Mykhailo Dovmantovych

@Angooooooooose @mfourastie @SoSnake13 Those things should be reusable, only then we can build truly immersive worlds like metaverse of ready player 1 as an example. We cannot keep reinventing the wheel. Imagine if every automobile company had to reinvent the rubber compound or engine mechanics.

@dmv43 @mfourastie @SoSnake13 the microscopic improvements that no one notices are causing budgets to increase multiplicatively and are rapidly killing the gaming industry.

Allez ça recommence , jpp 🤣 Svp , donnez leur GTA 6 , sinon on va définitivement les perdre

@mfourastie @SoSnake13 People expect continuous improvement, so new games to be better and better than old ones. That’s how industry ran for the past 50 years. Games are getting closer and closer to reality so people expect at some point physics to feel real world- like.

@SoSnake13 🤣🤣 franchement les mecs qui passent leur temps à se br**ler sur les anciens GTA et RDR2 et à comparer le moindre grain de sable avec ces jeux sont totalement tarés !! je pense qu'à ce stade faut qu'il aille voir un psy, il y a truc œdipien avec ces jeux 🤣🤣🤣

@gxjo_dev That’s the paradox of every layoff. C suite doesn’t care that it takes 3-5 years for a person to learn that much to be efficient with large systems.

how can person with this much knowledge of their system be laid off ???

@NotA_Bull You are not smart if you don’t understand that Berkshire in addition to Buffett had 2 portfolio managers, eqch of which had own portfolio in the bucket. Todd left and all his holdings were sold.

I don’t even know what to say about $BRK.B. What happened to the saying… “Our favorite holding period is forever.” They announced $UNH just 9 months ago and they’ve already sold it. What is this?

@plainionist Ai still look at the problem narrowly. It requires experienced reviewers. While mediocre developers can be fully independent in their easy problem space.

Uncomfortable truth: LLMs already write better code than many mediocre developers. Agree? 🤔

@philthistweet Most alive ecosystem. All AI libraries are TS first

Why is anyone using JavaScript on the server in the first place?

@hnasr Classic OOP died in the early 2000s. Now data models match the database closely, web servers are stateless, async by default, their objects are stateless, you also mostly don’t have inheritance to worry about.

OOP and Databases don’t mix well. When you force them to mix, you get a lipstick. Also know as ORMs.

@VibeCoderOfek @yacineMTB To have a mental model you need to read about it once, not actually write the tree or traverse it.

@yacineMTB Soft disagree from experience: I dropped LeetCode entirely after my last side project but the mental model of traversal order still surfaces every time I debug a tree-based index in production RAG. The muscle is cheap to keep.

hot take: if you are a programmer you should be able to invert a binary tree from memory, AI or not. It's ridiculously easy and if you can't do it, you should not have a computer science degree

@yacineMTB 95+% programmers never worked directly with a binary tree in their life. The job is to implement business logic via given language framework in Web.

@hasen_95dx Sprints work if done properly because they create the basic predictable structure of understanding what is the focus, protects the team from the disruptions or daily changes in priorities.

"The Sprint" is a huge productivity disaster

@visiogene @SawyerMerritt Porsche is awesome in interior design.

@SawyerMerritt German cars have been leaders mechanically but not necessarily in interior design. A couple years ago I almost bought a BMW i7. It had so much plastic bling that I felt like a drug dealer when sitting in driver’s seat.

This is Audi's brand new Q9, a three row SUV for the US market, and the interior already looks 8 years old.

@Sambuildswealth @DvdndDiplomats Nike stores are absolute garbage where you can never buy what you want. Also Adidas and NB actually evolved their classics so they look good and perform good, while nike just sells 1990s tech

@DvdndDiplomats That’s actually a great investing lesson. You can spot shifts in consumer behavior before they show up in earnings reports. A lot of runners moved to brands focused purely on performance while Nike leaned heavily into lifestyle/fashion.

I've asked a lot of runners lately what shoe they wear. Not one has said Nike. That's why $NKE stock is down....

@Nerdsauce1 @xIIOOllxx @liabeautymai It’s not just about the panel. Processor for upscaling, ram for browser, OS all matter. That’s why LG is still the best

@xIIOOllxx @liabeautymai You realise HiSense sources a lot of its panels from LG, right? Especially their OLED line. It's rapidly closed the gap between itself and the likes of LG and Samsung in recent years. So your worries might be a little out of date, or a bit of unintended brand snobbery.

When you have no sense, you buy a Hisense

@anshublog @nikitabase They are smart to abstract out of Postgres. Lakebase in future can be way broader than just Postgres.

@nikitabase I love most Databricks product names. Lakebase for Postgres that is not a data lake is weird. Why not Postbricks?

TIL "Postgres on S3" is not a good category name for databases on object storage + low latency machinery. Let's just all agree to call them lakebases. Lakebases are faster than Postgres on NVMe.

@pmarca “Overstuffed” is the necessary redundancy layer not a waste. People go on vacations, retire, leave. It’s like saying the car is overpacked by having 8 airbags instead of 1, but that’s the difference between safe and unsafe, and nothing prevents a car to drive without airbags.

The confounding factor is that virtually every big company is overstaffed by 2-4x and has been for decades. AI is the catalyst/excuse to finally fix that. Of course nobody wants to say this out loud.

