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Justin Mathew retweeted
Jun 8
A 22-year-old intern fixed a bug that 3 senior engineers couldn't solve for 6 months.
Saved the company $2M. They gave him a $500 gift card and didn't convert him to full-time.
He posted the solution on GitHub. A startup saw it. Hired him at $140k.
The 3 senior engineers who couldn't fix it? They're still there. Still getting paid. Still breaking things.
Talent gets punished in corporate. Mediocrity gets protected. That's not a bug in the system that's the feature.
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Justin Mathew retweeted
Jun 5
You're paying 40k a month for an observability platform and still SSH into the box to read logs during an incident.
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Unpopular opinion on agentic workflows:
90% of the time, you don't need an autonomous agent. You need a standard, deterministic script that runs your tools sequentially, collects the output, and hands it to an LLM for final synthesis.
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Justin Mathew retweeted
May 19
Software Fundamentals Matter More Than Ever.
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May 10
Never mind the UFO files.
Release the Epstein files.
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Apr 28
Software engineers contributing in meetings to avoid AI layoffs
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Apr 26
The concept of spending 8 hours everyday transferring wealth from your boss to your landlord
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The real reason many fear AI is because it removes the illusion of competence.
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Apr 1
Dumb people are impressed by complexity.
Smart people are impressed by simplicity.
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Justin Mathew retweeted
Apr 1
Mistakes happen. As a team, the important thing is to recognize it’s never an individuals’s fault — it’s the process, the culture, or the infra.
In this case, there was a manual deploy step that should have been better automated. Our team has made a few improvements to the automation for next time, a couple more on the way.
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Justin Mathew retweeted
Mar 22
Texas to Mangalore is about 1100-1200 nautical miles. Even if the tanker made 14 knots speed throughout the voyage, still she will take 35-36 days to complete the voyage. This means this tanker had started its voyage even before the war had started.
Mar 22
BIG
A massive U.S. LPG tanker from Texas just docked at Mangalore Port in India delivering over 16,700 tonnes of American gas to India 🔥
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Justin Mathew retweeted
Mar 10
I honestly don’t know what people are on about but any work where you let the agent going on and on …
- beyond 25-30 turns
- beyond 50% context fill
- beyond 5-6 spawned sub agents
… is going to come out not just terribly shit, but also you’ll be unable to fix that output
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Justin Mathew retweeted
Mar 7
Next time he should write a better prompt or at the end he must add “make it like a real incident, think deeply, makes no mistakes”
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Justin Mathew retweeted
Mar 6
I’ve started career in a startup which was an official ibm partner. I’ve little bit exposure into ibm I series , rpgle , db2 and COBOL.
The math looks good on paper, but $2/line code translation ignores the 'Engineering Gap.' You can't just move a 30-year-old RPG/COBOL system to Postgres on Cloud and expect the same results. AWS RDS gives you a 99.99% SLA (52 mins downtime/yr), but these AS/400 'tanks' regularly hit 10 years of continuous uptime.
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Justin Mathew retweeted
Mar 6
Those who trolls has no idea about durgasoft. Anyone who was into job search during 2010 - 2015 would know who they are, similarly a lot of others used to be there like, jspiders, jdot..etc
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Justin Mathew retweeted
Feb 28
For those who are wondering how to find this out, or how i find it out
1. Go until placing an order.
2. Inspect the console for the api call. You will see this is being triggered - airportfits.com/cgi-bin/api.…
3. If you do a curl on this : curl site.com/cgi-bin/api.py → server returned raw Python source instead of running it
4. Read the source → found DB_PATH = '../airportfits.db'
5. Translated to a URL → site.com/airportfits.db
curl -O site.com/airportfits.db → HTTP 200, file downloaded
6. sqlite3 airportfits.db "SELECT * FROM orders;" → 47 orders with full customer PII
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Feb 28
AI can write the code, but it can't feel the friction. Software remains a human utility, and only humans have the lived experience to define the problems worth solving
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