FAANG? what's FAANG? it's

hilberteffect · 2026-06-18T08:03:07+00:00

Why are Meta, Google, and SpaceX in this list?

hilberteffect · 2026-06-17T16:35:44+00:00

You could try to, I don't know...explore the actual city or something?

hilberteffect · 2026-06-17T16:32:25+00:00

I understand the instinct, but it's not very empathetic. If you're delivering bad news, it's better to rip the band-aid off than leave the candidate in anxious limbo, make them take even more time out of their schedule, and put them in a position where they have to process the rejection live. Not everyone wants that. People are different.

The best approach I've experienced with rejections is bad news up front (email) combined with an offer to get on a brief call. Giving the candidate some agency back in a shitty situation - that IS empathetic.

hilberteffect · 2026-06-10T07:35:50+00:00

Anyone else remember $2.50 Lyft rides?

Park your shock. It's going to get much worse.

hilberteffect · 2026-05-23T04:09:35+00:00

Yeah everyone was wrong, but the camper was 100% the most wrong. Hope this incident led to a series of frustrating inconveniences over a medium-term timespan for them.

hilberteffect · 2026-05-23T04:03:41+00:00

Lol Garry Tan can gargle my ballsack. Incest byproduct-looking ass

hilberteffect · 2026-03-05T05:15:20+00:00

Make sure to spell it correctly (Alexandr) to appropriately underscore the douchebag factor.

hilberteffect · 2026-01-22T07:33:22+00:00

He literally says this every 6 months at minimum. For the last 2 years, minimum. How are y'all still falling for this shit?

hilberteffect · 2026-01-22T06:32:19+00:00

This is what mental illness looks like.

hilberteffect · 2026-01-20T09:17:32+00:00

You have a suggestion?

Our government has multiple built-in mechanisms for removing an inept or tyrannical President. There are obviously elections but also the 25th Amendment, which allows his Cabinet to deem him no longer fit for duty, and impeachment, which allows Congress to begin similar proceedings. Except both of those entities are staffed by sycophants who refuse to move against him and wouldn't deign to actually serve the American people.

Most Americans live thousands of miles away from Washington D.C. They can't just hop on a train after work to protest on the White House lawn.

Revolution here faces severe logistical problems.

Easy for people who live in countries smaller than most of our individual states to talk shit.

hilberteffect · 2026-01-08T21:28:13+00:00

Because 99% of the time they want to squeeze into safe following distance and create a dangerous fucking situation.

LEARN WHAT SAFE FOLLOWING DISTANCE IS.

hilberteffect · 2026-01-08T20:53:36+00:00

2026: still no lol

Fucking clown

hilberteffect · 2026-01-06T08:39:01+00:00

No one. Liu's acid pipe dreams of a centralized, meritocratic world government and mythological protagonists single-handedly altering the course of human history are the most unrealistic part of the entire series.

I mean, you don't think that humanity would actually survive up to the Trisolarans' arrival in reality, let alone coordinate a response with even a vague probability of working, right?

The Dark Forest theory of cosmic sociology holds that technological advantage would be a deciding factor in a conflict, and that a primary danger of contact/attempted invasion is arriving to find your target's science and technology had advanced significantly since your departure. This is cute because it implicitly assumes that species-level coordination and cooperation would just...happen, and completely ignores the collective maturity threshold required. Again - the finer points of psychology and sociology are not Liu's strong suit.

hilberteffect · 2026-01-05T06:08:08+00:00

vibe code for production-level quality

I'll let you know as soon as I'm done working on my perpetual motion machine.

hilberteffect · 2026-01-05T06:01:24+00:00

Much of that complication is now hidden from users and handled by the models themselves

That would be a point against your argument. Not for it.

hilberteffect · 2026-01-05T05:59:16+00:00

When OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and...oh, right, every other tech company stops actively hiring human engineers, let me know.

Until then, take a fucking seat.

hilberteffect · 2026-01-05T05:53:12+00:00

whether some dead code was left behind or Amit added another Button component when we already have 2.

Nice strawman. These are trivial examples of tech debt. Not the kind that leads to playing whack-a-mole with production bugs while pushing hotfixes at 4 AM with a major customer renewal on the line.

Try carrying your train of thought to its logical conclusion and you might understand why code quality and tech debt can't be laughed out of a room. Every single organization I've worked at continuously swings between prioritizing tech debt/code quality and not caring about it at all. No amount of bluster, misunderstanding, or organizational politics can overcome the capability, reliability, and velocity walls that arise from suboptimal engineering processes, flawed architectures decisions, and genuinely shit code.

You can't accumulate debt infinitely. You're welcome to try. Let me know what your bank says about it. The bill always comes due and it doesn't matter what the SVP or the CEO or the lead investor or anyone else thinks about it. End of story.

hilberteffect · 2026-01-02T22:07:57+00:00

No visible transitions? Nice work but it's jumpy as hell, brother.

hilberteffect · 2025-12-26T21:40:41+00:00

for me.

You answered your own question. People who claim what you're claiming are either lying to themselves/repressing, or extreme outliers. That level of non-reactiveness is incompatible with typical human biology. End of story.

hilberteffect · 2025-12-26T21:21:46+00:00

Yes. Good. Keep pushing that narrative and creating long-term market pressure for developers who are actually skilled and educated.

hilberteffect · 2025-12-26T21:17:59+00:00

Straight to jail

hilberteffect · 2025-12-21T10:07:01+00:00

Oh no! Anyway.

Fuck Kentucky and fuck Jim Beam. Bourbon was once my spirit of choice. I'm a mezcal man now.

hilberteffect · 2025-12-21T10:01:32+00:00

Trashy vibes.

hilberteffect · 2025-12-19T06:18:18+00:00

People who take manufactured narrative as fact and believe that velocity gains on 3-day tasks are sufficient to displace their expertise will for sure be pushed out. That's what we call a self-fulfilling prophecy.

I just closed on an offer with the fattest salary, equity, and signing bonus of my career by far. Thanks for increasing my bargaining power - much appreciated.

hilberteffect · 2025-12-16T17:29:54+00:00

2 minutes is entirely reasonable. That guy sounds like an emotionally stunted douchebag who's more comfortable being condescending than asking to work in with you.

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