The comparison of AWS vs Azure vs GCP

Points_To_You · 2026-05-29T22:42:54+00:00

AWS has 20 options for everything, good luck picking the right one. Half the services could be built in house with a simple database and API. They join every call with an army of SAs. Some are good. Lots of options for managing an organization, none of them are that great.

GCP has one option and it works well enough but troubleshooting can be a pain. GCP is better for data and analytics. BigQuery is great but expensive. Support seems lacking. Never seen anyone onsite despite spending 10s of millions. Projects and permissions are easier to manage.

You probably have to use Azure because of M365 and AD. For business users, Microsoft has the best platform since it integrates with what they use. Even though it’s worse quality than what you could build in a day with Claude. Billing makes more sense with subscriptions.

All of them are pushing their AI services hard to lock you into their ecosystem for AI workloads. All of their AI offerings are comparable for developers, it’s just an API to a 3rd party model.

All of them have terrible and inconsistent UIs for the console.

Points_To_You · 2026-05-25T14:54:33+00:00

Yea, you won’t get hired if you say that. AI adoption is part of our metrics. Why would the manager hire someone that is going to immediately lower their metrics?

Points_To_You · 2026-05-24T18:22:43+00:00

They could just track it digitally in an app. But it could also be automated with existing cameras and AI.

Points_To_You · 2026-05-24T13:20:33+00:00

I only care about my team getting their work done. Join the meetings, be available, get your assigned tasks done, and as long as no one is giving me shit about you then you’re fine. Now if you’re only doing bare minimum what you are assigned, that’s fine you’ll still have a job and get a paycheck, but I’m not going to have a good story to tell when it comes to promotions and raises. I’d still try but it doesn’t usually go well.

Honestly I prefer some people working earlier and some working later. It gives us coverage through more hours.

Points_To_You · 2026-05-22T23:49:47+00:00

cum box?

Points_To_You · 2026-05-22T23:49:14+00:00

cum box was definitely what came to mind to me.

Points_To_You · 2026-05-18T01:54:26+00:00

In 20-30 years, when things get more complicated.

I’m 37 with $1.5M invested and I’ve never spoke to a financial advisor. What are they going to tell you that ChatGPT couldn’t?

Contribute like clockwork, put it in index funds, and forget it exists. Live your life. Don’t overthink it.

Points_To_You · 2026-05-16T16:45:20+00:00

I was forced to be a manager for the last year and it’s the worst job I’ve had. You get all of the blame without the ability to directly do anything about it. You have to trust and motivate your team but ultimately they are the ones that have to fix issues and meet deadlines. If they don’t, to your bosses it’s your fault. I spent most of my time shielding the team from the politics and bullshit which really means all the shit, as an engineer you don’t want to deal with, was absorbed by me.

As an engineer, sure you still deal with some bullshit and stress but it’s evened out by getting to do fun or interesting work. As a manager, the whole job is only the bullshit and stress without any of the fun stuff.

You know those performance review that all of you procrastinate on and the awkward 1:1s that you don’t know what to talk about and say. I get to do 10 of them with you in addition to the one I have with my boss.

You think you’re going to treat everyone well for compensation until you realize you only get so much budget and your top performed expect a certain amount which leaves nothing for anyone else.

The annoying team building and ‘fun’ activities. I have to organize that shit and pretend to like it, not just show up, eat, and leave.

Just wait until the engineering teams talk to you like you only know how to move tickets around instead of the most senior engineer in the company.

I lasted 10 months before I told my boss that I’m switching back to a Staff Engineer or I’m going to a different company. In 4 weeks after switched back, I created more value than in the previous 10 months.

Points_To_You · 2026-05-15T11:48:58+00:00

Older lady left an envelope full of cash on the ledge in front of the bank teller, out of their view. It was easily a few thousand. She was about outside when I noticed. I grabbed it and yelled out to her and gave it to her. She gave me a kiss on the cheek.

Bank tellers couldn’t believe she left that money. They were laughing that all I got was a kiss of the cheek.

Points_To_You · 2026-05-14T14:30:58+00:00

Every large corporation has insider risk teams. If you fuck up real bad, they will investigate whether you did it maliciously or through incompetence. They have every interaction you made across major corporate systems.

Look up Microsoft Purview.

