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If he kept his comments within the Zig community and didn't go all over social media denigrating GH employees, you'd be right.

He hid the comments he made and apologized to the Zig community for his behavior. He never apologized to the people he harmed (the 'losers' at GitHub in this context).

> I do feel bad for hurting your feelings but I also strongly believe that you should not be proud of working for Microsoft, and particularly on GitHub for the last 5 years. I truly am sorry but you need to be called out.

Crocodile tears.

https://hachyderm.io/@andrewrk@mastodon.social/1156234452984...

I've found that AI is decent at this.

They should have called it Atlas :)

Wild.

It depends a lot on the circumstance.

Big companies oftentimes have cultures and leadership that lead to bad code.

> If the foundation is built on sand then that needs to be fixed.

Except this is the system working as designed. Leadership 1000% wants to do things as fast and as cheap as possible.

Then you've been fortunate to work at places that respect engineering.

I think it's probably a bit of both. A good senior engineer may pick up a task and look at the system, seeing hacks duct taped together with kite string, and have the choice between "doing it right" (aka rewrite/refactor) and getting shit done.

This is really neat - does webscript.io not still exist?

Only Xzibit can do that.

He also called employees "losers"

If you only knew...

If you've worked in a large company, you know that the product reflects the priorities of the company so much more than the people who work there. Leadership states the priority and the employees do what they're told.

> You should also consider the point of view of anyone working on github and being paid by microsoft but who actually does care.

That would be easily 90% of GitHub.

All of them? Every single one of their employees?

"rookies" is an edit - he originally said "losers"

Keep up the great work!

According to Zig's financials https://ziglang.org/news/2025-financials/, Andrew himself makes more money than a few staff engineers I know there.

It is actually.

"I also strongly believe that you should not be proud of working for Microsoft, and particularly on GitHub for the last 5 years. I truly am sorry but you need to be called out."

https://hachyderm.io/@andrewrk@mastodon.social/1156234452984...

I think the MSFT ownership was pushing it along as well.

This is totally cool!

I will note that there are some Norfolk England things showing in Norfolk Virginia.

Have you compared any other factors? I find that my most consistent factor for a-fib is dehydration.

The website is now throwing a certificate error unfortunately.

This is shockingly accurate - are you a Hubber? :)

So no way to get rid of the AI portion and just have it be speakers and a camera that I wear on my face?

Darn it

Everyone wants to be a greenfield developer - even if they don't realize they are in a brown field.

This. So much this.

> Being able to navigate and reverse engineer undocumented legacy code in a non-modern stack is a skill set in and of itself.

And I find that it's a pretty rare skill to find.