@ptr_to_joel You mostly measure their age by this.

you can measure how good an engineer is by their opinion on the jvm / java

@LyalinDotCom It depends on the size of the org you are managing and the challenges that are there. The goal of any manager is to amplify the efficiency of the team, building is not always the most useful thing, sometimes it’s rapid hiring or reorg, sometimes it’s business cases for budget.

I don’t care if they build something on schedule X… but if you’re an engineering manager who doesn’t build… ugh. Time to change that.

@BilalBudhani Every codebase I worked with grows huge in a span of 1-2 years. I still prefer C# for most enterprise use cases over TS

Unpopular opinion: I still avoid Typescript like a plague. Ruby's dynamic typing has spoilt me for life I guess. I cannot stand those extra TS syntax around types. I understand the value of it in large scale codebase but for relatively smaller cases I think TS is an overkill.

@TheJerzWay Ukraine. Few.

"I want low taxes but I want to stay in Europe." Malta. That's the list. That's the whole list.

@michaelrwolfe @hexednobility @brian_armstrong Exactly, so when some CEO says as an example “i fired CFO now it’s all AI that takes care of financials” - is your first reaction that “world have changed” you are you looking at someone speed running to financial ruin?

@dmv43 @hexednobility @brian_armstrong Leading Silicon Valley companies have always had operating models a decade or two ahead of the rest the world, going all of the way back to Fairchild and HP.

This is an email I sent earlier today to all employees at Coinbase: Team, Today I’ve made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%. I want to walk you through why we're doing this now, what it means for those affected, and how this positions us for the future. Why now Two forces are converging at the same time. We need to be front footed to respond to both. First, the market. Coinbase is well-capitalized, has diversified revenue streams, and is well-positioned to weather any storm. Crypto is also on the verge of the next wave of adoption, with stablecoins, prediction markets, tokenization, and more taking off. However, our business is still volatile from quarter to quarter. While we've managed through that cyclicality many times before and come out stronger on the other side, we’re currently in a down market and need to adjust our cost structure now so that we emerge from this period leaner, faster, and more efficient for our next phase of growth. Second, AI is changing how we work. Over the past year, I’ve watched engineers use AI to ship in days what used to take a team weeks. Non-technical teams are now shipping production code and many of our workflows are being automated. The pace of what's possible with a small, focused team has changed dramatically, and it's accelerating every day. All of this has led us to an inflection point, not just for Coinbase, but for every company. The biggest risk now is not taking action. We are adjusting early and deliberately to rebuild Coinbase to be lean, fast, and AI-native. We need to return to the speed and focus of our startup founding, with AI at our core. What this means To get there, we are not just reducing headcount and cutting costs, we’re fundamentally changing how we operate: rebuilding Coinbase as an intelligence, with humans around the edge aligning it. What does this mean in practice? - Fewer layers, faster decisions: We are flattening our org structure to 5 layers max below CEO/COO. Layers slow things down and create coordination tax. The future is small, high context teams that can move quickly. Leaders will own much more, with as many as 15+ direct reports. Fewer layers also means a leaner cost structure that is built to perform through all market cycles. - No pure managers: Every leader at Coinbase must also be a strong and active individual contributor. Managers should be like player-coaches, getting their hands dirty alongside their teams. - AI-native pods: We’ll be concentrating around AI-native talent who can manage fleets of agents to drive outsized impact. We’ll also be experimenting with reduced pod sizes, including “one person teams” with engineers, designers, and product managers all in one role. In short: AI is bringing a profound shift in how companies operate, and we’re reshaping Coinbase to lead in this new era. This is a new way of working, and we need to leverage AI across every facet of our jobs. To those who are affected I know there are real people behind these decisions — talented colleagues who have poured themselves into this company and our mission. To those of you who will be leaving: thank you. You’ve helped build Coinbase into what it is today, and I am sincerely grateful for everything you've done. All impacted team members will receive an email to their personal account in the next hour with more information, and an invitation to meet with an HRBP and a senior leader in your organization. Coinbase system access has been removed today. I know this feels sudden and harsh, but it is the only responsible choice given our duty to protect customer information. To those affected, we will be providing a comprehensive package to support you through this transition. US employees will receive a minimum of 16 weeks base pay (plus 2 weeks per year worked), their next equity vest, and 6 months of COBRA. Employees on a work visa will get extra transition support. Those outside of the US will receive similar support, based on local factors and subject to any consultation requirements. Coinbase prides itself on talent density. Our employees are among the most talented people in the world, and I have no doubt that your skills and experience will be highly sought after as you pursue your next chapters. How we move forward To the team that is staying, I know this is a difficult day. We’re saying goodbye to colleagues and friends you've been in the trenches with. But here’s what I want you to know as we move forward together: Over the past 13 years, we have weathered four crypto winters, gone public, and built the most trusted platform in our industry. We’ve made it this far by making hard decisions and by always staying focused on our mission. This time will be no different – nothing has changed about the long term outlook of our company or industry. And most importantly, our mission has never been more important for the world. Increasing economic freedom requires a new financial system, and we’re building it. The Coinbase that emerges from this will be more capable than ever to achieve our mission. Brian