Hayden Malcomson

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How would you solve this common Citadel interview question?

@vandon__ Brisbane/Gold Coast will be the first city post Olympics. Only major city on the ascendancy.

is Australia's second city Brisbane or Sydney?

Tax is massive advantage. At higher tech comp you are paying over 50% marginal very early in the year. In Washington state filing jointly you only hit like 37% around the $700k US. Not paying 13% sales tax is also a massive advantage. If you only knew how good things could be. Best part? If you actually love Canada for some reason just move back with your low taxed USD and steal a house from a Canadian wagie without ever paid a dime to Canada.

blaming brain drain on high taxes is dumb. no one cares about taxes when you're getting paid double in raw numbers to go to the us. and that's not even considering the currency conversion.

@JeffMcCrimmon80 @MPelletierCIO Healthcare covered by company. I pay extra ~$200 a month to cover my family pretax. Insurance is crazy good never pay for anything, maybe $100 here and there. In early days I even worked with a health coach lmao just while I was exploring benefits. Just get the TN is it advice.

@haydenmalc @MPelletierCIO No health insurance premium shocks? It seems like whenever I hear a story like yours I see a "health insurance for my family is $14k/month with a $100k deductible" one right after it.

TD report on CANADA's BRAIN DRAIN is really interesting. Canada is quietly losing its top talent to the United States in what economists call a silent brain drain. While Canada does a strong job educating highly skilled workers in STEM, engineering, and entrepreneurship, it struggles to keep them due to higher taxes that kick in at much lower income levels, limited opportunities to scale companies, weaker commercialization of ideas, and much better pay and growth potential south of the border. -> Talent leaves mainly through temporary US work visas rather than permanent moves -> Outflows are heavily concentrated among the highest skilled, especially in tech and advanced degrees -> Onward migration is worst among immigrants and top university graduates -> Canada has a missing middle of medium sized firms, relying instead on many tiny businesses and a few large ones -> Personal tax rates often exceed 50 percent in major provinces and apply at much lower thresholds than in the US -> Complex corporate tax rules push entrepreneurs toward tax planning instead of growth All of this weakens productivity, innovation, and domestic returns on education, making Canada a feeder system for the US economy REPORT: economics.td.com/ca-silent-brai…

There was a very distinct moment when the first paycheque dropped and it was way higher than I expected. I assumed I screwed up my deductions. The accounts person replied to me that no, nothing’s wrong, this is your correct paycheque. That afternoon I had to go to Home Depot to pick up something, it was $299 instead of $399 CAD. I remember thinking … holy shit I am actually rich af now.

@haydenmalc Wow

@425_hooligan @MarioVerbelen Skill issue

@haydenmalc @MarioVerbelen LOL liar. The best paid "AI" models can't even fix my legacy JSP code without me having to look over every single change.

I'm leaving coding behind me, Bjarne is fully right about AI and if you want performance on the backend you should stick with the manual art of coding. Management needs AI to be in every slide, so in the coming few years there the focus will be all into AI. As a senior my brain refuses to validate AI output, it's way worse than guiding a junior in the team. So my time in tech will end this year, and I'm not sure what my next step will be.

Mate you’re talking about a system that knows every single programming language, including assembly and machine code at a level far above even the best competitive programmers and can string together the insights. It’s quite simply over. AI will build the system at close to theoretical latency and then start designing custom asics for the flow to push it even further. Again, it’s over.

@haydenmalc We can talk when you're generated backed starts responding on average below the 1 millisecond.

@BlackHC @suchenzang >google >principles

@suchenzang At least we still have principles

ouch

@schrockn Nordic autism basically

Why is there such a high concentration of goated engineers in languages/tools from the Netherlands and Denmark: Stroustrup, Heijsberg, DHH, Guido, Djikstra, Moolenaar, Erik Meijer, Lars Bak, Rasmus Lerdorf. Probably missing a bunch. What are those countries doing right?

@mufasaYC Golden age Apple had both taste and pushing SOTA in tech. Now it only has the taste advantage, that’s ok I’ll keep buying their garbage.

Can I say something? Google has the budget, but lacks taste. I cannot imagine Apple using such a background for showing off this feature (looks like the venue is under construction).

