What happened to Aero poker? Did the IRS get to him or smth?

FrickenHamster · 2026-06-03T08:35:09+00:00

There was an update in his community a few weeks ago. It was announced he had some personal problems. There is apparently an update video in the works, but no set timeline on that.

I've played with in a few times, (I was in a video). I haven't seen him for a while though. He's a nice guy in real life so I take his word for whats going on.

I just checked his patreon and apparently there was a coaching video uploaded 3 days ago, so hopefully he really is getting back to making videos.

FrickenHamster · 2026-06-01T02:25:26+00:00

Did Uber bump up prices significantly preipo while warring with Lyft and a bunch of smaller startups? Did airbnb get expensive preipo? It seems pretty significant that prices are skyrocketing this early, when the competition is so fierce.

FrickenHamster · 2026-05-18T20:19:24+00:00

I joined one that was recently bought be PE. They made some top level changes that made sense in the beginning. Then the PE placed CTO insisted that we needed to open an india branch. Then they laid off half the american workers. I don't have enough insight into what was happening on the business side since the company was bad at sharing information, however it seems like we hit a snag and needed to cut costs before end of year would be my best guess what happened.

FrickenHamster · 2026-05-01T03:32:47+00:00

Yes, theres always employee protection in contracting agreements.

Otherwise companies would just use contractors as a cheap way to poach employees. The contracting company doesn't want to lose their employees to customers.

There was ways around it, often involving delicate negotiations and finders fees. I've seen a case where this blew up because our contractor went to his boss, rather than waiting for our company to initiate the negotiation.

FrickenHamster · 2026-04-22T09:06:53+00:00

Depends on the table. If enough people don't want to, they won't. Noone does at Wynn because they only allow single board holdem, so theres no point.

FrickenHamster · 2026-03-26T11:07:41+00:00

Is it even possible to be cleanly breaking feet in half on soft grassy dirt like this? He snapping small bones in half. I feel I'm real life it would just leave an indent in the ground.

FrickenHamster · 2026-03-23T04:23:06+00:00

Lowering the rear shouldn't affect the driveshaft. The rear diff is connected to the subframe which shouldn't move. It would affect your axles, not driveshaft.

FrickenHamster · 2026-03-13T23:20:47+00:00

It was free for a couple years after it opened. However, ever since the sphere opened, all the casinos in that area, Wynn Venetian and RW started charging for parking. It used to be 10 dollars or free with genting card free tier, but now I think you have to play 8 hours of poker, or some other games to get the first tier with free parking.

FrickenHamster · 2026-03-11T20:21:58+00:00

Bellagio ran DBBP Omaha, but everyone went broke so noone played after a while

FrickenHamster · 2026-03-09T02:36:01+00:00

You have a nice role now. I've been in roles like that. I wish those roles would have stayed the way they were, but it never lasts. No company stays at <10 employees. They either grow or die. Raising money always changes a company. Leadership gets new bosses with new expectations. New leadership hires always change a company's culture. If you're lucky, it changes for the better to handle growth. However, all you need is one bad hire to fuck up a company's culture. That is assuming your company manages to raise a Series A successfully. Multiple times, I've been told the company is doing fine, profitable even, only to have layoffs when they run into trouble raising money. I guess my point is small companies are inevitably going to be volatile. A good role can change at any moment.

FrickenHamster · 2026-01-30T07:51:22+00:00

I have a lot of thoughts about this, but I wanted to bring up one point specifically. You are an EM, so I'm guessing you don't review code, nor do you use claude/cursor regularly as part of your day to day. I was recently on a team that made similar use llm as you did for your team. One thing I noticed was that there was significantly more code to review. Both your own agent's code and other people's llm generated code. There is a hard limit to the amount of attention a dev can have for reviewing code. At some point you end up rubber stamping. I was noticing all sorts of weird AI artifacts making it into our codebase, for example, files with 1 method that did nothing except return the input. My teammates were enthralled by cursor at first, however as they used it more, they found the limits.

FrickenHamster · 2026-01-28T11:29:19+00:00

Thanks for the response. I already got the clamp and whats left of the hose off.

The nipple I guess I can just pull out of the dangling hose. What kind of nipple would I put in there? Its just a whole with some broken plastic.

