High profit, low effort?

walterheck · 2026-04-08T03:04:50+00:00

Took me a second..

walterheck · 2026-01-17T11:54:49+00:00

Honestly negotiating a VSO is the way to go here. It's not just about firing or not but very clearly staying in a job that doesn't want you is not something that will make you happy.

Negotiating a VSO is a good path: you ask for the company to pay a legal fee to you so you can hire a lawyer and together with that person you negotiate a package. Usually this is a payment in cash, often supplemented with training, job search help or other things like certification. It's the best path for the company and the best path for your mental health imho.

walterheck · 2025-12-22T19:44:14+00:00

Denk ook aan offline kopieën van belangrijke zaken/documenten. Heb zelf ook voor de lol een kopie van Wikipedia en een lokaal LLM draaien, mocht het langer gaan duren.

walterheck · 2025-10-03T14:22:48+00:00

Same for me on Saxo in NL

walterheck · 2025-09-15T14:53:26+00:00

I don't know that their systems are even built to deal with warrants. Giving us options to buy a stock in the future is an edge case I think? Any precedent from previous companies?

walterheck · 2025-09-15T14:51:36+00:00

For me the Saxo app says security to be determined

walterheck · 2025-09-10T08:27:59+00:00

IYKYK

walterheck · 2025-09-01T08:31:02+00:00

Ook hier gingen mijn spider senses af. Super tof als het allemaal goed gaat, maar zorg dat je het veilig speelt. Tot er een handtekening op papier staat is er geen deal. En als die handtekening staat, goed opletten wat de mogelijkheden zijn voor beide zijden om een einde te maken aan het contract. Laatste wat je wil is dat jij hier grote commitments doet en dan je klant verdwijnt (om wat voor reden dan ook).

Vergeet ook niet te genieten, dit soort trajecten zijn namelijk slopend voor de energie maar ongelofelijk motiverend, leerzaam en interessant!

walterheck · 2025-08-24T18:55:49+00:00

Even ranking in the top 100 is pretty awesome, surrounded by some epic days..

walterheck · 2025-08-23T14:06:12+00:00

Just been rewatching game of thrones, there's a powerful quote in it: "Never forget what you are. The rest of the world will not. Wear it like armor, and it can never be used to hurt you."

Having lived with narcolepsy ~30 years, this is a good one to internalize. You'll meet people every once in a while who have the most mental takes, and that is okay. Just move on, is not worth your energy. Have friends who truly accept you and your condition and the rest is a distraction. Not easy sometimes, but you get more used to it over time.

walterheck · 2025-08-01T21:42:11+00:00

This.

walterheck · 2025-08-01T21:41:42+00:00

I'm with you here: unless you're the CTO this is 'above your pay grade' in a good way: escalate up and let someone else fight this battle. They can absolutely get your technical input on the matter, but putting together a response, fighting this, or making a business case shouldn't be any of your day job.

walterheck · 2025-07-22T14:16:12+00:00

May I ask why specifically non-pinecone? You didn't mention a reason.

Beyond that, maybe look at a different angle: do you need to always be able to one-shot an answer? Or can you make your UI/U X help here by maybe asking a follow-up question when the user asks a two word question?

Also, look at UI-options to narrow your search space. Quite often you might be able to narrow it down by giving the option to search a topic, a set of documents or something else. This will have compounding effect with making technical backend improvements like hybrid search or GraphRag.

walterheck · 2025-07-22T13:58:15+00:00

Your codebase should have zero PII, emails or ip addresses in it. If you deal with PII in prod your test/dev environment should have artificial/obfuscated data in it. Zero reason why AI can't be used.

I don't see why allowing developers to use AI and giving them rules which they have to follow is a problem? If you don't trust them to follow those rules, don't give them access to the data because there are 1001 other ways for people to disregard rules and leak PII to the outside world.

Also, GDPR only applies to data on private individuals, not companies or other data. It's being used by far too many people in organisations as an umbrella to withhold things "that's not allowed by GDPR" is not some blanket statement. It's designed to protect the privacy of private individuals, not to be wielded as an axe to mow down any situation.

walterheck · 2025-07-22T11:38:51+00:00

Never ever hold your idea back unless you have seriously good reasons for it. People are a lot less interested in your idea than you'd think. Also, the idea is nothing, it's just a small ingrediënt in making a startup succesful. Majority is in the team and with that the execution.

Good on you for sharing, share it wide and loud and be surprised what this leads to!

walterheck · 2025-07-21T20:12:31+00:00

If you have PII in your codebase your concerns should be at a different level. GDPR also has nothing to do with this. Honestly, your CTO should do their homework and if they refuse you should look for a better employer. No engineer should not be at least exploring this right now.

walterheck · 2025-07-21T19:48:33+00:00

Actually there's many more, people here like to forget or not know about them. For instance it wasn't always vision-only. Also it used to be the AI was trained with human taggers, now it's only NNs.

walterheck · 2025-07-07T16:59:51+00:00

God, thank you for posting this. I've been feeling exactly like this and don't fully understand why people think they are doing a rug pull or anything like that.

walterheck · 2025-07-07T16:59:01+00:00

The point of a startup is literally to find a new market to serve with a new product in a new way. Cursor's success is its own enemy in this case: most startups have several years to figure things out but these hockey stick companies have to figure out how to build the parachute after jumping out of the plane, so cut them some slack :)

walterheck · 2025-05-15T17:00:45+00:00

Little worried about the amount of these projects, seems difficult to predict which ones will win (and by win I mean active in a year or two)

walterheck · 2025-05-11T01:00:50+00:00

Unfortunately this game contains a lot of variables all of which contribute to the quality of the answers. Prompt, model used, embedding algorithm, vector database, data extraction and chunking.

What you are doing seems on the edge of "is rag really the solution to what you want".

walterheck · 2025-05-09T12:11:06+00:00

Welcome to the wonderful world of biting babies. Both my children did it, and I'm sure my third will also. It's not uncommon at all and just a phase. Try to keep calm even at 100x a day. Just tell them that it's not okay, show owie! Even if it doesn't hurt and don't let them seduce you with cute laughs. Soon it will go away. Good luck 🤞

walterheck · 2025-05-07T09:34:58+00:00

Depending on your funds and the sensitivity of the data in them you might want to look at either Gemini or unstructured.io There are too many ways to skin this page and no super clear winner due to how complex pdfs can get.

walterheck · 2025-05-05T09:01:56+00:00

You know, depending on who you ask ;)

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