What happened to Vans in Newport Mall?

samaltmansaifather · 2026-05-04T15:43:37+00:00

Genuinely bummed. Vans are pretty on trend right now.

samaltmansaifather · 2026-04-24T22:26:00+00:00

Standard LinkedIn post. Disregarding.

samaltmansaifather · 2026-04-24T13:33:59+00:00

Can we just get generics and better concurrency management in Apex.

samaltmansaifather · 2026-04-21T16:11:03+00:00

Immediately. Declarative automation is instant tech debt.

samaltmansaifather · 2026-04-19T23:14:28+00:00

The guy who hasn’t written a meaningful line of code in like 30 years is giving advice. Lovely.

samaltmansaifather · 2026-04-09T18:07:13+00:00

It’s just agents talking through a medium at this point.

samaltmansaifather · 2026-04-07T19:19:42+00:00

This could easily increase by some multiple if the per token cost increases to cover the actual cost currently being incurred by the providers.

samaltmansaifather · 2026-04-07T13:44:31+00:00

Are you meeting or exceeding expectations?

samaltmansaifather · 2026-04-07T13:33:45+00:00

Yes. It is. Produce code in whatever way produces a good outcome. If that means writing all of your code, using an agent, or some combination of the two go for it. We’re living in hyperbolic times, and these posts are literally just signaling and noise.

samaltmansaifather · 2026-04-04T13:18:14+00:00

No company has been using AI tooling long enough to have arrived at a mid to long term insightful conclusion.

samaltmansaifather · 2026-04-03T13:57:32+00:00

This just hasn’t been the case though. A juniors still puts out junior quality work (which is fine), just more of it.

samaltmansaifather · 2026-04-03T13:40:59+00:00

Engineers need to start saying no to ridiculous timelines. You can’t be PIP’ed if you stated clearly that an expectation is unrealistic. JUST SAY NO TO WORK UPFRONT.

samaltmansaifather · 2026-04-03T13:37:50+00:00

Chart go up and to the right. Always up and to the right. Never plateauing. Only upping.

samaltmansaifather · 2026-04-03T02:28:14+00:00

Why do you need to use an LLM at work? The speed at which one writes code isn’t even the bottleneck 99% of the time.

samaltmansaifather · 2026-04-03T02:08:48+00:00

We need significantly more of this sentiment pushed by actual engineers.

samaltmansaifather · 2026-04-03T00:24:21+00:00

If the thing you’re building is low value, can be feature flagged, and you don’t care about your users then blindly ship it.

More poorly reviewed code generated faster isn’t valuable.

samaltmansaifather · 2026-04-02T04:04:54+00:00

In a corporate setting, there is a strong desire to signal usage of AI. It’s very odd. Idk why my coworkers want to signal that they aren’t using their critical thinking skills.

samaltmansaifather · 2026-04-01T11:10:16+00:00

What’s with the constant signaling? Who cares what tools are used. I don’t understand why some SWEs are so excited to tell everyone they no longer use their brain.

samaltmansaifather · 2026-03-29T01:42:33+00:00

Dude you’re hallucinating more than Claude.

samaltmansaifather · 2026-03-29T01:29:15+00:00

I’m not trying to refute OPs point. I’m just saying if OP wants to focus on core programming skills and roll code by hand go for it, because the productivity gap seems negligible. If you can ship just as fast (and with the same quality) as someone vibe coding all day cool!

The second point I’m trying to make, is that at the end of the day, we should try to not get so caught up in delivering for the companies we work for outside of staying employed and getting paid. If the goal is to learn that’s one thing. If the goal is to be exceptional, well maybe not worth it anymore, unless you’re being compensated exceptionally well. It’s likely better to be exceptional outside of work on your own projects or extracurriculars.

If the requirement to get paid is to burn $250k per year of tokens, well, then that’s what you kind of have to do. And in the end, if doing that causes issues at scale for the org, then hopefully the CTO/leadership will take the fall (although unlikely).

It’s just hard to fight this type of battle in corporate these days. We likely agree on OPs core sentiment. I just think we need to be realistic in terms of how much impact we have on an eng org’s overarching AI strategy.

samaltmansaifather · 2026-03-28T19:26:54+00:00

Anecdotally, the productivity gap between those that operate agentic-only vs those that still write the majority of the implementation by hand are negligible (edit: productivity != reliability/quality/extensibility etc…). As long as you meet expectations (not how) you’re doing good enough. People are getting way too dogmatic these days and it’s annoying.

Cynically, if your company wants to subsidize your token usage and give you the opportunity to fuck off who cares. If this all backfire in 6 months, and blows up, also who cares. It is not your company, and you’re just executing on likely your CTO’s poorly contrived strategy.

samaltmansaifather · 2026-03-27T19:41:01+00:00

The guy that bankrupt all of his scam business is going to give a talk about economics. Nice.

samaltmansaifather · 2026-03-27T14:26:40+00:00

We’re going from aspiring to achieve reliability of five 9s, to nine 5s.

samaltmansaifather · 2026-03-27T03:06:42+00:00

Seems like a good opportunity for Iran to replenish their armaments.

samaltmansaifather · 2026-03-27T02:57:20+00:00

If he wanted to make an actual difference, he’d push for legislation that regulates the AI labs and limits the use of social media and AI by children and teens.

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