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This article gives me war flashbacks about a particularly irritating OO design interview from 5 years ago.

Do these benchmarks even add any value at this point? This one is basically Cursor saying that their model is as good as the frontier ones at a fraction of the price. The independent benchmarks are probably part of training data now and the models are pattern-matching against them all the time. The final test of a model (and the harness, probably) is how good it works FOR YOU - since most of the models can pretty much do most of our tasks on a daily basis - it boils down to which one has the least friction to its usage.

My friend from work showed me this a couple of weeks ago, and now we all play it as a daily office ritual. Great game!

The sense of entitlement that people have for something they will never pay for is.. crazy.

The site loads like I'm on a dial-up connection but I'm actually on a 300Mbps fiber line. Pass.

I exclusively use Lambda with Cloudwatch Rules for all the crons I write these days. It just works out of the box.

Funny thing is that the site doesn't even work right now. Kiss of death and all that..

Lags while scrolling on a 2021 MBP as well.

I have been using Warp for the past couple of days and the autosuggestions when I'm working over SSH are pretty nifty, it probably saves me a fair amount of time everyday.

Making a login required is absolutely unnecessary, though.

Strange that Microsoft used OP's project in their game, but didn't bother to let him know.

This is not working anymore, getting 500's on every attempt.

Because India is not a democracy :)

Love your story Michael. More power to you!

One of my managers in a previous company hired me. No interviews involved.

I can relate so hard with the part which says it does not favour slow thinkers. I've faced this countless times - person at work asks me something, I reply "I'll think about it and get back to you", which inevitably leads to their disappointment.

I am okay with disappointing people, but it can be unnerving when that disappointment means I miss out on a good opportunity.

Oh great, another note taking app I can buy for $9 a month.

"..today it would not be at all surprising to find that an engineering team has built a backend using REST even though the backend only talks to clients that the engineering team has full control over."

This bit is particularly important to me personally because I have been that guy in the past. As a new grad fresh out of college, someone taught me REST and I was.. impressed. I thought it was the only way to design web backends. It was my hammer and everything else I saw was a nail.

A few years on, I can look back and understand how stupid I was.

Chaotic evil.

Great work. Also, check out if you want to add the India page of Levels.fyi to this - for a broader set of datapoints.

https://www.levels.fyi/Salaries/Software-Engineer/India/

Or maybe they didn't editorialize it because HN frowns upon that sort of thing.

This is why I love HN.

actually, a lot of young people in China are actively denouncing 996. Google 'tangping'.

I really hope that a four-day working week becomes the norm. Speaking for the tech industry, I think has been proved time and again that the output of a person is in no way directly proportional to the number of hours (or days) worked - and having that extra day to recharge our batteries will help a LOT of us focus better on the remaining days. I know for a fact that it would help me.

How to teach someone RSA without talking about RSA

Designing Data-Intensive Applications has taught me more than 90% of what I know about scalability. I can't recommend that book enough.

Anyone else thought this was about the Night's Watch in the Game of Thrones books/novels?

I'll see myself out..

If pressuring women into sex is not illegal, I really want to know which country you are living in.

I don't understand. If they are capable of changing over time, surely they are capable of looking back on their past selves and acknowledging what was wrong with them?

I'm a bit sceptical about this because it talks very little about what happened that caused OP to get "cancelled", and an awful lot about how they came back from it. I do understand, first-hand, the trauma that comes from being cancelled (although I have like 1500 followers on Twitter so you could argue the stakes are less) and there's no doubt that it is a bitch. But there is something to take away from it - or at least there was in my case - which was that I, in fact, was an asshole. That does not seem to be the overarching narrative of this post, and I do not see a lot of learning they have done from being cancelled.

In conclusion, kudos to the way you bounced back but I really wish there was a bit more introspection into how you see your past behaviour in the light of being cancelled.

Another day, another Stripe product.