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Has AI made you:
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A better coder
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A worse coder
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The same
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Hate your job
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Jun 8
Learning something new means you have to suck at it for a while, but people don’t want to do things that they suck at. That’s why building in public is so great, if you actually follow through on it you are guaranteed success and visibility. What happens most of the time is people make the first post about building in public then eventually give up in private, guaranteeing failure.
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Jun 6
There are people posting about how much AI is making them productive, but the only thing that has 10x’ed are their tweets.
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Jun 1
The higher someone climbs in an organization, the more likely they are to be disconnected from reality. This means if you are connected to reality, you are immediately useful to them if you see something and can get a message to them.
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May 30
The people who say “just work smarter” are usually standing on years of accumulated leverage they forgot they have. It’s like saying “the best strategy for chess is to checkmate the other player.”
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May 27
Most people can’t distinguish between “this is difficult” and “I personally dislike this.” If you can trick yourself into doing things you don’t like to do, it turns out that there aren’t a lot of difficult things out there.
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May 25
Calling someone stupid in public is the lowest form of content creation.
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May 23
Most people don’t actually fear failure. They fear embarrassment and a loss of status. Turns out nobody cares about your failures because they aren’t paying attention to you.
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May 20
LinkedIn is facing challenges with the increasing prevalence of AI-generated content. Many users feel that the introduction of certain features has negatively impacted the platform's quality. There is a strong sentiment that a different approach is needed, one that enhances meaningful interactions rather than detracts from them.
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May 20
Meta is busy making sure 2026 is the year that managers go the way of junior developers.
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May 20
We are nearing 6 months into the year. How are all of the 10x-100x engineers and their 5-50 years of work they created in 2026 doing?
I can't wait until I see what a century's worth of your code looks like.
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May 20
One of the most frustrating things is how often people confuse sounding polished with being competent. You just know how to talk with pretty words, you don’t know how to work good.
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May 18
There’s always one person on a team who creates unnecessary urgency because chaos makes them feel important. They are spamming the urgency button because that’s the only thing they know how to do. Chill dude, you don’t always have to turn up the temperature.
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May 16
Companies say they want people with “high ownership” until someone makes a decision they disagree with. Then they want “alignment”.
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May 11
A lot of productivity systems are just ways to manage too many things. The best system is to rip up your todo list and make progress on the most important thing today. That’s it.
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May 8
A lot of people want more ownership and scope at work but don’t want to be accountable when things go wrong. If you want to own the upside you have to also own the downside.
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May 2
If you need a meeting to start the work then you’ll never really start. It’s universally better to get started and then meet to fix things and to change direction.
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Apr 29
Promotions are not a reward for hard work, they are an argument that you can handle more scope. Saying that you do a good job with the work you’ve been assigned misses the point. You’ve got to show that you think at a bigger scale.
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I trust people who can explain tradeoffs clearly. If everything sounds like the “right choice,” they don’t understand the problem yet and they don’t know what a tradeoff is.
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