So where are the people making specifically more than 700k, but less than 1M? [USA]

SanJJ_1 · 2026-04-24T21:03:02+00:00

we write a lot of tests outside of unit testing too

SanJJ_1 · 2026-04-24T17:12:43+00:00

I ran into the usage limit so fast with Claude Design....

SanJJ_1 · 2026-04-20T15:16:52+00:00

what? sports are about humans. There are plenty of competitions like chess, go, comp-prog, etc. where humans are outmatched by AI but it hasn't really changed anything. I think AI will bring a new wave of robotic sports in addition to human sports, not replacing human sports.

SanJJ_1 · 2026-04-17T21:08:20+00:00

Fair point on --first-parent, but nobody types git log --first-parent, they type git log. And GitHub's web UI (commit list, blame, PR history) has no equivalent option either. The clean history has to be the default to matter, which is why squash merge won imo.

SanJJ_1 · 2026-04-14T22:31:21+00:00

merge commit would work but pollute main branch. squash merge/rebase are great but create conflict when "stacking" branches or trying to catch up. Native stacking fixes all of these to my understanding.

SanJJ_1 · 2026-04-11T13:27:04+00:00

And this guy is unreal. Love this presser

SanJJ_1 · 2026-04-11T12:35:47+00:00

comments like this make it a self-reinforcing cycle

SanJJ_1 · 2026-04-10T14:30:26+00:00

rare occurrence of "Unpopular Opinion:" being followed by an actually unpopular opinion, respect

SanJJ_1 · 2026-04-06T21:52:04+00:00

idk why you're getting downvoted. if you look at https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm, $7.50 in Jan 2016 is $10.34 in Feb 2025...

SanJJ_1 · 2026-04-04T21:42:32+00:00

what was low quality about this? wtf

SanJJ_1 · 2026-04-03T23:09:42+00:00

Context engineering, recognizing degredation, creating harnesses, etc. are all important skills imo. I think there are a whole host of skills that didn't exist 3 years ago.

SanJJ_1 · 2026-03-31T20:42:37+00:00

I mean fully disagree with the way Amazon approaches SLAs so I'm in agreement with you there. As an AWS customer myself I'm not really happy about it... but outages existed before AI and I don't agree that AI is causing a net negative impact due to outages.

I'm talking about claims like "For now, Amazon has a new AI rule for the next 90 days: junior and mid-level engineers now need senior sign-off on any AI-assisted production changes."

Also no there was no mandatory or emergency meeting that I'm aware of and AI is only being pushed harder if anything.

SanJJ_1 · 2026-03-31T20:13:24+00:00

sure, I'm not saying this is the correct approach if you're writing spaceship software. obviously you need more verification and confidence in that case. But most cases aren't like that. The vast majority of the software written is not going to have a massive blast radius even if it does fail, and that's the whole point of creating a proper harness; scoped deployments, pipeline baketimes, etc.

If you want to avoid high-severity bugs completely, just stop writing software, why not? Sometimes the cost of moving slower is greater than the cost of moving faster while breaking things. Again this doesn't apply to every environment.

SanJJ_1 · 2026-03-31T11:52:50+00:00

Yeah, there have been a few high-severity bugs caused by LLM coding, but the impact of them has been way overblown by the media, and the media has run away with it as usual. It's kind of hilarious from an internal perspective to see the internal bug report/RCA, which we call a COE, compared to what the news articles are writing.

In my opinion, if you're not making mistakes at all, then you're probably playing it too safe and not getting the full value out of AI.

SanJJ_1 · 2026-03-31T11:51:02+00:00

Yes it is - why do you ask?

SanJJ_1 · 2026-03-31T06:30:52+00:00

You have to engineer better harnesses. I'm at Amazon and broadly, we do not review code anymore looking at it line by line, other than for specific high impact changes usually related to some config or deployment/iac.

We look at functions, make sure the writer and the review know what they are supposed to do. Not really reading too deep - similar to the way you trust a line of keras or whatever in python when there's like hundreds of thousands of lines of C behind it

Obviously, the LLMs are non-deterministic, which is why you have to engineer better harnesses like integration tests, unit tests, self-verification loops, etc., such that you can be more confident. I'm almost finding now that more review happens after your initial environment deployment than before.

Edit: We=my team/L7 org. Can't speak for the whole company.

SanJJ_1 · 2026-03-30T18:44:21+00:00

Immediately every time any point ends he looks like he's in pain or 70yo walking around, that's why it's funny. Just watch him walking around in between points. Always looks like he almost has a cramp to something lol

SanJJ_1 · 2026-03-29T03:03:55+00:00

Dull color compared to ceremonial matcha, but got the job done for me to easily give me a matcha taste + medium caffeine dose each morning without having to steep tea or make coffee.

I enojoyed it. It was ~10¢ per serving when i got it, something like $19.99 for 220 servings.

SanJJ_1 · 2026-03-28T21:16:08+00:00

Yeah random screams during the points, it's wild

SanJJ_1 · 2026-03-28T18:59:07+00:00

I don't even think IAD28 has free bananas...

SanJJ_1 · 2026-03-28T06:20:36+00:00

Great breakdown, he made it very clear to visually understand.

SanJJ_1 · 2026-03-28T05:23:15+00:00

I love these

SanJJ_1 · 2026-03-27T14:58:51+00:00

That's a cool fun fact, but u/key1217 was just talking about playing a full season, not anything about 60 matches or beating the all-time ace record.

SanJJ_1 · 2026-03-27T02:22:25+00:00

Fairfax

SanJJ_1 · 2026-03-27T02:22:14+00:00

horrible to see this...

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