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I am still amazed how something I wrote and published a good while back (to the point that I practically forgot parts of it!) can help someone I've never met (and am unlikely to meet.) A reminder that writing is such a powerful medium to communicate ideas, stories, and advice.

An interesting detail on manager compensation versus individual contributor compensation. Who makes more, almost always? I had assumed (correctly) that managers do. At most companies. But the closer you get to the top of the market (to the “top tiers”) the less true this is!

What are companies that hire software engineers as full-remote? From the top of my head: Airbnb, Shopify, Spotify, DuckDuckGo, GitLab, Sourcegraph, Linear, Oxide, Remote .com. But there are surely a lot more. Know of up-to-date lists for this?

Is Adobe the first major tech company that builds their own AI models to make their terms-and-conditions "GenAI compatible?" I think so! They updated terms two days ago. The new one now has a GenAI clause: t.co/StGuJ3wyPs

Tech companies now announcing they are hiring based on merit: What exactly have you been hiring for, until now? (Needing to make loud statements on this suggests hiring was based on something else at these companies - unlike the silent majority that always hired based on it)

As we focus on efficiency gains AI coding tools can bring to SW development, a reminder: EV car maker Fisker is bankrupt - in a good deal thanks to incredibly buggy *software* and firmware. Quality sw won't come from AI tools. And adding efficiency to poor quality won't help. t.co/tHbv6MAcaY

What an “amazing PM” looks like depends hugely on company, stage in PMF/revenue/profitability, team. For example, when I was on a senior & fast moving engineering team with the goal to make $$: “great PM” meant the PM who identified+prioritized+let us build $$ products/features. t.co/4eemt0JeH2

An odd thing about the media is how "dramatic" news (companies, founders, events) gets the majority of the press. Successful yet "undramatic" companies/teams/people are rarely considered newsworthy. So I did an article last year about a collection of "boring" tech companies: t.co/FqzsiLmG0I

Damning how the EU is trying to quietly pass a bill TOMORROW that would mandate all private communications can be monitored under the pretext of child safety. This would mean forcing backdoors into eg WhatsApp, Signal: or banning those services. Nuts that it is even considered. t.co/cVE9v1IPPf

I continue to be amazed how many software engineers have not taken the bare minimum effort to understand how LLMs work, and assume things like “it can reason.” A trait of any kind of engineering is you look under the covers of the stuff you use, understand how it works and why.