Armon Dadgar

If I had to highlight one aspect of my career, it would definitely be an internship 17 years ago...

By the time you are losing @mitchellh, you have to assume @github has destroyed an incredible amount of community goodwill. Setting aside the lack of vision, the uptime alone is unacceptable.

@cody251 When Starbucks lays off their Seattle employees and opens roles in TN, I guess we will find out! Last I checked the Boeing plants in SC have employees and they build planes. Jobs that otherwise would have been in WA.

@armon No shit… kinda why I brought it up. When Boeing went to SC, a right to work state, many employees did not follow. All these massively subsidized companies aren’t leaving. Those that do, how many employees will follow them?

What a disaster. CA has good weather and vibrant tech ecosystem, and NYC has world-class amenities. WA comparative advantage was the tax regime, and now they've eliminated that. Sane founders would rather be in SF/NYC given the marginal delta in taxes and megacorps will relocate.

@cody251 Starbucks has already signed a massive lease in Tennessee... seattletimes.com/business/starb…

@armon Mega corps get massive tax breaks to stay here. Where will the talent follow these companies? Not Texas or Tennessee. I agree Washington has some fiscal responsibilities to straighten out. But I don’t see companies just packing up and leaving because of this tax.

@VijayInWA @stevemur In trying to maintain the "not a tax" LT gain tax, the structure and language is very poorly done and complex. Bigger issue is the direction of travel is clear, it will get worse before it gets better. Spending will grow and at the next shortfall the thresholds will change.

Considered in total, WA's tax regime is now actually much worse than CA. You mention the estate tax but also consider that the capital gains tax was so poorly written that you can't deduct short term losses against long term gains or use charitable deductions in any meaningful way. CA at least has properly thought through these issues and matches the Federal structure. There are other aspects that make WA worse too, so it's not just a loss of comparative advantage. It's an outright disadvantage.

@reddyac WA has failed to show they can effectively spend the money they already collect. Revenue has grown much faster than inflation or population growth. Instead, it all goes to NGOs, consultants, and pet projects. Look at the outcomes for education, infrastructure, etc.

@armon Yes but we really need the money. A lot of people are struggling out there. We are suffering and don’t know where our next meal coming from. This new tax can help us all out. Your money will help us pay our bills.

@almonk 🤐

@armon Armon-stack when

There is something strangely addictive about using all your token quota and the dopamine hit of the incredibly tight feedback loop.

This Friday is my last day at @HashiCorp, after nearly 13 years, all starting with @mitchellh and a crazy dream. I'm thankful to all the amazing investors, employees, customers, partners, and community members who joined for the ride, it's been a blast! linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

Really interesting interview with @martin_casado and @vishalmisra (CS prof) on the Bayesian nature of LLMs and what that implies. Great if you want to build an intuitive understanding!

It's fun to be back in SF and see the energy and spark in the city again. Very noticeable the change from a year or two ago. City feels more vibrant, safer, and cleaner.

This video is a masterpiece

@vivekramaswami Thanks for sharing! Agreed both can be wrong/overcorrections. Long term, question is if SaaS can maintain 80%+ margins when cost of building software drops by 100x.

@armon Agreed! x.com/vivekramaswami…

It’s interesting to see the extreme disconnect between late stage private valuations and public software companies. Privates still doing 10-20x revenue while public companies dropping to 2-4x.

The Gell-Mann Amnesia of using AI is real. On topics you know better, you can call BS and mostly the response agrees the initial answer was non-sensical. But then we blindly trust the output on domains where we lack subject matter expertise...

@erratlinezero @DirtFishRally You raise an excellent question...

@armon @DirtFishRally Why on earth was hashiconf never colocated with rally??

First time Rally driving at @DirtFishRally, had an awesome time. Very different than being on a track, but can't complain when you get be sideways through every turn!

I'm an openly gay founder of a very successful company, who lived in the Bay Area for 9 years. This article is completely insane, and at best represents a small microcosm of the Valley.

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