
john weis 🔑⚡️☂️🧭⛏️🟩 🦞
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john weis 🔑⚡️☂️🧭⛏️🟩 🦞
@weisjohn
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sent an offer to a senior engineer. she wanted to negotiate. i said sure. she said her demands included unlimited token spend. no problem. she also requested an NVIDIA H100 GPU. this was a key hire, so i was willing to give on that. oh, and unlimited electricity. weird thing to add, but ok. she then asked for $2,000 gold-plated HDMI cables. this is getting fishy, i thought. finally, she asked for a bespoke 20TB data set including every YC Demo Day pitch, every email sent from 2020-2023, and all future SWE-bench tasks. at this point i realized i was negotiating with an OpenClaw what should i do here?






I don't think you'll be able to find a conversation like this one on the internet. I interviewed @EthanEvansVP (former Amazon VP) about every possible corporate politics situation I could think of and he told me everything since he's retired. Topics we covered: • Managing people out + promos via reorgs • Orgs trying to steal scope • How to fire managers • What leverage engineers have when getting managed out • Handling politically skilled operators • Examples of political messaging • Handling bad managers and mutiny • Empire building + effective backchanneling • Influence without authority • How to avoid politics if you hate them It was fascinating in a morbid curiosity kind of way. I heard so many things in this conversation which I wish weren't true but are. Hopefully this conversation is helpful for people navigating corporate politics. Where to watch: • YouTube: youtu.be/6WaeGfLnRvc • Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6GKb77… • Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the… • Transcript: developing.dev/p/amazon-vp-re…

Starting tomorrow at 12pm PT, Claude subscriptions will no longer cover usage on third-party tools like OpenClaw. You can still use these tools with your Claude login via extra usage bundles (now available at a discount), or with a Claude API key.



Reading Genesis makes you wonder if God is just a normal dude who vibe coded us into existence: “Let there be light.”



Honey, I shrunk MiniMax-M2.5 and just squeezed it onto a palm-sized ZGX. To make it fit without catching fire, I pruned the pancake recipes and quantized the whole thing down to NVFP4. It runs. And it runs hard 🏎️💨 I’m testing it as my daily driver against Qwen3 Coder Next.









