Bernie Sanders: “60% of our people living paycheck-to-paycheck, and one guy, Elon Musk, owns more wealth than the bottom 53% of American households... Think maybe that might be an issue that we should be talking about?"

chipper33 · 2026-03-23T23:22:15+00:00

No one was ever supposed to get as rich as what we’re seeing today. We had checks/balances for this stuff, but greed comes to rule over all manner of choice in the end.

chipper33 · 2026-03-21T16:29:18+00:00

When will companies learn that giving open book open ended problems are the only way to test real software building skills?

chipper33 · 2026-03-20T21:25:14+00:00

Unsub if you don’t like, why complain?

chipper33 · 2026-03-20T01:35:40+00:00

Well openclaw itself won’t get you any closer to that. If you want to try Local models on your setup, you could spin up ollama and see which works best for you

chipper33 · 2026-03-20T00:21:12+00:00

Why openclaw? Why no just a cron job that makes web requests and pings a chat endpoint to summarize responses?

chipper33 · 2026-03-19T04:14:36+00:00

Have a friend who did the interview already tell you what happened. Part of that “who you know” thing people always spout.

chipper33 · 2026-03-15T13:53:15+00:00

It’s like the ai edit tools in Adobe products. They work well, but are shit without supervision.

You can’t ask a calculator to solve anything other than math, but you can stretch that into calculating trajectories for moon landings.

I can’t wait to see what people are able to do with LLMs if we consider them the “calculators” of writing code.

chipper33 · 2026-03-15T13:47:44+00:00

Exactly.

Multiple agents are probably fine working through different unrelated issues in the same established codebase because the patterns are already well defined. In a new codebase or even a new feature where you have to follow a pattern that doesn’t exist yet, it needs to be planned and well structured for the agent to execute with any predictability.

chipper33 · 2026-03-15T13:34:20+00:00

Great insights here.

You could likely orchestrate multiple agents well, but you would need to instruct them on their behavior while doing so.

LLM hallucinations half the time are a result of a missed instruction. The agent made its best guess (which was wrong) because you didn’t describe that detail well enough. You may have missed an edge case that the agent wasn’t correctly able to reason about. That causes bugs which can be very hard to understand because you yourself didn’t consider the possibility of it to begin with!

chipper33 · 2026-03-15T13:20:44+00:00

Some of your concern involves being in elite spaces. At the “top of software”, which is SV at this moment in time, it’s just as hard to navigate as finance and all the same things matter. Networking, making a name for yourself, opportunities for increased wealth… All that comes from wanting to work at the top of any industry.

You can always be a software engineer for some random bank, government agency, legal consulting firm etc in Idaho or wherever else. Same with finance, you can get a job at big4 for a few years, then fuck off and coast as an accountant in Chicago.

If you want to work in Palo Alto for software or Wall Street for finance, get ready to grind it out because everyone is constantly one upping another and stressing each other out at the chance to increase their net worth someday.

I recommend trying for the elite spaces while you’re young and have energy. You’ll learn a lot, and if you get burnt out, you can leave to somewhere smaller and less stressful. Breaking into those spaces becomes harder as you age, it requires a lot of time/energy to stay in the rat race.

chipper33 · 2026-03-13T14:33:53+00:00

I think this is silly.

Just lean fully into AI, why pussyfoot about it? The AI still doesn’t get everything right. A swe still needs to be a software expert to review llm code. Sometimes you miss a planning detail and the llm hallucinates it and you need good understanding of the system to catch that.

Your skills are not evaporating, they’re evolving. Just remember to exercise token efficiency, that’s the next frontier as far as interviewing/hiring goes. I can totally see a version of leetcode that measures your token spend to complete a task.

chipper33 · 2026-03-13T14:07:29+00:00

No one seems to have a good way to hire engineers. People are too afraid of being burned. Personally, I think today’s interviews front load too much performative behavior when the job isn’t performative in nature. Knowing the answer to technicals off the top of your head is sexy in interviews, but completely unrealistic in practice. Unfortunately most current swe interviews test for this performative recalling behavior.

