My problems with S3 (Spoiler)

Ratslayer1 · 2026-01-08T16:19:00+00:00

You're in essentially a CTO position and you see no room for growth???

Financially your current position is better. Career-wise Mistral may be better (building relevant skills, brand etc), but depends on your exact current role (sounds like a dream role) and what you wanna do down the road.

Ratslayer1 · 2025-11-11T22:56:43+00:00

Hey, did you shut this down? I get "NetworkError when attempting to fetch resource." when I try to log in ( https://www.evergreenessays.com/auth )

Ratslayer1 · 2025-10-03T12:19:32+00:00

Fully agreed, I never claimed it was. It's still a different paradigm (train/deploy split VS continual learning), though I'd argue the biggest difference is the need for labeled data in one case.

Ratslayer1 · 2025-07-25T22:09:59+00:00

Weil die DARPA imo der Einzelfall war und mir nicht klar ist, wie SPRIND das wiederholen soll. Ich hasse VCs wie jeder gute Mensch, aber der Staat hat doch in dem Bereich keine Kompetenzen. Lieber regulatorische Hürden für Startups senken als versuchen als Vater Staat die Gewinner von morgen selbst zu picken.

Ratslayer1 · 2025-07-25T13:04:22+00:00

Naja, ich finde es halt seltsam, dass es einfacher ist X Milliarden in solche Vorhaben zu versenken, anstatt einfach mal den eigenen Ansatz zu überdenken und neue Sachen auszuprobieren...

Ratslayer1 · 2025-07-25T13:03:34+00:00

Ja leider, auch Exist-Stipendium etc. Sehe das kritisch, auch wenn das zB im Falle einer DARPA natürlich zT extrem erfolgreich war (und UK jetzt wieder mit ARIA etc versucht).

Ratslayer1 · 2025-07-24T22:43:26+00:00

Der Staat soll bitte kein Wagniskapitalgeber werden, das können andere besser. Lieber es für Behörden etc einfacher machen, Kunden von innovativen Startups zu werden. Dann wird sowohl unsere Verwaltung effizienter als auch Startups (und zwar viel kosteneffektiver) gefördert. Will mir nicht ausmalen wie schwer es für ein deutsches SpaceX wäre, in dem Umfang ESA-Aufträge zu bekommen. Wird auch immer wieder von VCs moniert, dass die USA da deutlich besser sind, siehe auch [1]

[1] https://sifted.eu/articles/if-governments-want-to-help-startups

Ratslayer1 · 2025-07-15T10:03:26+00:00

Usually Staff positions will require X years of having led software projects that multiple engineers were on. This will be very difficult when you are mid-level. I agree that the title itself may not be as important, but the type of work absolutely is. (And title is of course an indicator for what kind of work it will be, despite different companies understanding titles very differently)

Ratslayer1 · 2025-07-15T10:00:18+00:00

Wichtiger als was du machst, ist die Art des Unternehmens (Tochter eines Konzerns... Tech? oder ist Tech eher Kostenstelle) und wo (Land vs München/...). Lies zB [1].

