The flaw in this reasoning is AI can also help you understand code much more quickly than we could before. We are now in fractional bus factor territory.
Readit NewsRickasaurus commented on Vibe coding creates a bus factor of zero mindflash.org/coding/ai/a... · Posted by u/AntwaneB
One thing that I learned from going to IC to manager:
there is a LOT of activity at the manager level that you never see and therefore don't often think about when you are an IC.
Case in point: trying to retain good people.
Good people often times end up wanting to leave for a variety of reasons ranging from ludicrous to 100% legitimate. They often announce they are leaving to their direct manager and maybe one other person (E.g. head of another team they work with etc).
Given that they are good and worth keeping, this triggers escalations, meetings with the employee and between managers, senior managers and HR. In the best case, this leads to a successful retention.
However, the only people that know any of this happened are the employee and the manager tier. The other employees have zero idea any of this occurred unless someone shares/mentions it. I point this out b/c multiple times as an IC, I thought "no one will care if I leave b/c I never see managers actively trying to keep people".
The point of this story is twofold: - managers do a lot of "unseen" work - it's worth researching this kind of thing if you are about to move from IC to manager.
Crisis management is a big part of the job, and the more people you have the higher the chance there is a crisis at any given point in time. Around 100 devs there's usually at least 1-2 things going on at any given time.
Rickasaurus commented on Yoke: Infrastructure as code, but actually xeiaso.net/blog/2025/yoke... · Posted by u/xena
I feel like the whole distributing webasm binaries thing is tough to swallow. I get the argument, but surely there's a better way, like maybe you could make a tiny interpreter in webasm and distribute that with a human readable script.
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Rickasaurus commented on Monolith First (2015) martinfowler.com/bliki/Mo... · Posted by u/bubblehack3r
Recently was looking at a distributed microservice system at a company that thought they would need massive scale, but pivoted from d2c to enterprise b2b and then found out enterprise b2b companies want data separation. They would have been much better off going monolith first and probably actually sticking with a monolith.
My pet feature is good and tight Jira (or ticket manager) integration so it opens tickets for the team to put time on, maybe even syncs time? Really nicely streamline so the time to remediate is tracked as part of the team's work.
We used WorldCheck data at my last startup, it was the best in the business at the time. High quality groomed data, well tagged, with an actual timeline for each entity that explains why they're in there. Absolute top notch.
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