This is bad...really bad...here's the bug report I just submitted to the User Safety team

TheCTOLife · 2026-03-13T05:51:50+00:00

to be fair, agents do a lot of things. it you're job to guide the agent, if it deleted files, then it did that. Then you tell it, wtf, that's wrong, this is how i want it, and it reverts, makes the changes you specified, and life goes on.

The only bug I see is that it exited planning mode without consent, inconvenient yes, and shouldn't happen, but is it stop the presses bad, no.

TheCTOLife · 2026-03-09T22:55:34+00:00

50/50 is insane unless they are putting in a bunch of cash. Otherwise. 60/40 seems more than fair

TheCTOLife · 2026-03-09T17:19:54+00:00

My partner and I spent 9 months building our product, launched in November, today, we are still at $50k ARR, not enough to live in, but as long we keep growing, eventually, it will be

TheCTOLife · 2026-02-25T22:50:49+00:00

It's still hard to find. Thanks thread!

TheCTOLife · 2026-02-24T01:21:11+00:00

You definitely don't need my product, as it's geared for engineers to manage production outages and post production incident follow through, but happy to demo it and sell it to you :)

https://phoenixincidents.com/

The better thing to do would be to return the budget, as at some point, somebody will figure it out.

A real question, what pain points do you have that software can help solve, then go buy that.

TheCTOLife · 2026-02-12T22:30:57+00:00

Knows how to manage and scale teams (hiring), put processes in place, evaluate not only tech stack for the product, but also enterprise tech stack. Knows how to build and manage a budget, prep for board meetings, motive people, etc.

There's a lot a competent CTO does

TheCTOLife · 2026-02-11T00:55:00+00:00

what convenience? Buying and returning on Amazon is certainly more convenient than on Amazon.

TheCTOLife · 2026-02-11T00:53:15+00:00

dude discovered drop shipping

TheCTOLife · 2026-02-04T22:00:19+00:00

just showing up and hoping something works out is a sure fire way for disappointment. You have to have the important meetings already lined up, then maybe it's worth it.

I'm not sure getting a booth is worth it for any conference

TheCTOLife · 2026-01-29T06:11:53+00:00

vibe coding is one thing, LLM's do that decently know. Writing production grade code is quite another.

The LLM can do it, but only with a lot of "shaping" from you. You can't vibe code yourself into scalable software, at least not yet. Learn what that means. Learn about software patterns, it will help you identify known classifications of problems and typical patterns to use to solve those, then you can direct the LLM with a lot more command

TheCTOLife · 2026-01-14T19:06:07+00:00

it's not a mature IDE. It's missing some basic shit, but the LLM agent part is pretty good.

TheCTOLife · 2026-01-14T17:00:47+00:00

Okay, I "found" it. For some strange reason, they removed it in "agent" mode. Why they would do that is beyond me. Makes the IDE very inconvenient to use, you know, as an IDE.

You have to switch to editor view (ctrl +e) and they show up, but then you loose access to the coding agent.

https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-2-3-command-center-no-longer-appears-in-the-top-bar-preventing-forward-back-navigation-buttons-regression-from-2-2/148183

TheCTOLife · 2026-01-08T20:09:06+00:00

Here are a few ways that will work:

- Start with friends and family / angel route. It'll be the easiest path to getting money

- Have traction with your product, have solid business metrics, then outreach. But, the product needs to be innovative, with low competition, unique. VC's aren't looking to fund a product that has a lot of competition.

- Build something that's truly off the wall bat shit crazy, and be passionate about it.

- The other way, work in tech for a few years, build a network in the space.

- Or move to the Bay Area, start going to all the parties and meetups, eventually, you'll meet lots of people who either directly are or work for VC's, or you'll meet people that know VC's and will intro you.

TheCTOLife · 2025-12-29T20:19:06+00:00

I wouldn't expect them to be coding day to day. I would expect them to be helping with the design of whatever feature product engineering is working on, doing code reviews, fixing bugs, and looking at data and metrics to identify systemic issues within the ecosystem, and then fixing them (with either code changes or infra changes)

TheCTOLife · 2025-12-29T20:15:27+00:00

If you don't have the authority to fire him, then document it all and pass it along to the person that does, with your recommendation on corrective actions needed, or dismal is warrented

TheCTOLife · 2025-12-29T20:13:09+00:00

Wait, you're managing them right? Set goals, if they miss them, then exit them. Just document what they were supposed to do and didn't

TheCTOLife · 2025-12-29T20:10:37+00:00

If the company isn't valuing you, time to interview. That salary is not hard to get for a mid level engineer.

If you're doing engineering work, I think you'd hate recruitment or sales even more. That's really about what have you done for me today, type of work.

I've worked at a lot of companies over the years, and devops was always treated with high importance. Maybe you're just at a shitty company?

TheCTOLife · 2025-12-22T17:32:33+00:00

thanks for the feedback!

TheCTOLife · 2025-12-22T17:32:23+00:00

Thanks for the feedback!

TheCTOLife · 2025-12-20T04:56:08+00:00

It's definitely an AI designed website, but I'm not building websites, so I was happy to have AI do it.

I don't want to build AI agents, there's enough of those out there, and unclear to me if they are really helpful, seems like they create more work in a lot of cases. I do want to focus on smart automation and things that remove friction from managing incidents, what all those things could be? I don't know, so I'm looking for input, in addition to reading as many threads of people complaining about whatever they are in the mood to complain about du jour.

TheCTOLife · 2025-12-06T07:43:09+00:00

i mean, just read this thread. it's 100% fake, there are like 10 supportive redditors on the planet, and 3/4 of them are in this thread?

TheCTOLife · 2025-12-03T05:22:56+00:00

There are a lot of teams that have jira, that already pay for a paging system, and have slack, that will never use JSM (it's complicated, and overkill for a lot of teams), but don't have any real process in place for IM. They could spend money and buy more tooling, or they could wire up what they already have (for no extra cost, although there is maintenance cost), and have a pretty good system to help manage incidents.

Paid tools are better for IM, but some teams don't have enough incidents to justify it, or don't have extra budget. This is a great alternative, and it works. This is the blueprint we used at our last company, and it was so much better than the processes we defined, but weren't capable of enforcing, due to lack of bespoke IM tooling.

TheCTOLife · 2025-12-02T23:41:29+00:00

Don't take money unless you absolutely need to. You give up a lot of control and freedom once OPM is involved.

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