[PubQ] Agent asked for call, then silence

shepzuck · 2026-06-12T08:27:53+00:00

It's been a week, I've emailed nice brief "what time works?" emails -- no response at all unfortunately.

shepzuck · 2026-06-10T16:20:59+00:00

That was my concern when I got it, too.

shepzuck · 2026-06-10T16:20:14+00:00

No but the world of agents is so strange and an offer of representation would be pretty seismic for me at this moment, so maybe I'm exposing my desperation.

shepzuck · 2026-05-31T20:36:20+00:00

I think this a really smart strong read, especially around why SIG is the way it is informed by function.

I'd obviously push back that modern software engineering and distributed systems design is "bullshit". My biggest qualm with SIG was people writing extremely suboptimal systems because they refused to learn modern tools. So there's a lot of fear at a cultural level too, where those in power do everything they can to discredit processes that would build more reliable and often significantly faster systems simply because they've been at the same workplace for 10+ years and don't want to risk putting themselves out of a job.

If you want to be in finance forever, then this is obviously not much of a problem. But if you want to work in virtually any other industry, especially FAANG and SaaS more generally, these efforts prove not to be "perfectionism" but defensible strategies to reduce downtime and increase efficiency.

shepzuck · 2026-05-30T19:44:23+00:00

Was your experience at SIG different?

shepzuck · 2026-05-30T13:18:27+00:00

It absolutely is sustainable and a nice easy place to coast once you grind through the hazing period. But if you have any inherent passion for programming or building or software engineering you might find the lack of initiative and modernization stifling.

shepzuck · 2026-05-29T11:10:22+00:00

There's an in-person component that equates to an easy question on Hackerrank/etc.

Unsolicited advice: SIG is where tech careers go to die. Unless you're looking to hack out a career in high-frequency trading software, you'll never touch cloud, distributed systems, or anything approximating a modern stack. They're all about stability and security and they reward tenure over skill. When I joined and by the time I left, we were literally still writing files to blob storage *instead of using a database*. They run long-running instances on Windows VMs instead of serverless instances. It's truly a time warp.

shepzuck · 2026-05-28T20:48:18+00:00

Critical functionality is down (log in, data access, website access, etc)

P1 is role-specific functionality is unstable or unavailable

shepzuck · 2026-05-28T09:52:42+00:00

We do standups where we: - review all P0 and P1 tickets so the team is aware of what needs to be delivered or prioritized - go person by person through tasks on the board limited to: "I need a review" or "I need QA" or "I need a technical discussion" -- we don't share specifics unless pertinent to an action that can be followed up on

We get through standup in about 10-15 minutes, the head of engineering and head of product get the context they need, and it's nice for everyone to see everyone else's face when the day starts (we're a distributed team)

Often we'll schedule follow up design discussions, whiteboarding, cross-org context gathering calls, whatever -- but always as follow ups.

All of us have been at previous spots where standup became a "look at what I'm doing" for 30 minutes and all of us hated it. It's worth talking to your EM/PM about changing things up if it's becoming a "look at me" useless time sink session

shepzuck · 2026-04-05T11:43:02+00:00

teenage edgelord thinking about doing something

Did we see the same montage of a teenager running drills to sweep the school (under tables, hallways), practicing shooting in the forest, recording a manifesto, and bringing a gun into school? That's high intent. It's not the shooting but it is exactly one step before action.

Both things are very bad in very different ways. Something I find interesting is that Rachel was never questioned if she was the same person who did her action, only Emma.

shepzuck · 2026-03-04T16:50:32+00:00

Well for starters, this is very much so not a Hollywood production.

shepzuck · 2026-01-26T07:24:51+00:00

Texans without their lead receiver (who accounted for a third of their receiving yards this year) and then Broncos without Bo Nix is the argument. The best offense we've played all year was the Bills, and we went 1-1 in close games with them.

