A driving force to leave 9-5 is I'll never have to endure a tech interview again.
The industry has gone mad.
They don't care about your experience.
I've built distributed systems that process many billions of data points a day at near 100% uptime.
Doesn't matter.
We need
David Nix
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Pro AI + Human | Anti-Hype | Father of 2 π§π§ | Next business coming soon
- My experience with Cursor. "Write this code for me." Lookin good bro! Look at all this time saved! Run it. Wait... doesn't work. Wrong in subtle ways. Spend more time debugging than if I wrote the code. Who likes debugging more than writing?
- Replying to @randomrecruiterIβve written off 2020s. Letβs hope 2030s are better.
- Replying to @dbrogdonYeah it's not an accurate simulation of how you actually work.
- Either: 1. I'm terrible at v0 2. v0 is overhyped In what universe is this good design for a user dashboard? (This is a cry for help. What am I doing wrong. I use the free version.)
- Replying to @duncsandYes! This is my preferred tech interview. And the only way I'll conduct tech interviews from now on.
- Replying to @baseLabsIncYes makes no sense. I'm historically bad at these interviews. I'm a "slow" thinker (from the book Thinking Fast and Slow)
- Software engineers wanting to be entrepreneurs think we have an advantage. I've built distributed systems that process billions of events in realtime which run at near 100% uptime. These systems are so reliable, the critical incident rate is about one per quarter. And yet, I
- πΆοΈ take If you sell boilerplate and you expose users to security vulnerabilities: You are, in fact, an imposter.
- Replying to @ogsadaUgh. Such a silly reason. IRL you'd google / chatgpt it and be on your way. We're not dictionaries of syntax.
- Replying to @johnrushxI agree with "become a maker." But data can be deceptive. All I see is the over-hiring during COVID. Would be interesting to see the baseline start in 2000 to see dot com burst and great recession.
- Replying to @MarkVillacampaDoes this mean the death of docker desktop please?
- Dry spell over! HT 3 months Should I have gotten more? Probably but this is good ROI for me. So I took the first offer. Also, wow, I am quickly becoming a fan of Spaceship. Who's the next Dan? I think it's them.





