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New comment by trigvi in "Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?"

trigvi — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:56:57 +0000

Not necessarily. Personally, I'm both in love with AI (likely to upvote a convo) and scared about the short/medium term societal changes its job displacement will bring.

New comment by trigvi in "Mystery jump in oil trading ahead of Trump post draws scrutiny"

trigvi — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:29:19 +0000

To reduce the insider trading's attack surface, we should first reduce the things a govt can control or legislate on.

New comment by trigvi in "Every layer of review makes you 10x slower"

trigvi — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 08:55:58 +0000

Excellent article. Based on personal experience, if you build cutting edge stuff then you need great engineers and reviewers.

But for anything else, you just need an individual (not a team) who's okay (not great) at multiple things (architecting, coding, communicating, keeping costs down, testing their stuff). Let them build and operate something from start to finish without reviewing. Judge it by how well their produce works.

New comment by trigvi in "You Bought Zuck's Ray-Bans. Now Someone in Nairobi Is Watching You Poop"

trigvi — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:48:22 +0000

That's okay I guess? The negative part is the smell, which these glasses can't convey.

New comment by trigvi in "Bet on German Train Delays"

trigvi — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 12:23:16 +0000

Every single thing one does in life is a gamble that carries a probability of success.

Getting a degree. Investing in a business. Investing in a relationship. Having kids. Smoking. Booking a flight cheaper but with no possibility of cancellation. Moving town. Not moving town.

I could go on forever.

Everything is a gamble. Some forms of gambling are more socially acceptable than others.

The difference, in everyhthing, is emotional control and knowing how much you stand to lose if it goes wrong.

New comment by trigvi in "Nobody gets promoted for simplicity"

trigvi — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 04:53:09 +0000

Excellent article. It's even worse for people who can build and run small/medium products end-to-end (coding, infra, handling prospects and customers directly, being mindful of costs) and are made to report to engineering managers, who clearly understand only the coding part.

New comment by trigvi in "GitHub having issues [resolved]"

trigvi — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 20:50:20 +0000

Simple solution: do infra work every few months instead of every few weeks.