Software designer & engineer
Cincinnati
Joined October 2014
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every software org has at least one human chaos monkey that shines a light on all the places where the team lacks another human being with a spine.
your goal should be creating more people with stronger spines
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The pendulum swing on front-end engineering and product design roles is going to be so nasty.
User experience is not getting the attention it needs, and the trends will reverse.
UX will be big focus in 2027
Engineering is changing: FDE is ascendant while mobile and front-end roles are disappearing.
Open mobile and front-end engineers jobs have been nearly halved in the past year!
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you have to move "above the api"
i spend my days untangling meat proxies. everyone thinks their claude outputs look, but below the surface they never quite hold together.
the devil is in the details, and that's where you should be spending your time.
ai fatigue. getting back to work after 2 months off and i have 0 motivation to get into anything. claude handles it better than i ever could anyway. no idea what "i" have been working on these last few days back. claude does literally everything, even reporting. i am useless
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i don't understand why people say figma's mcp is slow.
every time i use it i ask it to edit dozens to hundreds of frames at a time, and it makes the edits within 10-20 seconds.
skill issue?
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Legal liability is the reason why Tesla is winding down production of consumer cars and focusing on building its driverless fleet.
They need to remove the human from the loop in order to make regulators and insurers comfortable with FSD.
(This will also apply to ai agents btw)
3 things I found interesting in the Jay Leno video
1. Tesla said when they reach L4 unsupervised driving, the driver (Tesla) is liable if something happens. Not the owner of the car.
2. Lasers may be in the future to improve camera visibility and windshield cleaning.
3. Every update they reduce the amount of time the driver has to look at the road.
These are my interpretations of the video. Did you understand it the same way? What did you find Interesting if something else not listed.
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Jian Yang to Anthropic confirmed
my spidey senses are telling me the labs are, as we speak, using unguardrailed versions of their unreleased models to systematically reverse-engineer ALL of the internet’s software, apps, and games, then feeding the reconstructed source code straight into their training pipelines while simultaneously building guardrails to ladder-pull the rest of us
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Inevitably, your employer will put a strict cap on your AI usage, but you’ll need to pay out of pocket to stay ahead of your competition.
So Anthropic is getting ahead of the curve, getting their claws on your budget to help you optimize token spend.
Introducing Personal Finance in Claude, in beta in the US.
Connect the accounts you choose, and Claude answers your money questions in everyday language, from your own balances and transactions. Access is read-only, and Claude can't move, manage, or invest your money.
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Anthropic is definitely not a product company, but they know they desperately need to build products on top of their models, otherwise they’ll die.
I still have my money on a fire sale to Salesforce in the coming years.
Let me tell you a story about how unethical Anthropic is.
In April, the Anthropic team began heavily courting our engineering team to tell them corporate secrets, technical details, and future plans for @cfosilvia.
They pretended their interest was due to our exploding popularity and accelerating compute usage, but it quickly became apparent that Anthropic was fishing for details on how we built our product and why it was so popular.
This included the Anthropic team trying to wine-and-dine our engineers, including a infamous steak dinner where someone told our team "don't worry about it, this is on Dario."
Our team was not born yesterday, so we quickly realized what was happening and refused to share sensitive information and technical details with the Anthropic team.
As we suspected, Anthropic was trying to get information from us, so they could build a competing product. Some people on their team must have a guilty conscious because they messaged us a few days ago to give us "a heads-up" that they were launching a competing product.
Thankfully, the Silvia engineering team has been aggressively working to get off the frontier models for the last ~ 6 months. That effort has been highly successful, because our compute costs are ~ 97% lower when we use our own model & hardware, the latency is lower, and the accuracy of answers materially increases as well.
The sad thing for Anthropic is they have now released an inferior product and they had to sell their soul to do it.
The only thing worse than being a trillion-dollar company that can't beat a 10-person team is being a trillion-dollar company that no one trusts and everyone knows is unethical.
Serious investors continue to choose @cfosilvia over ChatGPT, Claude, and other frontier companies because these products are not optimized to solve the actual user problem.
Today, Anthropic launched a Claude wrapper that is masquerading as a personal finance product. Best of luck to them.
But I will take the Silvia misfits vs the Anthropic losers any day of the week.
if you want to support people trying to do things the right way, and help investors be more informed, then consider signing up for Silvia today: silvia.com
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probably a good thing i just put money into funds.
because I have no idea why all of this red lagged a day. this is what i'd have expected at open on the morning after the election.
interesting.
BREAKING: US technology stocks collapse at the open, erasing -$1.3 trillion in market cap in 30 minutes, with dozens of names down 10% or more.
Tech Stocks Today:
1. SanDisk, $SNDK: -15%
2. Western Digital, $WDC: -13%
3. Nebius, $NBIS: -13%
4. AMD, $AMD: -12%
5. Seagate, $STX: -12%
6. Qualcomm, $QCOM: -10%
7. Micron, $MU: -10%
8. Tesla, $TSLA: -10%
9. Dell, $DELL: -10%
10. Arm, $ARM: -10%
11. Marvell Technology, $MRVL: -10%
12. CrowdStrike, $CRWD: -10%
13. Intel, $INTC: -9%
14. CoreWeave, $CRWV: -8%
15. Palantir, $PLTR: -8%
16. SpaceX, $SPCX: -7%
17. TSMC, $TSM: -7%
18. Nvidia, $NVDA: -5%
19. Broadcom, $AVGO: -5%
20. Oracle, $ORCL: -5%
The Nasdaq 100 is now down -4% on the day.
We expect a highly eventful day ahead.
Turn on our post notifications @KobeissiLetter for real time analysis as this develops.
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I love that all the Claude Code folks are getting headhunted.
It’s the most mid product of all the coding agent products. Definitely revolutionary but there is so much to be desired.
We’re going to find out whether Anthropic is simply an infrastructure company, without any desire to build good products, or if they just haven’t had the right talent to build good products.
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If your product has an unintelligible frontend, you don’t have a product
one of the most underrated asymmetries right now is that slop is totally fine for the backend and basically fatal in the frontend.
if you’re backend is slop, the app still works. if your front end and overall experience is slop, the *product* does not.
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OpenAI is acquiring Pierre and Meta is inquiring Conductor.
The major AI houses are stacking up the bricks to build the walls of their gardens higher and higher.
within the next 12 months we're going to walled gardens like we've never seen.
putting a whole new meaning on "locked in".
you're going to get sorted into one of the main houses:
Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, Google, or Meta.
They're going to slowly start to roll up other big startups to build their own computing platforms.
You'll have to pick one, because integrations will get shut off with exclusive deals and mergers and acquisitions.
plan accordingly.
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