Thanks for doing this. I am well retired now (from Apple) - so too late for me, but after sampling a few chapters I think every fresh software engineer should read your book!
Too kind! Thank you!
Readit Newsten-fold commented on Show HN: I wrote a book for software engineers, based on 11 years at Uber rfonti.gumroad.com/l/play... · Posted by u/ten-fold
Well, they're two orthogonal axes. Brilliant vs. ignorant and/or dumb, and jerk vs. decent human being.
I am not the original author, but I think the point is that when you're hiring, you try to hire someone who's brilliant, or at least not ignorant and/or dumb. But brilliant who is a jerk can destroy your team, so what you should be trying to hire is brilliant and "not jerk".
Too many people making hiring decisions get so focused on brilliant that they miss the other issue. But, as I said, I'm not OP, and this is just my impression of what they're thinking.
Absolutely, thanks for clarifying.
If you have never heard it before, "brilliant jerk" was a term coined at Netflix to describe their top performers who were also toxic to the team and could not be tolerated.
ten-fold commented on Show HN: Nomad – Real-time collaborative editing in Neovim github.com/nomad/nomad... · Posted by u/noib3
This is cool in theory but I'm wondering if I will really want real time collaboration with an AI agent that I don't fully trust. Won't be a pain to keep track of their work and revert it?