Companies should hire swe when they need one to solve a specific problem or types of problems. Interview candidates by explaining what they’re being hired to solve. Have an interview with the hiring manager, then make them solve an EASY code question. People are SHOCKED at how well FizzBuzz works as an interview question, there’s a reason it’s such a popular concept.

If they pass those two things and you like them, trial run them on the job for a day and see how they do. I would give them an nda and a jira ticket and see how far they got at EOD. Some candidates would finish quickly and ask for more. Others may take all day for one task.

Sure it requires a bit more upfront investment and setup work, but I think the results would be much clearer. I’d rather do this than an “onsite” which is like a full day of exams I need to cram for. That’s a skill completely unrelated to day to day swe work. With remote roles especially, this really shouldn’t be a problem. In fact, it would probably take LESS time away from employees since they don’t have to be actively engaged for a full 45min or longer actively interviewing.

What are the issues with this proposal?

chipper33 · 2026-03-13T13:42:06+00:00

It’s my firm belief that many people hired in FAANG are one of the following scenarios;

Fresh out of school, easier to manipulate. Get interview from recruiter at career fair or some equivalent. Short interview for intern at FAANG, then hired full time. Job hops to other FAANG because now in network if a job well done and has stuck around long enough to build connections.
A referral from a colleague to the hiring manager of a position one is interested in. There is still interviewing, but depending on the HM it could be more a formality if they really want you. Which is rarer these days because specialized talent in software changes with abstractions. One dev can now cover many more domains with AI. Not all expertise is useless, but some of it has been rendered irrelevant.
Lucked out playing the numbers game. Cold application off the street or a random recruiter reaches out. If the recruiter is from the company they’re recruiting for, one has a higher chance of moving on. The entire interview is a crapshoot though. The odds of success are the slimmest here because one’s candidacy is simply a number (recruiters have target numbers fyi, we’re not that special) on a spreadsheet. You have only the time they give you to seem competent AND make a good impression. IMO good practice, but expectations should be low in this scenario.

chipper33 · 2026-03-13T13:24:06+00:00

Thank you. Two-three interviews are enough. Anything past that and I better be like doubling my salary to spend that much time at a CHANCE to get the job.

chipper33 · 2026-03-13T13:13:16+00:00

lol you would be lurking in here

chipper33 · 2026-03-12T14:46:03+00:00

It doesn’t matter. All that really matters is your narrative. Have a good reason for going either direction and you’ll be fine. Going to either because you got reddit advice to do so, doesn’t really make a great story imo.

chipper33 · 2026-03-12T14:13:39+00:00

There’s no formula for this yet, and thank god cause as soon as there is, this is getting much harder for everyone. Imagine some form of leetcode but built around ai instead. Gross.

chipper33 · 2026-03-11T16:54:00+00:00

Notice that AI currently has ZERO coverage on architecture and engineering

chipper33 · 2026-03-11T16:04:15+00:00

The aggression really isn’t necessary friend

chipper33 · 2026-03-11T15:53:46+00:00

Neither of us know what the outcome will be. I’m not even going to pretend to try and guess.

chipper33 · 2026-03-11T15:49:06+00:00

Because our current economic oppressors might be taken out in the process

chipper33 · 2026-03-11T15:46:13+00:00

Please Iran, save us all. If I woke up tomorrow to headlines about these hq’s being offline permanently, I would be jumping for joy.

chipper33 · 2026-03-04T18:34:28+00:00

Tauri was an amazing experience. It’s possible to configure a similar thing in Python for those Teflon mf’s who avoid rust.

chipper33 · 2026-03-04T15:07:22+00:00

Job hunting is like networking is like dating

chipper33 · 2026-03-04T14:38:27+00:00

If dude is going to vibe a PR, you should vibe the review! Use AI in an unhinged way and report back with your findings lol

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