@KevinNaughtonJr Atoms

i feel like the golden age of software engineering was ~2019 > pay was good > job market was good > being able to code meant something > pre LLMs so you still had to use your brain > pre pandemic so you appreciated when you could work from home but didn't expect it in 2026 engineering just doesn't seem to scratch the same itch for me anymore i wonder what will replace it

@GergelyOrosz The code abstraction layer is over. Get comfortable with it.

Situation 1: dev A thinks approach X is correct, dev B thinks Y is the right way. They argue and try to convince each other. Situation 2: dev A thinks approach X is correct, tells the LLM to implement it. There is SO MUCH learning in Situation 1, lost when using LLMs....

@haider1 Bro is on Sonnet 3.7 still

Creator of C++, Bjarne Stroustrup: AI-generated code isn't ready — it generates more bugs, more bloat, more security holes, and is nearly impossible to validate "senior developers are already retiring rather than deal with it" The problem is that even a small prompt change can shift the entire codebase in unpredictable ways

@markgurman Anyone using an iPhone in 2026 can just that it’s just a wrapper for the OAI app. Smart hardware emg should reallocate their hardware ambitions accordingly.

For its part, Apple has been furious for over a year about OpenAI’s aggressive recruiting of its hardware engineers for its AI devices division that was acquired from former Apple design chief Jony Ive. Apple has also been wary of OpenAI’s privacy practices.

@jmkettle You deserved this tbh for a broke ass review.

Giving a restaurant a three star review is illegal in Germany.

@RailAlberta Because the solution is getting the people you’d be asking to look into this not to have jobs.

What if instead of complaining about the supposed cost, we start questioning why costs in North America are so high and work towards lowering them? Morocco and Uzbekistan can figure out how to do this stuff. But Canadians have a "can't do" attitude when it comes to these things.

>(To people who think this is unfair, why do you think citizenship and loyalty don’t have value? Canada isn’t some free insurance/retirement plan, sorry) At 50% tax rates US based SWE would be paying in $10k/$100ks a year incremental tax to Canada and we would still be hated by the liberals. I’m sorry but the insurance/retirement prospects of Canada are of minimal value when you’re making bank in USA. Ffs just decimate the Government worker and NGO complex so people can actually build and Canada will be a paradise. Simple as.

There’s been a lot of ink spilled on the TN visa and “brain drain.” But the debate is shallow. It confuses the mechanism with the problem. Two things are true at the same time: A) Canada should care that it subsidizes the outflow of talent. B) Canada should focus far more on becoming a place where high-potential people see opportunities to stay and build great lives. The TN visa is not the lever. Even if you killed it tomorrow, the United States could stand up a new fast-track without asking permission. We will have to compete for our talent. But there are real things here we should be debating. 1) Should we gear more of our higher education system to be loan-based, and then forgive the loans for young people who stay in Canada? Yes to positive incentives for staying. 2) The United States taxes based on citizenship. If an American succeeds abroad, the IRS still has a claim. Canada does not, but should we? If Canadians are successful abroad, it directly helps us lower taxes at home to be even more competitive. (To people who think this is unfair, why do you think citizenship and loyalty don’t have value? Canada isn’t some free insurance/retirement plan, sorry) 3) Can we grapple with the fact our systems have made too much of our economy uncompetitive? We have to address our oligopoly problem through meaningful permitting and competition reform. I talk about this a lot, but Canadians do not understand how much our insider economy is undermining us. To raise incomes, you need competition for talent. And where there is competition, premium on highly talented is even greater. That’s how you create opportunities for High Potential Canadians. 4) Are we able to recognize that public policy has become extractive on young people? Just look at programs like OAS, where income clawbacks don’t start until a retired couple has $180K in income. The same threshold is like $65K with families. As our society has aged, we increasingly have said no to progress and development in the real world because it’s disruptive. But that’s exactly how opportunities get created. Our nation’s decline is primarily burdening the young. 5) Housing, housing, and housing again. But no political leaders get what it’s going to take to fix it. This is the quiet driver of everything. Work in Canada no longer reliably translates into ownership, stability, or a clear path forward. That changes behaviour. It reduces risk-taking. It makes leaving rational. You don’t need to outbid the U.S. on wages if you can offer a credible path to a good life. A home. Strong schools. Healthcare that works when it matters. Wow, this turned into a longer rant than expected lol!

@yacineMTB >vote Lmao

"wah wah canada is toast" i mean yeah its not looking great. get a job and vote

can't stand doomers man