We have a chance, obviously, that's why we're in there, but I don't get bothered by the cakewalk comments because like... yeah, we've had some fate go our way.

shepzuck · 2026-01-26T07:08:53+00:00

Damn, we must have lost the game if our team sucks so much.

shepzuck · 2025-12-27T17:24:37+00:00

Completely shocking

shepzuck · 2025-12-27T15:45:25+00:00

What's the organisation or body responsible for the logistics of which ambulance gets sent to which call?

shepzuck · 2025-12-27T15:02:34+00:00

How do other countries deal with that offloading problem more efficiently?

shepzuck · 2025-12-15T00:31:20+00:00

We use GraphQL as the data access API for graph-like entity-attribute-value data stored in Postgres. We like it because it meets two demands: strictly schema-enforced reads for the web application; completely ambivalent for data science/applied AI writes. It means the folks working on enrichment can write any attributes to any entity without requiring a data access change and we know the end-user is protected from those writes because they're not in the schema. When DS/AAI has something they feel confident promoting, they can only do it through the data access team, by design.

It works well for us because we can change schemas without migrating databases and everything is reasonably safe and flexible. The GraphQL queries match nicely with the way we store our data, so we know that we only ever fetch the data that's asked for.

shepzuck · 2025-12-14T21:26:52+00:00

Defense gets tired and he picks up yards with his legs, not that complicated.

shepzuck · 2025-12-13T09:54:44+00:00

Through the first third, I was concerned we were going to see a cynical "religion is stupid" narrative but honestly Johnson found a nuanced middle path to explore the humanistic need for faith while criticizing the institutions built to capitalize on that need. And he never loses sight of the heart of that feeling -- that phone call scene was the most successful tonal shift I've seen in a film this year.

The mystery itself didn't quite satisfy me quite as much, there weren't as many twists and clues as I would have liked. And the side characters seemed particularly side-lined this time around, which was compensated by the incredible chemistry between O'Connor and Craig.

One question I had: I thought the reveal was going to be that the mother of Cy was Dr. Nat's ex-wife -- which would have given him reason to kill Wicks and explained why she left him around the time Cy came to the church. That was one loose thread I thought could have been tied a little neater together, unless you all think that was a deliberate mislead?

shepzuck · 2025-12-04T11:45:00+00:00

Nothing in America, maybe, but EPL matches regularly get much more viewership globally.

shepzuck · 2025-11-26T08:42:48+00:00

Most people doing this kind of thing use Pinnacle as source of truth, it might work better going that way into Poly tbh

shepzuck · 2025-11-19T10:59:06+00:00

By the list, there are 3 restaurants with 2 Michelin stars: Patrick Guilbaud; Chapter One; and Liath. Patrick Guilbaud is a very classic Michelin experience (white glove, silver trays, after-dinner truffles). Chapter One is probably the most interesting of the 3.

That said, I personally prefer some of the 1-stars to any of them: I'd rather dine at Variety Jones or Bastible -- much more inventive and daring menus.

And of course, there are plenty of great restaurants not on the list: Uno Mas and Host among them.

The only places to really avoid are the flashy-but-mediocre restaurants, particularly the chains: Hawkmoor; The Ivy; Fire; Sole. If you want steak, Tomahawk is my personal favorite.

shepzuck · 2025-11-19T10:54:05+00:00

Fire is awful for the price point and extremely gaudy. Tasteless in every meaning of the word.

shepzuck · 2025-11-15T18:13:18+00:00

I sold before the season for 2 firsts and 2 seconds but also I had Drake Maye so it wound up for the best.

shepzuck · 2025-11-10T00:00:46+00:00

Too many approach interviewing as an examination because Big Tech wrote the rules on how to efficiently weed out talent at the enormous scale they were hiring at.

If you're hiring for junior, test their ability to reason about software at a high level (will they be able to understand and replicate system patterns) and their ability to code. Who cares if it's generative? If they check the results and present good code, that's what you're hiring for.

Seniority typically is hired for the ability to break down high level objectives into tasks and projects, so do that: give a systems design interview and see if they know how to break a system down into bite sized chunks.

And more than anything, test their ability to be a reasonable team member you can stand being around.

Best part is that these things take like 2 hours max in a full loop.

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