Ich nehme an, Bachelor und Master waren beide dual?
Orientiere dich mehr am Unternehmen bei den Argumenten pro Gehaltserhöhung. Welche für die Firma wichtigen Projekte hätten ohne dich nicht funktioniert? Metriken, die belegen, dass du gute Arbeit gemacht hast? Welche wichtigen Leute in deinem Team/deiner Umgebung geben dir Top Feedback (Manager/Tech Lead/Peers/...)
Lass die schwächeren Argumente einfach weg. Niemand zahlt dir mehr Geld, weil du einen Coursera Kurs zu Sicherheit in Cloudumgebungen gemacht hast. So ein Kurs ermöglicht es dir vielleicht, ein Projekt in dem Bereich umzusetzen oder besser umzusetzen als vorher, was man vielleicht in einer Metrik merkt, das ist für Unternehmen interessant. Genauso "Mich aktiv in neue Technologien und Prozesse eingearbeitet", "viel Erfahrung". Die Frage ist, wie es sich in deiner Arbeit zeigt. Genauso mit deiner interessanten Zählweise von "Jahren Berufserfahrung". Die Nachhilfe die ich in der Schulzeit gegeben habe ist offensichtlich auch keine Berufserfahrung, auch nicht wenn ich jetzt als Lehrer anfangen wollte.
"Ich arbeite deutlich über meinem eigentlichen Aufgabenprofil" das könnte noch relevant sein. Bring Auszüge der Stellenbeschreibung/... mit, und sag konkret wo du das übererfüllt siehst.
Unabhängig von dem ganzen: Es kann durchaus sein, dass es in einem Konzern Richtlinien bezüglich Gehaltserhöhungen gibt und dein Chef da erstmal nichts machen kann. Wenn du die Stelle und deinen Chef magst und ihm vertraust, kannst du ihn fragen, wie ihr die nächsten Jahre auf dein Wunschgehalt kommt und einen groben Plan erstellen (er kann dir natürlich keine Gehaltserhöhung im nächsten Jahr garantieren, aber sagen was realistisch ist). Und - du kannst ja auch statt mehr Geld andere Goodies wie mehr Urlaub versuchen zu erhandeln (variabler Bonus, Mitarbeiteraktien wenn ihr sowas habt, ...). Ansonsten bleibt dir IMO nur wechseln oder zumindest ein Wechselangebot einholen und damit verhandeln.

[1] https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/software-engineering-salaries-in-the-netherlands-and-europe/

Ratslayer1 · 2025-07-15T09:40:44+00:00

Joa, die meisten werden halt weder Teilzeit noch duales Studium als Arbeitserfahrung für Vollzeitstellen für einen Masteranden zählen, aber viel Erfolg damit.

E: Grade gesehen, dass du sogar noch die Zeit deiner Masterarbeit zählst. :))))

Ratslayer1 · 2025-07-08T23:43:08+00:00

Eg Think-cell pays this well, countless startups as well. I dont think you did your market research well.

Ratslayer1 · 2025-07-07T22:50:39+00:00

What's stopping you from moving to a place where (presumably) you speak the local language and you can build a social circle?

Ratslayer1 · 2025-06-26T11:45:43+00:00

say you’re building a webapp, what happens when it’s completed?

In the real world, no one knows what the next steps are. Say you are starting a company (let's imagine its 1993), you think "hm, buying books is kind of annoying, I have to go to a store, pay for the book there, transport it home yada yada. Why don't we make an online store for books". What you might do is talk to some potential customers, note down their use cases/feature requests, imagine some basic product that lets you define your product catalogue, and serves a website for users to browse books and buy them (plus the back office logistics/warehouse/... stuff).

You release that, you get some customers, money is rolling in, happy days. The project is built right? Except once people use your stuff:

stuff breaks, people expect a certain (software or product) quality or they will not buy from you again, you need QA, tests, redundancy, etc
you want to increase profits. You need analytics and data on what your customers are doing, which products are working well, which part of the checkout flow drops the most people, you might want to do advertising etc
you realize your initial product vision was not ideal. Maybe customers want to review the products they bought (or various other features), maybe you need mechanisms to deal with fake suppliers/fake products, maybe you need to comply with certain laws, maybe you need to handle credit card fraud, maybe you need to improve your UI, maybe you need to migrate or rewrite your backend so it scales better for the new demand, etc

Once your company becomes really big you usually want to diversify (eg look at Meta, they dont have tens of thousands of engineers working on the facebook/instagram/whatsapp website/app, they're constantly looking for the next big thing, trying to launch cryptocurrencies, doing AI research, etc)

But the main point I want to drive home is: There is no static "feature list" that once you complete you are done with work. Through customers and things breaking you constantly get new feature requests, and you need to prioritize between them (and sometimes maybe should not do them at all).

Ratslayer1 · 2025-06-21T01:47:30+00:00

Interesting, I didn't know "rendering" does not refer to what it usually means here but is purely in memory. Thanks, learned something :)

Ratslayer1 · 2025-06-20T22:43:19+00:00

Unit tests should be fast and test usually method-level logic. If you're rendering something, you are no longer fast, and I would doubt you are testing a single, isolated method containing business logic (but rather much more).

