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It’s hard to overstate the reputation of the author of this post. Everything good about GitHub’s internal systems seemed to have his name all over it (I realize that today this statement hits different than a few years ago). Our times at GH didn’t overlap much but hearing the fact that he’s working at cursor increases my estimation of their engineering org by leaps and bounds.

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The biggest, richest companies in the world are hiring top talent. Who woulda guessed.

We're talking about MSFT here. I think they can afford whatever Cursor can. They're just not taking reliability seriously.

It’s a different game. If you’ve got tonnes of employees you have to think about how all the other employees view comp fairness.

Every large co runs into this problem. New cos have fewer obstacles to paying more… until they get big.

Came here to share a related fact :)

This solution with WAL and compact resembled the database internals as taught by Martin Kleppmann.

I asked Claude about this observation, and learned that the author (Vicent Martí) wasn't only core Github developer but also worked on Vitess from PlanetScale.

So no surprise these two contexts resulted in the design of Continuity as it is.

https://vitess.io/ - Vitess is a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL.

Author or not - I just get a shitty machine translation of the original post into German. This is so annoying, machine translated stuff is much harder to read than the original English.

Oh, and yes the preferred language in my browser is set to English.

thanks for the comment ! will read that now

however whether or not this improves their team - who knows! team dynamics is a hard thing to achieve, not just throwing good people in the same bucket ..

If he has such a good reputation, why doesn't he write well? He never actually introduces the point of the article, he merely alludes to it in the concluding paragraphs.

Seems well written to me.

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