Hacker News: trustfundbaby

New comment by trustfundbaby in "Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career"

trustfundbaby — Mon, 11 May 2026 23:35:17 +0000

I was the same opinion till Claude code was relased. its a lot closer now.

New comment by trustfundbaby in "Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career"

trustfundbaby — Mon, 11 May 2026 23:16:06 +0000

how? management in most Tech companies are incentivizing them to do just that, so if you bring it up, they'll happily trot over to your manager to complain and then the uncomfortable conversation is you with management about why you're getting in the way of AI uptake by the team.

New comment by trustfundbaby in "Appearing productive in the workplace"

trustfundbaby — Thu, 07 May 2026 14:17:17 +0000

Or maybe they just didn't have the time (left it to the last minute and ran out of it), and went with the first thing that AI proposed which was said CLI with documentation.

New comment by trustfundbaby in "Alert-driven monitoring"

trustfundbaby — Sun, 03 May 2026 18:15:07 +0000

SLO timelines are usually over 7d, 30d etc no? and also often don't work that great for backend services in my experience ... they can't give you the level of reactivity that defining alerts about things you care about give you. I'd argue that moving from that direction upwards to figure out what alerts to aggregate and define SLOs around, rather than the other way around in those cases.

New comment by trustfundbaby in "Skilled tech workers snapped up despite downturn"

trustfundbaby — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 20:09:37 +0000

I don't think that massive downturn people are thinking is coming ... is going to come. The job market is too strong (because of lower immigration, and how many exited the job market during covid) and so is the housing market.

I thinks its going to be more like this for the next 8-12 months, until the fed stops raising interest rates, and then it will be a mad dash to get everything going again.

New comment by trustfundbaby in "Skilled tech workers snapped up despite downturn"

trustfundbaby — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 20:06:41 +0000

> Is anyone aware of how hard covid hit the software engineering community via early deaths/retirements?

Can you provide some data around that?

New comment by trustfundbaby in "Skilled tech workers snapped up despite downturn"

trustfundbaby — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 20:05:48 +0000

Carvana, Vroom, Bird, Helbiz, FuboTv, Shift, Wework, 23andMe to name a few, theres many more.

Their stocks are either in or dangerously close to penny stock category.

New comment by trustfundbaby in "Granting Pardon for the Offense of Simple Possession of Marijuana"

trustfundbaby — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 02:50:11 +0000

>no one is actually held in jail for this right now

6000+ people were.

New comment by trustfundbaby in "SPACs are warning they may go bust"

trustfundbaby — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 00:21:22 +0000

Bird is another big one, they've been trading below the $1 watermark for a week or two now, after 30 days of consecutively trading under $1 companies get delisted from the exchange.

New comment by trustfundbaby in "Bits of advice I wish I had known"

trustfundbaby — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 00:19:59 +0000

> A great way to understand yourself is to seriously reflect on everything you find irritating in others.

This is one of the truest things I've ever read.

New comment by trustfundbaby in "Bits of advice I wish I had known"

trustfundbaby — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 00:19:34 +0000

The people who like your new stuff will help you figure out how to fix it and make it good enough so the old system truly becomes obsolete, otherwise the old system will continue to exist and people will continue to use it, so that now, theres 2 options instead of just one.

New comment by trustfundbaby in "Insider Trading at Coinbase"

trustfundbaby — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 14:50:51 +0000

"Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket."

New comment by trustfundbaby in "Friday.app is shutting down"

trustfundbaby — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 21:43:49 +0000

I had this question as well/

New comment by trustfundbaby in "US Federal Reserve raises interest rates for first time since 2018"

trustfundbaby — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 21:31:21 +0000

>We did waste the 3 yrs before Covid hit by not increasing interest rates and not reducing Fed's money printing.

Most of the money printing happened in 2020 and after. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL

New comment by trustfundbaby in "Arm to drop up to 15 percent of staff, about 1k people"

trustfundbaby — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 23:58:28 +0000

> You always see 10-15% cuts leading up to an IPO

No you don't

New comment by trustfundbaby in "Apple execs: Let's take a 30% cut of Uber and Lyft's membership programs (2018)"

trustfundbaby — Wed, 12 Jan 2022 23:59:22 +0000

No Dichotomy there, its one thing to 'charge more' for your services, its another thing to ask for 30% of your client's SaaS subscription revenue, because you built them a website.

New comment by trustfundbaby in "New York City will make it mandatory for companies to post salaries on job ads"

trustfundbaby — Sat, 08 Jan 2022 00:12:58 +0000

Thank you for clarifying!

New comment by trustfundbaby in "New York City will make it mandatory for companies to post salaries on job ads"

trustfundbaby — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 04:13:40 +0000

I think you get to choose the proportion of cash and stock for the number you're given or did I get that completely wrong?

New comment by trustfundbaby in "Know how your org works, or how to become a more effective engineer"

trustfundbaby — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 04:04:17 +0000

This is a really good post that every engineer should read, especially early on in their career. I spent a lot of mine butting my head against a wall, and getting nowhere because I thought that soft skills and understanding organizational politics (not necessarily participating in them) weren't super important as long as you were good at the primary work of building software.

This post articulates exactly why those things are important and furthermore exactly how to pursue acquiring them in the right measure to get things done in your org. Brilliant stuff.

New comment by trustfundbaby in "Open-sourcing the Sorbet VS Code Extension"

trustfundbaby — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 03:56:53 +0000

Oh wow. they still use Ruby at Airbnb? For some Reason I thought they'd moved to Go or the JVM.