the same room, listening to him unpack two decades of lessons from building some of the most critical infrastructure on the internet.

It seems he does indeed tell us that he was a listener in a small-audience conversation that Vogels had.

Thankfully nothing along the lines of this suggested wild speculation to try to get a rage bait headline.

Dishonest trolling is not a challenge or pushback. Nothing constructive comes out of this.

This was not a good interview, it was servile and lacked any meaningful exchange.

What’s with this trend of not capitalizing and punctuating? Are we running out of budget for capital letters? It makes the writing look sloppy and pretentious. Who is the author trying to impress?

This was a good interview. The points may seem basic but so is wisdom. Anyway it should not be flagged. We’re flagging articles like this because what - lack of use of sentence case? Because harder questions weren’t asked in some online user’s opinion?

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