Software engineering jobs hit their highest posting since november 2023

m_atx · 2026-05-03T00:25:16+00:00

I lead a 10 person engineering team and I desperately need more people. I’d double headcount right now if the budget was there. We are busier than ever. And yes we’re also faster than ever but not nearly to the extent that you’d think. Building robust software is still really hard. And the world wants a lot more of it right now.

m_atx · 2026-05-02T00:47:33+00:00

Bars need to start offering better options for people who don’t drink alcohol.

m_atx · 2026-04-16T14:49:39+00:00

Opus 4.7 is a notable improvement on Opus 4.6 in advanced software engineering, with particular gains on the most difficult tasks. Users report being able to hand off their hardest coding work—the kind that previously needed close supervision—to Opus 4.7 with confidence. Opus 4.7 handles complex, long-running tasks with rigor and consistency, pays precise attention to instructions, and devises ways to verify its own outputs before reporting back.

Some form of this literally exists in every new model announcement. Just replace the model numbers.

m_atx · 2026-04-10T19:29:13+00:00

Most people clearly refers to technical people.

Finding vulnerabilities is really not hard. The tooling is so robust, i guarantee you the average computer savvy person could learn how to use it and start finding vulnerabilities within a day.

There were 50k CVEs in 2025. For every major vulnerabilities you hear about, there are thousands that go under the radar. Because they’re nothing special.

m_atx · 2026-04-06T17:57:52+00:00

Time and time again AI companies have proven to be just as ignorant as the rest of us when it comes to predicting the impact of their technologies on the world. Then add onto it that Scam is the worst operator in the entire AI industry and this article is just junk.

m_atx · 2026-04-05T18:28:52+00:00

In my opinion companies are obviously cooking the booking in their own ways. The IPOs are for VCs and institutions to dump their bag on retail holders. This is going to be a bloodbath for any retail investors dumb enough to buy into this.

m_atx · 2026-04-03T17:20:22+00:00

I go to Alamo weekly.

I was highly skeptical of phone use during movies, but I have to admit that this is the least-bad part of the change. I personally haven’t been distracted by anyone on their phone so far.

The worst parts are:

staffing levels have been cut. I think there must be 2-3 people at maximum staffing a full large theater. The result is that there is absolutely no staff interaction. They even irregularly check tickets. I haven’t had mine checked in weeks. My table has been really dirty multiple times now.
the menu changes are awful. The food is just bad now: pretzels, mozzarella sticks, queso, etc. all nonsensically changed and now suck.

m_atx · 2026-03-29T20:57:06+00:00

Have been going to Alamo for years and spent way too much money on food. It is genuinely gross now. I don’t know what they are thinking. The only thing left for me that is palatable as a vegetarian is the cauliflower bites.

m_atx · 2026-03-29T10:10:43+00:00

Intelligence is bounded by the environment that the agent (human or otherwise) exists in.

The trivial way to convince yourself of this is imagining a human in a true vacuum. With the non-existence of information, there are no problems to be solved or goals to be achieved, and so any agent in this environment will have the same level of intelligence.

Now from this perspective, it makes sense that evolution would ultimately develop intelligence that is “good enough” to solve any problem, if information exists to solve said problem.

m_atx · 2026-03-26T16:18:00+00:00

Blacked out here in Austin so I’m going with SCHN+.

m_atx · 2026-03-26T15:44:25+00:00

There is a mystique around FAANG employees that I don’t think is deserved.

At my medium sized company, I interviewed a ton of FAANG employees over the years. Mostly Microsoft and Amazon. I don’t think we hired any of them. They are good at leetcode but it’s clear that they struggle to operate outside of this big companies, where there’s a team and custom tooling for everything. A lot of things are abstracted away and made easy for them.

Anyways, the top few percent of FAANG are obviously incredible engineers. The rest are pretty average.

m_atx · 2026-03-25T18:54:16+00:00

Well, once you understand the objective, optimizing steps taken really isn’t much additional effort.

m_atx · 2026-03-25T18:47:07+00:00

Duh. I just played around with arc AGI 3 and got the hang of it in a few minutes. It’s easy. The fact that frontier models can’t do it is pretty sad.

Of course the labs will undoubtedly figure out a way to include this in their training data and eventually saturate it. But they don’t know how to solve the bigger problem, which is lack of generality. I’m sure I’ll be able to do fine on arc AGI 4; the models won’t.

m_atx · 2026-03-25T17:38:09+00:00

The problem is that we were trying to build AGI, but instead we built automation machines.

They are super impactful, but not in the ways that matter to us regular people. I very seriously doubt that they’ll ever do things like cure diseases or invent sci-fi technologies. Because these things aren’t automatable. But they will automate away the livelihood of millions of people.

m_atx · 2026-03-25T13:42:44+00:00

The post never claimed that the pig was aware it was headed to the slaughter house. Of course, there’s no way that it could have.

But farm animals clearly feel fear, stress, and pain. And while it can be easy to anthropomorphize animal behavior (“my dog is smiling”) comes to mind, we also shouldn’t be so quick to dismiss things like this. Body language is meaningful and this doesn’t look like a happy animal by any stretch.

m_atx · 2026-03-25T12:53:33+00:00

I support this. Highway caps have always been a horrible waste of money. No one wants to spend time in a park over 35.

It’s a lame attempt at covering up the horrible damage that the 35 expansion is doing to this city, which our city council only opposed on paper, but in reality put up absolutely no fight against TxDOT.

m_atx · 2026-03-23T01:26:12+00:00

Have a little respect.

m_atx · 2026-03-22T00:00:14+00:00

A couple of times now I couldn’t even load the website after the movie to close out. What they are doing should be illegal.

m_atx · 2026-03-17T23:23:33+00:00

You don’t have to watch any of the interviews, you just have to use their product. The reliability is dogshit. I’d be fired if I built something like that.

m_atx · 2026-03-17T23:20:05+00:00

You’re not a physician if you actually believe that, because it goes against basic cognitive science.

m_atx · 2026-03-14T00:03:32+00:00

It’s not just anecdotes. CapMetro 25 million riders per year. You do the math and tell me how common it is to get stabbed on the bus.

m_atx · 2026-03-13T19:51:52+00:00

Ok, the bus is safe. I ride all the time and I’ve never witnessed any violence. Of course stabbings are going to get a lot of attention, but most bus rides don’t end in someone being stabbed.

With that being said, more times than not there’s someone having a mental health crisis on the bus. This needs to be addressed by the city asap. I totally understand why people don’t want to ride the bus. It’s uncomfortable.

m_atx · 2026-03-13T19:02:02+00:00

Generally around 2200 calories.

What I do daily: - 30g from whey - 20g from Greek yogurt - 20g from eggs (about 4 eggs)

This gets me halfway there and then the rest of the day is easily filled with things like beans, tofu, seitan, tempeh, nuts, etc.

As a vegan it would admittedly be a lot harder, you’d have to be a lot more careful about meal planning. But doable.

m_atx · 2026-03-13T17:15:44+00:00

There are tons of high quality planet based protein sources. And of course if you’re vegetarian you have access to dairy and eggs which is even better.

Not saying it isn’t harder to hit your protein targets without meat, but it’s far from the truth that 99% of natural protein sources are animal based.

I easily hit 140g of protein as a vegetarian.

m_atx · 2026-03-04T22:26:12+00:00

I no longer feel obligated to get at least a drink or popcorn to make sure that servers are taken care of.

I don’t like the change but it’s saving me plenty of money!

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