backward deployed engineer

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Joined July 2019
Damn I still think about this tweet every day
Doing the right thing is important, even if you get penalized for it.
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i've been converted
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claude can manage my model deployment now, i guess it's time to $ANT export FIRECTL_AGENT_SAFE_ACCOUNTS=iykyk @FireworksAI_HQ
the sooner you give your db to agents, the sooner you feel the productivity gain once again
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someone should use ai to modernize all the printers
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first car accident today, got rear ended in a 3-car pileup :( bay area traffic on a dark fall evening is 0/10, not recommended
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you have a long and difficult journey ahead of you
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company rename is the most interesting part in yc feed
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I have pinged a bunch of people so far, most of them will not join, some of them will post my invitation in two years
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i am somewhat a hiring expert now, every hiring convo i feel i'm getting better
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wrote my first angel check yesterday - a rising third year undergrad pinged me in 2024 - i took the call and gave some career advice - he graduated and became a YC founder - i invested connecting the dots is the best feeling ever
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"Sent via Superhuman" is the silliest email signature
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apparently google photos cannot find my cats anymore 馃樋馃樋 @googlephotos
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hiring backward deployed engineer
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love how the setup prompt just includes the api key 馃し
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hard to find engineers that actually cares about the product in big tech find out if they ever read user feedback and feel bad about negative ones
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grok, zcode, trae, are secretly (blatantly?) uploading users' codebase to their cloud meanwhile i choose to pace the frontier, and spend time learning k8s, postgresql, and how to deploy our system securely to customer's VPC :)
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i have a corp macbook from our customer, it uses the microsoft suite. every time it reboots, god it reminds me of the windows machine from childhood, so annoying
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codex code review too slow to use, i.e. takes more than 10 minutes
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doing heart surgery level migration with agents, so fun
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my entire job is now a few threads. if one gets deleted i lose a limb
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- ask agent to do tedious work -> i'm the orchestrator now - create orchestration harness -> i do higher-level tasks - (harness absorbed into base model -> deprecate harness) - create new harness for the higher-level tasks -> i find even higher-level things to do - (model absorbs that one too) ... - the model finds things for me to do
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