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We're incapable of putting an accurate, standardized value on developer productivity, yet there often seems to be consensus between senior engineers on who are the high performers and the low performers. I certainly can tell this about the people I work with.

I wonder if the lack of capital letters is a clever trick to make this whole annoucement look more humane and natural. Surely it's intentional: only "U.S" deserves capitals, not even his own name in the signature.


I don't know, I personally find it kind of disrespectful.

My initial gut reaction was "he can't even be bothered to use his shift-key while dramatically altering 4,000 people's lives?"

It's just too casual for what is happening.


It's just a Shibboleth used by SV types to signal their disdain for convention. Altman is also a fan.


Why does he write i’m at some sentences but i'm at others (different ')?


The 2021 answer would be that he wrote part of this in a basic text editor, and part in a word processor that does “smart quotes”.

The 2026 answer is that an AI wrote some parts.


That’s how Jack writes to everyone (and comms drafts his announcements true to his style)


Yeah somehow this make me instantly dislike him.


its the Black Turtleneck of 2025/2026


That appears to be the preferred writing style of the Epstein class


This is precisely why we have clinical studies. We want to measure the efficiency and the innocuousness of drugs. You seem to imply we should just go ahead and try those directly on the general population.


What do you mean "try them on the general population?" Who is forcing anyone to take any of this?


Has anybody ever been forced anyone else to take any drug? The problem is not about being forced, it is about making an informed decision. When you don't have enough safety data you are effectively gambling with your health.


Most people are not capable of understanding exhaustive safety data for a drug, but are still in charge of their own health.

They should be allowed to make bad choices like they are everywhere else.


Debugging electronics to fix stuff. Some people seem to be able to repair whatever broken electronic devices we give them, which I find fascinating.


Same! There is a huge knowledge and skill gap between knowing how resistors, capacitors, and transistors work to the point where you can build a little light blinker, which I can do, and actually troubleshooting a (even 1980s through-hole technology) device to find the component that is broken, which is way beyond me.


> The author is clear that they're talking about "billion dollar tech companies" for an audience of those people called to them.

> We’re in an industry where burnout isn’t just common - it’s expected. If you’re not pulling all-nighters, you’re "not committed." If you’re not answering Slack messages at midnight, you’re "not a team player." This culture is toxic, and it’s only getting worse. The relentless churn of projects, the constant pressure to innovate, and the ever-present threat of obsolescence create a perfect storm of stress.

No, the author is generalizing what work at a billion dollar tech company is like to the whole industry. I've never worked for a company similar to the one described in this post, and I think that the vast majority of people in tech haven't either. Silicon valley is not the world.

Either ways, unionizing sounds like a great idea.


> If you eliminate fingerprinting, that is in and of itself a fingerprint.

This is why you should "eliminate fingerprinting" by randomizing your fingerprint.


Even a random Fingerprint can be used as identification since you will always have some static values between each session. The better approach would be to get in a big enough group with the same/similar fingerprint. That's how tor browser works.


This is how I work as well, and the reason I tend to write many small functions rather than few large ones is precisely because it reduces cognitive load. You don't have to understand what the canSubmit function does, unless you are interested in knowing what the conditions to submit this form are.

Ironically, the author of the post claims it has the opposite effect.


> I know these ridiculous statements are from people hardly wrote any code in their lives

Some people who actually wrote a decent amount of code in their lives are sharing that opinion, so your comment just sounds like an ad-hominem attack.


I disagree that it's an attack, I've also never heard anyone say methods should be less than 5 lines. 5 lines is an insane limit, 15 is much more reasonable. This kind of enforcement reeks to me of unnecessarily "one-lining" complicated statements into completely unreadable garbage. I mean seriously though, 5 lines? Why not 4, or 3, or 6? 15 lines of well thought out code is infinitely preferable to 3 different 5-line monstrosities. Who(m'st've) among us that actually writes code would preach such a guideline, and can i please see their code for reference. Maybe they are just better than us, i still don't think that makes it a reasonable general rule. And i disagree that calling that out as crazy counts as a personal ad-hominem attack against this nebulous entity



Brave just disables the cookie banners (they don't even load), while this fills such forms if I understood correctly. Somehow I get very targeted ads in other apps after using Brave, so I tend to use firefox-based browsers for personal (i.e. any not work-related) stuff.


Exactly. The "it works for me so it works" type of thinking is what makes people mistakenly conclude that homoeopathy works any better than a placebo.


So how do you go from 0 experiments to 10000000 experiments without passing from 1 experiment?

Care to explain?

Perhaps if you're at 0 experiments you can't really have an opinion? Which is the situation of the person I replied to.


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