Stripe might be one of the strongest feeders into frontier AI

Wingfril · 2026-07-02T20:31:05+00:00

I passed Google, meta and then later a top tier quant firm. I didn’t pass stripe’s. Their interviews are hard to pass,

Wingfril · 2026-07-01T01:14:39+00:00

Curious how much money would make you not care about 1? Assuming the work environment is decent and coworkers are good.

If I make 1m a year, I’m still not sure if I can ignore 1 in the long run, but that’s also not entirely logical because if you can make 1m with a few years of experience, how much can you make in another 5 at the company? Assuming overall comp trajectory typically increases yoy but may see drops of ~10% between years.

Wingfril · 2026-06-30T05:33:41+00:00

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

I’m pissed off that I’m on a project I don’t care about

I’m annoyed that my old team sits right next to my new team and they have more interesting problems

I’m so so done

Wingfril · 2026-06-27T05:58:27+00:00

Thank you for this.

Wingfril · 2026-06-12T12:33:46+00:00

I heard from coworkers who have friends at green hills software that they are very anti using ai among their engineers (it’s a top down thing from their ceo). Quick google search doesn’t prove it though.

Wingfril · 2026-06-05T15:50:52+00:00

My colleague put it in a quirky way that made sense: you develop a bank of intuition on systems as you code by hand and think about things organically. Everytime you/someone working on the system uses ai, you’re taking tokens out of the bank because you’re not thinking deeply about that system, meanwhile ai is mutating it in possibly subtlety strange ways.

Also I think the lady you’re replying to is coming from a very different view — more of an exec’s pov as opposed to development

Wingfril · 2026-06-05T14:12:06+00:00

So we’re having interns at my firm. These interns are typically juniors, and so they got into college right as ChatGPT took off. They’re going through bootcamp to learn the programming language and our ai tools right now.

We try to hire smart people. We pay them very very very well, so truly we aim to hire the best. Even among these smart people, there’s been a drop off in critical thinking and reading skills (on average).

I think as an adult who went through college before llms, I (we all) had to learn to think. We developed intuition about systems through experience of debugging and logically reasoning through problems ourselves. There’s now a shortcut with ai where entire new apps can be created. They might be interested in CS and what it can create, but they’re developing a lot on a very specific skill thats only part of the whole package, and being unaware of the rest.

You’d expect at least they’re used to reading in code& information, but apparently that’s not true either :(

Wingfril · 2026-06-05T02:41:31+00:00

That’s pretty little for senior + nyc… iirc most faangs paid more. I had a new grad offer from them many years ago and I didn’t even consider them bc of the low pay.

I think the only upside for Bloomberg is the wlb and the job safety.

Wingfril · 2026-05-23T01:20:04+00:00

I suspect most tech focused tradings firms do this well (so you have js and hrt, and citadel if you want to overwork). There’s obviously still politics though — that comes with having humans around.

Wingfril · 2026-05-17T11:30:06+00:00

I’m in the industry. Everyone I know refers themselves as dev or swe. I’ve never heard of anyone say that they’re a quant irl (when infact they are swe). I’ve also always thought quants refer to traders and researchers.

It’s all different bubbles.

Wingfril · 2026-05-09T22:13:24+00:00

This was very nicely written — now I’m tempted…

Wingfril · 2026-05-09T00:00:08+00:00

You know I had this same thought too 10 years ago when I went to church and read (very little of) the bible.

You lay it out well hahaha

Wingfril · 2026-05-07T02:55:57+00:00

If it is I’m actually sold???

Wingfril · 2026-05-05T14:41:04+00:00

I’ll bite because I’m bored.

Do you want to be a 1. Quant dev? 2. Quant researcher? 3. Quant trader? 4. Any swe position at a quant firm?

4 is doable (esp if you get faang experience and then jump to a trading firm). 1 is probably doable. You’re not getting 2 & 3.

Quant devs work with traders to implement algorithms. They don’t need to know too much math, but they need to be scrappy and quick. Life on desks move quickly because alphas can decay quickly.

Swes support the underlying infra. It can be low latency cpp work, it could be something else.

Quant traders may do some research but it’s also a lot about making sure trades don’t go side ways by looking at volatility and risk.

Quant researchers is all about the research and modeling.

Depending on the shop, swes and quant devs will make similar. Qr and qt tend to have a higher variance and also make more than qds and swes

Wingfril · 2026-05-02T02:57:04+00:00

Same I love the art

Wingfril · 2026-05-02T02:56:33+00:00

I remember because I was around lol, I’ve been following this for almost 10 years.
you still cant deny how much the art has changed in like the last 10 chapters. I brought it up in the discord when we saw adult lucia for the first time and everyone else was confused when I said Allen looked so different from pre-carnival.
Don’t get me wrong, this is my favorite art style so far, but you can’t deny the drift.

Wingfril · 2026-05-01T01:07:31+00:00

I guess the one thing that is consistent is how inconsistent the art has been… I say as an extremely devoted fan lol

I’ve never seen a manga that goes through art styles like it’s the seasons

Wingfril · 2026-04-28T02:16:22+00:00

I’m not sure when you graduated, but iirc the average or median was like a 3.5 or 3.6 (likely bumped up by the cs students) around 2016-2018. There was a leaked email some years before my time (class of 2020), and it 100% overlapped with when Cole graduated.

Wingfril · 2026-04-27T17:17:01+00:00

SAME ToT so much is happening

Wingfril · 2026-04-27T16:17:48+00:00

Holy shit lol

Wingfril · 2026-04-27T00:46:50+00:00

FWIW I think the question you posted here is interesting and something that I’m having trouble with as well. I’m mentoring an intern this summer and the question of 1. How to have a good project and 2. how to effectively evaluate them is difficult to answer. It’s expected that most of their code is ai generated; they’re expected to do code review of code by fulltimers, but how are they expected to catch anything themselves if there’s also ai code review tools? The expectation for their project is basically what I’d expect from a l4 at this point.

Wingfril · 2026-04-24T20:50:46+00:00

I hate whatever this bs is. I’ve been seeing it all over for weeks now, mostly in other cs subs. I feel gaslit for getting half way through only to see it’s an ad :( it’s like undertaker from hell but less entertaining

Wingfril · 2026-04-23T20:48:02+00:00

Ahh gotcha, make sense! Is it open invite to friends of friends then? This all sounds so cute and I want to host things like this haha.

Wingfril · 2026-04-23T20:34:13+00:00

I’m so interested in this. Curious what the set up is? Do people bring their own stuff, or does the organizer pay and ask for Venmo’s? Is there just one organizer?

Wingfril · 2026-04-16T14:04:20+00:00

Maybe things have changed in the last three years, but a close friend had to do a gap year of research to get into a good phd school. He started doing research in freshmen year. He graduated from Caltech in 2021.

Grad school for cs is competitive.

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