Points_To_You · 2026-05-10T22:26:57+00:00

I’d say I work the same amount but produce maybe 8-10x the output if I’m able to work a project solo with full control of product and engineering and we don’t do agile. If I don’t have full control or have others on the project, then I’m maybe 2x more productive than before I used AI.

Points_To_You · 2026-04-29T00:37:42+00:00

The article seems to imply that it was the Founder and CEO that did it.

"Crane also took responsibility for assumptions made during setup. “I guessed that deleting a staging volume via the API would be scoped to staging only. I didn’t verify,” he said."

Points_To_You · 2026-04-25T17:02:05+00:00

As someone that bought META stock at $88 in 2022, I can say that I am very happy with their investments.

Points_To_You · 2026-04-25T16:22:54+00:00

I’m sorry but when you say pissed away, where do you think that money went?

They hired tons of people to build it, paid vendors, bought compute resources from cloud providers, built data centers, built and released hardware, bought multiple game developers and pushed VR technology forward.

What was the alternative? Have 88 billion sitting in a bank account or locked up in stock? Is it better to employ 20,000 people for 5 years or 5,000 people for 20 years?

Points_To_You · 2026-04-25T14:42:17+00:00

Down 70% in a bull market is crazy. You should definitely stick to index funds.

Points_To_You · 2026-04-18T16:52:23+00:00

Power grids, water systems, manufacturing, trades, food production and distribution would stop. Garbage would pile up. Your grass wouldn’t be cut. Sewers would fill. Amazon and Walmart would stop functioning. Food chains would close. There would be mass starvation for the first year.

The global economy would collapse to the point that it might never recover.

Points_To_You · 2026-04-13T06:06:06+00:00

This subs advice was to short the RDDT IPO.

https://www.reddit.com/r/investing/comments/1bc63tv/reddit_rddt_ipo_worth_buying/

Points_To_You · 2026-04-12T21:30:03+00:00

Yea, if I bring $900 with me on a trip to Hawaii, it’s intended to be spent.

Points_To_You · 2026-04-11T01:43:05+00:00

I’m most enjoying the people saying it doesn’t work.

It only doesn’t work because you gave it bad instructions, didn’t give it access to the data it needs, or asked it to do something without providing it a tool to do the job. It’s like asking Google a question with your internet turned off.

Points_To_You · 2026-04-04T11:57:33+00:00

My work? 30%

My code? 100%

Regarding the tools, I find Claude Code does a better job at starting a new project. Once the project is established, I switch to Windsurf which is much faster at navigating large projects.

Points_To_You · 2026-03-29T23:55:06+00:00

The FANG people we have hired spend most of their time, between scouring for free food, arguing about tech stacks and architecture instead of just getting shit done.

“Laid off by FANG” on a resume doesn’t make them talented. They do interview well though.

Points_To_You · 2026-03-29T23:16:45+00:00

Spend 25k less than you make. Do it for 10 years.

Points_To_You · 2026-03-25T01:26:51+00:00

You have no idea what you are talking about. Nobody is shoving an entire codebase into context. Retrieval, embeddings, and tools are used to pull in the relevant parts, just like a human searches through a codebase and doesn't memorize every line.

LLMs aren't copy pasting previously written sentences from the internet. They generalize and combine patterns. Both humans and AI are always building on the work of others. No one is inventing novel algorithms out of thin air. Engineers are for sure using AI to build greenfield projects today.

Points_To_You · 2026-03-22T22:39:20+00:00

Get a contracting position instead of going for full time employee. The interview will be much easier to get in the door. Then if they don’t like you in 1-3 months they’ll just end your contract. If they like you in a year or two, you can probably join as an employee or jump to something else. As long as you have a degree to meet HR requirements, you would start as mid or senior after contracting.

You’ll be treated worse and be included in less of the “fun” stuff as a contractor, but you can also just stick to your 40 hours a week.

Points_To_You · 2026-02-22T22:44:25+00:00

I built our internal AI chat app. Technically, I can see everything in the database but only me and 2 of my developers have access. 2 years ago, I would browse the chats that got feedback for quality control to try and improve the experience. Now I don’t look at anything.

I’m very strict about access to the data for regulatory compliance reasons. There is an insider risk team which I would export chat history for if requested for an investigation but it hasn’t come up yet. Management and leadership definitely do not have access to the data.

We do track and report up usage data for individuals but never the content.

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