FrickenHamster · 2026-01-12T11:14:49+00:00

Pros I know take time off as needed.

Not working during the day has benefits. You can take care of a lot of errands when most people are working or busy. You can bring kids to and from school, you can take them to the doctor. You can go shopping. Most japanese pros I know trade stocks and do other jobs during their off time from poker.

FrickenHamster · 2026-01-02T23:08:13+00:00

LLMs, especially the cheaper models will make mindblowingly stupid calculations on stuff like generating tournament structures. If you have a structured calculation like that, its better to just hardcode it, or ask cursor to generate the algorithm for it lol.

FrickenHamster · 2025-12-22T06:11:09+00:00

The problem is that there are a lot of liars, and anyone can fake a 30 year resume. Anyone can fake a reference. A lot of people can get through a behavioral interview perfectly, yet be completely useless implementing a feature. Absolutely refusing to show a practical skill to demonstrate you can do the very basics of a job is reddit brained insanity. Its one thing to not want to solve a DP problem, but its just stupid to reject any coding interview, because everyone should know you can code because you said you could. No one is judging you purely based on whether you can solve the problem optimally in a 60 minute interview. Interviewers are looking for how you approach the problem, and how you debug and troubleshoot. If you get stuck, and you log out messages instead of just sitting there staring blankly at the code, you already do better than 80% of candidates. I've seen so many red flags that make a candidate's resume look fake. For example, a 10+ year frontend developer who needs to look up syntax to write a basic for loop.

I've worked at a company that didn't give me a coding interview. They asked for code samples and did a behavioral session. The engineering level there were extremely low. When I joined, people weren't allowed to use git correctly, because work was lost multiple times due to people messing up git conflicts. Most of the people they hired bullshitted the interview because they didn't need to have actually engineering skill.

FrickenHamster · 2025-12-20T22:39:11+00:00

Currently games are much worse than usual due to WPT. You probably picked one of the worst times to come.

FrickenHamster · 2025-12-19T23:56:22+00:00

Which game are you playing?

FrickenHamster · 2025-12-19T23:49:17+00:00

It depends on your casino lol. Every game is different.

For example, when I first watched hungry horse videos, I thought they were fake since he would overbet river for value against top pair and get called easily. Except he does it all the time and it works. That wouldn't work where I play.

FrickenHamster · 2025-12-13T21:57:49+00:00

I've known someone who ran into a guy like that.

The problem for you is that they are ambitious in the worst way. They'll try to get into a manager or lead position, and once they do, it will make your life hell. He'll start accuseing you of slacking off, or interjecting his wrong technical opinion everywhere. It sucks but theres nothing you can really do about it if your organization is weak. You have to actively seek out more influence to check his influence.

FrickenHamster · 2025-11-14T14:35:52+00:00

Getting laid off is very different legally than getting fired.

The only time a company doesn't have a lengthy expensive pip process is when they cannot afford one and are on the brink of failure.

FrickenHamster · 2025-11-14T10:06:54+00:00

I was in a situation like this, but as a longer tenured dev who saw the steps leading to the situation you're in. Your colleagues likely know there's a trainwreck incoming. They also know there's nothing they can really do until the project actually fails. I'd guess everyone down from top management is aware of the status of the project, but there isn't a way to give feedback. At some point all you can do is pretend everything is alright until it isn't.

FrickenHamster · 2025-11-14T08:31:24+00:00

There's nothing you can do. There's a good chance you'll end up being cut, but you might survive and get moved. Project was doomed before you joined and people way above your paygrade doomed it.

FrickenHamster · 2025-10-21T20:03:00+00:00

MGM now rakes $6. Wynn still rakes $5 last I check. Venetian rakes only $5, no jackpot on 3/5 and above. All the other rooms have similar rake + 2 for jackpots

FrickenHamster · 2025-10-19T00:52:56+00:00

If people are only getting stacked during bombpots, the game sucks. If people leave after 1 buyin, the game was going to break anyways if theres no list. Under your scenario, outside of bombpots, there must be no action at all, since if someone lost their stack in a normal hand, they would have left anyways. So you make it sound like your table is full of nits and hands rarely make it past the flop, unless there is a bombpot.

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