I have an inkling of a feeling that this generosity is a stunt only to help juice the growth and “story” specifically for the IPO…

Best use the AI subsidies while you can!

Which seems a bit off to me. Can they even ipo right now due to the apple business?

Although I don't think you're wrong. The number of "organic" social media posts I've seen in the past few weeks of the form: 'Wow, Anthropic users are ugly losers...nothing like those handsome openai tiger blood winner sages' is simply too high in my mind for anything other than an ipo prelude.

[Also are altman and musk really fighting on x? Like, that's got to be a sign of some sort of internal stressors right?]

That’s exactly it for large scale hiring with finite resources.

It’s all probabilities in the end. And if an LLM gives you more a more relevant pool vs random distribution, that’s still a net benefit.

I think there’s already a big market of supply chain security companies that are proactively scanning dependencies for this sort of thing.

They’re always racing to be the first one to write an article about a case.

At least with our Renovate config, all dependencies have a 7 day cooldown, but marked security updates are immediate.

Attackers can’t push a security update without going through the reporting process (e.g. Github CVE), so they can’t necessarily abuse that easily.

Welcome to becoming a project manager.

> Just do the cutoff when everyone is asleep.

In this age, many smaller companies serve customers across the globe. There is no common “asleep”.

DuckDB has one of my favourite articles on this topic if you want something a little more high level: https://duckdb.org/2022/10/28/lightweight-compression

> My experience with GHA default caches is that it’s absolutely dog slow.

For reference, oven-sh/setup-bun opted to install dependencies from scratch over using GHA caching since the latter was somehow slower.

https://github.com/oven-sh/setup-bun/issues/14#issuecomment-...

I strongly relate to this in many ways.

Because of OSS, I’ve never actually applied for a job or done a Leetcode interview. I’ve gotten multiple direct offers through Twitter DMs (I don’t post) and multiple referrals through random encounters that I never used.

E.g. Debugging an interesting issue with GitHub customer support eventually led to a referral for Microsoft by an MD. Similar stories with Cloudflare and more.

It’s not limited to OSS, but just having any sort of backing credibility to your name without going through the whole CV/CL process unlocks a whole slew of opportunities since people can “pre-screen” you from the start.

You're sort of describing networks more broadly whether you initiate a connection or someone at a company does. Latterly, I didn't apply in the usual sense for 25 years or so.

Don't code a lot but have written books which led to book signings at conferences that probably led to other opportunities if I had the need to exploit them.

I feel it’s an evolution of the term “Devrel” which still feels tacky.

Nor would you want someone who built most of their career as an actual engineer to suddenly drop that term and become a generic someone in “marketing”. They’re more than that for sure.

I quite like the terminology the more I think about it.

https://github.com/aarondfrancis

Totally. An engineer, who (at the the time) works in marketing! Makes sense to me :D