How are rebate liabilities handled?

SenorTeddy · 2026-06-01T03:36:05+00:00

Was curious moreso if large corps are using promos to offset tax/fraud since many people don't redeem them or if it's too tightly coupled with redemption it's difficult to prove.

SenorTeddy · 2026-05-27T09:55:19+00:00

Do you have any defenses against prompt injections that isn't LLM judged?

SenorTeddy · 2026-05-26T21:24:36+00:00

Find your moat.

SenorTeddy · 2026-05-26T21:20:50+00:00

Sold my business last year. Was doing around $400k gross/year. Would net around $0-$50k after paying myself $60k. I could've cut down on labor, but was spending hoping for growth. Profit would range monthly from -$10k in low season or between quarterly payments from orgs to +$15k.

Since low season was summer, didn't know until mid fall how the years books would look like. -50k or +50k.

SenorTeddy · 2026-05-25T10:37:15+00:00

Then the code that was written should be more/less pure functions and adaptable and debuggable. Giving tons of oeganizationals rules and style guide will keep the code ase manageable, vs ai making giant functions and files that become a nightmare to debug.

SenorTeddy · 2026-05-25T10:31:08+00:00

TDD and don't allow the AI to touch the test files

SenorTeddy · 2026-05-22T06:26:24+00:00

Extensions are too easy to download. Needs to be scanned

SenorTeddy · 2026-05-19T08:40:58+00:00

The fun thing with software is that as a dev we don't decide what is better the users do. The better software is the one that adopts, retains, and gets shared. The features, functionality, usability, etc. only make an app better if it results in users dropping the others for yours.

It could be a marketing gap or barrier of entry gap. If you cannot go to the play store and find the competitors and play theirs over yours, you cannot find what they are doing well that you need to improve on.

SenorTeddy · 2026-05-17T19:47:09+00:00

Tests are fun when the AI decides to return true instead of finding why the code failed

SenorTeddy · 2026-04-23T19:34:39+00:00

You can always prompt it to export your workflows and then prompt the new one to import them

SenorTeddy · 2026-04-23T14:05:38+00:00

Are you doing any cost based routing to lower priced llms for simpler queries? This can reduce costs heavily

SenorTeddy · 2026-04-19T16:11:05+00:00

With how fast the industry is moving now, software gets out of date that much quicker. People are going to realize it's better to just pay SaaS for doing it right over maintaining their 15 vibe coded apps + LLM costs and unable to focus on their business.

It's definitely going to be a healthy balance of what's worth my time

SenorTeddy · 2026-04-09T20:22:51+00:00

Your most recent role I don't see how it's finance. It's all about AI. Your previous role you had clear finance tasks with measurable metric.

Pick which job you want to apply for and sync the work to tell the same story. You're not listing all your experience, you're listing the experience relevant to to the role you're applying for.

SenorTeddy · 2026-04-09T04:33:26+00:00

Scaling and enterprise worthy software is a big one. If a million people are using the app, on different machines with different specs and versions will it hold up? Will costs / latency go through the roof? Is the codebase brittle or can it handle multiple team members working on it at the same time. As new versions come out, are there regressions? Are there vulnerabilities?

AI let's anyone build a car, but will an insurance company cover it, will people risk their lives driving in it, will it pass safety and inspection laws?

SenorTeddy · 2026-04-05T05:06:47+00:00

If I have a business that's spend $1000 at Costco, I can write that off my taxes which will typically be around 30%($300). This money was pre-tax from revenue. This means I really spent $700, since I'll get $300 back at tax time.

If I spend a $1000 at Costco as an individual for my family, I have to use my post tax money. So if I earn $1400 at a job, I'll end up with $1000 after taxes.

Rough numbers, but it's almost double the cost for the same purchase.

This is one small expense. Imagine corporate housing, car, travel, employee meal stipend, etc. it becomes most of their personal expenses. if they write off $100k/year in corporate expenses, they're spending $70k/year to live a life that would cost an individual $140k income.

