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Raidion commented on 6 weeks of Claude Code blog.puzzmo.com/posts/202... · Posted by u/mike1o1

GiorgioG · 5 months ago

> They also cost at least 100x the price.

Because right now AI companies are losing their asses - it costs significantly more than what they are charging.

Raidion · 5 months ago

I've been telling people, this is Uber in 2014, you're getting a benefit and it's being paid for with venture capital money, it's about as good as it's going to get.

Raidion commented on Memory safety is table stakes usenix.org/publications/l... · Posted by u/comradelion

haimez · 6 months ago

Java is both compiled (first to bytecode, then to machine code by the JIT) and fast (once JIT compiled).

Raidion · 6 months ago

Java is "fast" but not fast. Most of the time if performance is a true concern, you are not writing code in Java.

Raidion commented on AI is going to hack Jira thoughtfuleng.substack.co... · Posted by u/mooreds

disgruntledphd2 · 6 months ago

Every function in human society has hidden complexity. Like, reality is very very detailed. Everytime I learn something new I discover oceans of complexity and nuance.

That's just the way the world is.

Now, software is hard because the complexity isn't as visible to most of the org, but also because software people tend to be less than good at explaining that complexity to the rest of the org.

Raidion · 6 months ago

I would also argue that software (and the people that write it) have a "correctness" bias that is not fully aligned with business goals.

Tech debt is real, but so is the downside of building a system that has constraints that do not actually align with the realities of the business: optimizing for too much scale, too much performance, or too much modularity. Those things are needed, but only sometimes. Walking that line well (which takes some luck!) is what separates good engineering leadership from great engineering leadership.

Raidion commented on College baseball, venture capital, and the long maybe bcantrill.dtrace.org/2025... · Posted by u/bcantrill

vonneumannstan · 6 months ago

Is there any evidence that universities with large endowments are paying coaches with them?

Raidion · 6 months ago

Money is fungible, doesn't really matter what source the money comes from other than optics.

Raidion commented on How three years at McKinsey shaped my second startup blog.zactownsend.com/know... · Posted by u/zt

guywithahat · 7 months ago

The whole business is nonsensical. The point of a consultant is they have a lot of experience in a specific domain, a recent Harvard grad is useless. From what I've heard, tons of their consultants are young people with minimal real industry experience

Raidion · 7 months ago

You pay for one or two people with real experience and 4 reasonably new hires whose job it is to answer questions posed by the senior team and to build documentation.

You want the senior people focusing on the problems, strategy, and comms and not data aggregation and power point formatting.

Half the time it doesn't actually matter who the consultant is, the business is just looking for an arbiter to provide a second opinion or justify a decision.

Raidion commented on Doge Is Planning a Hackathon at the IRS. It Wants Easier Access to Taxpayer Data wired.com/story/doge-hack... · Posted by u/danso

Raidion · 9 months ago

I think the group of people that work on this should petition for their tax data to be the first to be used. Seems to align the incentives on internal controls of PPI.

Raidion commented on There Was a Texas Lottery Arbitrage bloomberg.com/opinion/art... · Posted by u/ioblomov

carabiner · 9 months ago

> although I'd passed the interview, my interview performance was too poor to be considered for hiring.

In what world of hiring would passing an interview be considered a failing interview? If it's too poor for hire then it's a fail.

Raidion · 9 months ago

I've never this at Google, but at my company, if you pass the technical screen you're offered to hiring managers. If they don't want you on your team because they want more leadership (or less leadership), or if there were 5 senior python roles and you were the 6th person to pass the interviews, you still won't get hired.

Raidion commented on Leaked VA memo calls for up to 83,000 layoffs to reduce workforce to 2019 levels govexec.com/workforce/202... · Posted by u/araes

blindriver · 9 months ago

Holy hell, they hired 83,000 people since 2019? Does no one care we are $36T in debt? 40% of our income taxes go to paying just the interest on our debt!

Raidion · 9 months ago

It's not the hiring people that's the problem. Assuming those people "cost" 300k a year all in (benefits/offices,etc) which is probably high, that's $24 billion. The government spent $6.8 trillion, cutting these jobs cuts spending by .3891%.

Cutting the people without cutting the programs won't do much and is (IMO) a problem in that you should be able to access government services in a way that the writers of the laws (house/senate) have clearly agreed to. When you're cutting this widely, it's hard to believe you're not throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

Raidion commented on “The Traitors”, a reality TV show, offers a useful economics lesson economist.com/finance-and... · Posted by u/helsinkiandrew

henrebotha · a year ago

Is there a term for the "I know that you know that I know…" thing? It's a fundamental part of fighting game strategy, particularly the aspect called "yomi", i.e. reading the opponent's intentions so as to preemptively counter them.

Raidion · a year ago

In poker it's called levels. Fighter pilots call it being inside the other persons OODA loop.

Raidion commented on A marriage proposal spoken in office jargon mcsweeneys.net/articles/a... · Posted by u/ohjeez

savanaly · a year ago

I find that happens to me too (getting annoyed), but it's a good reminder to introspect when it happens. Clearly, there's nothing objectively wrong with actually using these words in their new meanings-- they're completely serviceable in their new usages, and clear too. There's some degree to which all people get annoyed with language changing and feel a conservative impulse to put a stop to it, but the annoyance with office jargon in particular seems to go beyond that. The source of our annoyance is thus revealed to be something else. I have a feeling it comes back to, like so many things, status games. Someone using new terminology that was just invented is (probably incidentally) asserting some kind of status one-upsmanship over you, demonstrating in passing they are more familiar with cultural norms. I wonder if my annoyance is actually stemming from insecurity that the other person is exactly right-- I am falling behind in the invisible status games. I can either accept my loss, try to adapt to it by using it myself, or remind myself of how little I really care about these status games.

Raidion · a year ago

In a softly held defense of those words, they basically are an escalation level.

If someone asks you for something, it could be something with undefined scope or priority. An "ask" signals "this is official". Same thing with learnings: lesson is personal, learnings means ways things are changing.

Are there dumb business terms, absolutely, but these aren't bad IMO.