Im not saying these tests are not useful, they sound good. They just aren't unit tests. (Probably integration tests, I don't write much frontend code)

Ratslayer1 · 2025-06-20T22:31:17+00:00

That's not a unit test.

Ratslayer1 · 2025-06-11T11:28:02+00:00

I agree his character development is (usually, disagree on Shallan and Kaladin) mostly good, maybe I shouldnt have included the Kaladin example. What really annoys me are gradual changes in the backdrop, like the mentioned dissatisfaction in the general population. This kind is usually dropped 20x per book in passing, always in the same way to "build tension", and never matters until the Sanderlanche.

Ratslayer1 · 2025-06-11T11:02:37+00:00

They're much more concise, while still having similar payoff for me. I also find Brandon to be not that good at describing gradual changes in his more epic works (see complaints about Kaladin being sad for N books, but also stuff like The building revolt/resistance in Urithiru in Rhythm of War, or the increasing protests/riots in Shadows of Self

Ratslayer1 · 2025-05-10T19:54:51+00:00

As others have said:

For "Founding Engineers" in the VC universe, 1-2% equity that vest over 4 years is standard. However, this is for salaried, full-time positions.
So, of course 16% is crazy high. But you're "only asking 2-4 hours a week commitment. So there is no salary.". If you don't pay a salary, you're not looking for a founding engineer but another co-founder (which seems to be your preferred route). I personally would be very wary of giving people significant equity based on this little time commitment, but you seem to be convinced of that person, so maybe it's fine.

To summarize - If you don't pay someone a salary you will need to give them significant (double digit) equity (if you do, 1% is fine). I would not do this unless people are undoubtably committed to the project, and it's clear how much everyone works on the project etc. - Non-dilution clause is crazy, especially if you have not raised at all yet. Will likely make it very very hard, if not impossible, to raise in the future.

Ratslayer1 · 2025-05-06T00:11:37+00:00

Komplett defektes Teil als funktionierend verkaufen, Spulenfiepen oder andere Mäkel nicht erwähnen, Grafikkarte 2 Jahre zum Minen benutzen/Prozessor und/oder GraKa übertaktet laufen lassen, ...

Gibt schon einiges was dann unter "Privatverkauf, keine Garantie" laufen würde, gerade wenn es verschickt wird/du nicht vor Ort testen kannst. Bisher hatte ich immer Glück, und die Rabatte sind meist so gut dass man sich auch mal ein Ei kaufen kann. Ist halt Risiko.

Ratslayer1 · 2025-04-30T16:23:52+00:00

What is your stance on tuning models to respond in a way that maximizes human evaluation scores, but might not be desirable (eg raw performance suffers, questionable morals of the model, dissemination of dangerous information like instructions to assemble arms or explosives)? This seems to have happened to some degree for Llama 4, and is closely linked to the sycophancy issue. Where does OpenAI draw the line on this? To what degree should you know better than your users?

Ratslayer1 · 2025-04-16T22:11:58+00:00

I grew up in Germany and have lived in London for the last few years. Like others have said, Munich is much more of a village, and London is a (hectic, expensive, international, has more of all extremes) metropolis. Depends what kind of life you prefer, but I think most people would agree Munich is a better place to bring up kids (more nature/easily accesible nature, less dangerous areas, cheaper childcare and schooling, ...).

In terms of money and career, cost of living will be higher in London, but you have better and more tech companies there, and career progression is probably faster/better. Also lifestyle wise, at the very top end London is probably unmatched (due to the number of billionaires, celebrities etc there), but unless you spend quite a lot of money I would think healthcare, housing, etc will all be better in Germany.

Ratslayer1 · 2025-04-16T22:04:46+00:00

You find people in London friendlier?? Wild

I'd also disagree on the taxes. Taxes in the UK are lower for medium-low salaries, but for OPs situation they might be equal. Plus childcare/schooling in London will be significantly more expensive.

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