Adrian

This is what I would do with FU money

There’s a reason environments exist. There’s a reason you don’t code on production or even staging. There’s a reason why you go through a PR before merging changes. The industry has set best practices and standards for the last 30 years. They work. They prevent this stuff.

this to basically say that recruiting is completely broken and ATS systems are way behind the curve.

pre-AI I wouldn't do that but now, if it's something that takes 2 min and requires the engineer to take 1 more step, why not? I have mixed thoughts about it tbh

In the age of AI - should a qualifying question for software engineering roles be, solve this problem using an agent and submit the code as response?

My take is that if you have 10 of these engineers spending $250k a year on coding. You can probably get rid of half of them.

@mattbaran What wood siding product are you using here? Anything to keep an eye on in terms of maintenance? Love the content. Keep it up!

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MCPs were never great. A half backed idea. A sign of the times. For developer tools, APIs should remain the main interface. Models are smart enough now to read api docs and implement clients. No need to reinvent the wheel.

@karrisaarinen @linear sign me up!

1. Just asked @linear go through customer requests for a feature + make a project with PRD 2. Asked to create issues for the project 3. Select all, assign to Codex/Cursor 4. Review diffs + build previews in Linear 😎 (betas coming soon)

Here's where I'm baffled... The 2 red lines that Anthropic has been insisting on existed before government contracts were signed. Those 2 things have been a sticking point since the beginning. The Pentagon agreed to these terms when they signed the contract last summer. So why did they agree to the deal knowing Anthropic took this stance? And why, when Anthropic held firm on the same terms everyone already agreed to, did the government's response escalate to trying to effectively cripple the company And why does the US government need to assert its dominance by using policies that have historically been reserved for foreign adversaries? I understand the arguments on both sides: Anthropic doesn't want to be the company that enables mass surveillance on US citizens and they don't believe the technology is ready yet to be used within autonomous weapons. They actually didn't even close the doors on autonomous weapons... They said the technology wasn't ready yet. The US Government doesn't want Silicon Valley CEOs who are unelected to be controlling the decisions the US government makes. If Anthropic is the best tool for the job, moving to someone else means that inferior technology could be filling roles where superior technology exists. And there's a real concern about operational reliability. The military doesn't want to be in a situation where they're mid-operation and their AI vendor can block functionality or pull the plug. That's a legitimate worry. Everything I see on social media ignores nuance. You have to be on either one side or the other. Both sides have legitimate arguments. The Pentagon's own position is that mass surveillance of Americans and fully autonomous weapons are already illegal under current law and existing Pentagon policy. Their argument to Anthropic was basically "trust us, we'd never do that anyway." Ok... so if you'd never do it, why won't you just put it in writing? And then there's the OpenAI part that nobody seems to be talking about. Sam Altman told his employees that the Pentagon is willing to let OpenAI build its own safety stack with similar restrictions to what Anthropic was asking for. If the model refuses to perform a task, the government said they wouldn't force OpenAI to make it comply. So the government is apparently fine with the same terms from OpenAI that they just punished Anthropic for requesting. How does that make sense? The thing I can't get on board with is that the government decided that, if a US company does not bend to their will, they have the power to cripple them AND cripple downstream companies that work with them. If the Pentagon was unhappy with Anthropic's terms, they could just cancel the contract and use a different vendor. Instead, they went with the nuclear option. The "supply chain risk" designation feels punitive and like a massive overstep towards a company where they knew the ideals when they first started working together. The government is essentially telling every AI company in America: agree to whatever we want with no restrictions in writing, or we will destroy your business. It feels more vindictive and impulsive than it does a cool-headed, thought-out response. That's what's scary to me.

You can't review that by hand, even if you want to. The ATS are trying to catch up but if you're competing against a candidate using Claude Code or newer tools, good luck

I don't know if anyone is still doing tech recruiting the manual way but the job search and resume review is completely broken. 700 applicants in less than 24hrs, mostly AI slop.

@diegomarino The 0.5% talking about fixing problems of the 1%

Tan alejados de la realidad que son un puto meme…

One day I use AI to build an automated agent that could replace an engineer the next day I use it to ask "what kind of animal am I?"

@mwmoedinger @patcarino This might be the simplest yet more beautiful thing I've seen in a while.

@patcarino I gotchu

I have water shutoffs all over my house many hidden behind sheetrock and I don't know what 98% of them do. It's on my bucket list to own a home one day with a plumbing control panel that has an individual shutoff for every line - neatly laid out and labeled.

@adrianveracom Lol no dude

A Spanish 90-percentile worker costs her employer 68k euros a year and her net pay is about 36k.

@EnriqueDiazAlva btw, great tool @benjaminakar 🙌! Taxes are complicated and tools like this allow folks to compare between countries or locations easily

@EnriqueDiazAlva I do believe that Spain should do everything they can to allow more opportunities of earning higher levels of income for it's citizens but not everything is about a few % points on the tax bill.

@EnriqueDiazAlva Taxes are there for a reason. No one likes to be taxed more that they should, but when talking about taxes it's good to talk about what the society looks like around you and how much of that is enabled by tax money.

@EnriqueDiazAlva I know you most likely won't make that money in Spain, but that's not a tax issue.