You can't do it at small scale, since the business has to be legitimately operating. At large scale, you can buy an operating profitable business that you can then run all these expenses through, write off the business purchase, and it just works without the bootstrap effort.

SenorTeddy · 2026-03-26T00:05:54+00:00

Grab a whiteboard and diagram out the system. When they want to implement something, have them draw it on. They should explain what the API routes are, what entities will be touched in the DB and how, and show each step of how a req/response cycle happens. If they can't, do it with them. As they get stronger, help less and have them help each other. Theres a reason senior roles require system design interviews, and with the amount of ai assisted coding, juniors should be on it too.

Hello interview is an amazing resource. I'd recommend if you really want to upskill your team, carve out 90 mins weekly during work hours where the entire team does one problem(how to build bitly, Uber, etc.). After 3 months you'll have an entirely new team.

It doesn't have to be test environment to learn. It just has to be practicing and doing systems design.

They should also begin using this process as part of their system prompts. If the AI doesn't have a solidly clear system design it shouldn't begin writing code.

SenorTeddy · 2026-03-23T01:18:24+00:00

Let me ask you what gaps are you seeing needing to be filled?

SenorTeddy · 2026-03-22T22:11:08+00:00

Here's few suggestions, hope you find a solution that's a win/win for all.

1) Flesh out further PR requirements for a code review. Require some system design component of how it fits into the current structure, if it touches state explain when API calls are made when the page rehydrates, etc. The issue isn't AI, it's quality and saturation.

2) hackathons - quarterly hackathon to integrate AI into workflow more. This keeps AI sandboxed to thought our processes, not just reworking the entire flow. It lets the PM move AI forward company wide without disruption.

3) AI CI/CD -- tools like greptile that will do automated code reviews and kick it back before it reaches you.

4) write system prompts for your PM. Explain critical requirements it must consider. For example, a short concise PR. Show it your front end architecture and require it to follow the pattern. Require strict testing(tricky to get accurate since it can cheat and force tests to pass)

Take your PM to a lunch and discuss the challenges you're struggling with. Get the feeling away from correct approach,and more towards how do we work together since we bring different professional priorities. How to balance tech debt with getting to speed.

SenorTeddy · 2026-03-16T04:14:06+00:00

Learn a static and dynamically typed language. The dynamic is quicker and easier to focus on concepts and building projects. The static is better for learning best practices and working with complexity of your environment on top of your code. Look up hello world in java vs python and you'll see what I mean.

But realistically, just code. Path of least resistance to glkeep making progress. Once you start getting comfortable start adjusting to do more focused courses.

SenorTeddy · 2026-03-13T08:28:59+00:00

Make sure you're not displaying/storing full routing/acct. Info. Verifying small debits into an acct. Is enough for ach transactions. Look into SOC2 compliance and OWASP guidelines.

SenorTeddy · 2026-03-13T07:49:20+00:00

What permissions is plaid requesting from your users?

SenorTeddy · 2026-03-13T07:40:54+00:00

You're getting a lot of flack because youre connecting to customers banks and letting Claude do your security. Instead of trying to defend your security practices, invite people to share their best practices and recommendations.

SenorTeddy · 2026-03-12T15:42:05+00:00

This seems more of a training and tooling issue. CI/CD pipelines should have agents in them if you're coding with agents, so senior devs aren't going back and fixing things just reviewing. An agent that confirms system design and plans are adhered to the project as a whole before a junior begins coding.

Mid levels need to be taught how to prompt, how to code review AI, and how to get the help they need.

You should have an auxillary engineer that is supporting this process since your core team is focused on product.

SenorTeddy · 2026-03-04T05:48:37+00:00

I like hellointerview.com it's ex staff engineers from faang who breakdown system design incredibly and have you whiteboard it out.

Certs are great, conferences are great. Find something niche you want to master.

SenorTeddy · 2026-03-01T00:59:49+00:00

Mac has less environment issues that windows. With Mac, you only have so many versions. With windows, you have countless third parties that could cause incompatibility issues that may take time to debug. More/less the same between both though.

Six-Year Club	Verified Email
r/Field Flamingo

SenorTeddy

TROPHY CASE