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Hiring a sysadmin at @synteq (cloud + GPU infrastructure). Greater Chicago or Austin area.
Requirements:
- Deploy HVs, remote and on-site
- Have opinions on cable management
- 10 years of experience with Claude Code
DM me or @benchaupt. Tag someone you’d trust with prod.
Eric Yingling retweeted
shocked by how many people are selling $50M B300 clusters with zero space or power lined up
this isn’t the same as Nebius or CoreWeave signing a deal and using the prepay to place their order with Nvidia
I’m talking about people with zero experience in the industry - real estate guys, convenience store owners, crypto bros - signing 128 node B300 clusters and then racing to figure out how they’re going to deploy them
if everything goes according to plan, they’ll figure it out at the last minute. the networking gear gets delivered on time, the nodes go online, and everyone is happy
but it’s getting weird out there. every week there’s a new bottleneck in the supply chain putting any RFS date at risk, and people are underwriting large clusters that vastly exceed the cash on their balance sheet
one of the best buying opportunities for GPUs in the next 12 months is going to come from companies that defaulted on their loans or went bankrupt flying too close to the sun
Eric Yingling retweeted
Every GOP strategist, consultant, and candidate should be forced to participate in a role-playing exercise this morning.
Your name is Bob. You’re a 49-year-old blue-collar worker in Ohio. You’ve always struggled to make ends meet. The good jobs were all shipped to China and the few remaining pay a pittance wage, undercut by endless illegal labor.
You’re a 3x Trump voter because you believed he would finally make America great again.
You put your son through Ohio State. He graduated cum laude in computer science. You couldn’t have been prouder. After months searching, he landed an entry-level job at Microsoft. Beneath his qualifications, but a good start for a smart kid.
Then he got laid off. That same month, Microsoft applied for 150,000 more H-1B visas because it can’t find qualified Americans.
Your son has spent six months back in his childhood bedroom, sending hundreds of applications without landing an interview.
On TV, Trump boasts about the greatest economy in history and how many women and minorities are finding jobs.
You decide a father-son steak night might cheer him up.
Gas is $4.50 a gallon. Filling your truck costs over $100. At Kroger, ribeyes are $30/lb. You settle for hamburger, even though 70/30 ground beef still costs $10+.
At checkout, a fat black woman is screaming at the cashier because her EBT will only cover most of the filet mignon and lobster in her cart.
You think to yourself how the Iran war has made everything expensive, but at least we’re stopping their nuclear bomb. You weren’t even sure where Iran was before you googled it after we first bombed them in March.
After dinner, you take your son to the county fair. Half the people aren’t speaking English. Virtually none of the crowd looks like you. You’re forced to leave early after a “teen takeover” turns violent. A foreign born judge pledges none of them will go to jail.
Back home, you turn on the TV. Vivek Ramaswamy is lecturing the crowd about American mediocrity and why Ohio needs more foreign talent.
Your son grows upset. You change the channel.
Now a Republican surrogate, the daughter of a governor or wife of an elderly billionaire, explains that young White men are the REAL welfare queens. They’d rather play videogames in their parents’ basements than work.
Your son says nothing. He just goes back to his childhood bedroom. You turn off the TV.
Then your neighbor starts blasting reggaeton and cracking open Modelos. He brought his cousin’s family from Mexico to help with all the minority-business contracts his construction firm keeps winning. Tonight they’re celebrating his nephew’s birth, the family’s first birthright American citizen.
You sit alone in your living room.
You worked hard, paid taxes, obeyed the law, and raised your son to do everything right. You voted Republican again and again because you believed somebody in Washington would finally fight for you.
Instead, your wages are stagnant. Groceries are unaffordable. Your community is unrecognizable. Your country is fighting another foreign war.
And upstairs, the son you sacrificed everything for is lying awake in the bedroom he slept in at twelve, wondering what the heck he’s even supposed to do with his life now.
Every time you turn on the TV, the Republicans you elected are either congratulating themselves or explaining why you and your son are the problem.
For ten years, they told you America’s future depended on your vote. Now you aren’t even sure America has a future worth defending.
The Republican Party needs to answer one simple question this morning:
You’ve spent a decade demanding Bob’s loyalty. You’ve given him stagnant wages, unaffordable groceries, another foreign war, and a son who did everything right but can’t find work.
And when they complain, you call them lazy, entitled, and racist.
What possible reason have you given Bob and his son to vote Republican? Do you honestly think you deserve their vote?
Eric Yingling retweeted
PSA: if the job description says on-site SF and not on-site/remote or hybrid, and you still don't want to move, please don’t send the message asking if it's possible to make an exception for you. Especially when I'm hearing from you for the first time.
I moved my family from Croatia to SF to build this company and there are people asking if they can fly in from Paris twice a year and make it work.
I'm sure remote/hybrid works very well for some of the most well-established companies out there, but most of us do well by coming to work together in one place. Totally fine if that's not for you but don't make absurd requests and waste either of our time.
Don't use @Vestwell for your 401(k).
Since August they've:
- missed employee + employer contributions on two payrolls
- left us on "IT is investigating" for a month until my team got fed up and found a different solution ourselves
- swapped most of our Vanguard funds for target-date mush and force-rebalanced everyone
- double-withdrew all employee's paycheck contribution in the same pay period
- stopped answering: promised fixes never came, 5+ hours on hold, nobody around, lying about "guaranteed we will respond before monday!"
Today, after another hour on hold, they said they're "working with Rippling's engineering team." That was the first Rippling says they've heard of it (they've been very responsive the whole time, no issues).
This is people's retirement money. @AaronSchumm, your bio says "trying to fix a problem." We have a few.
spoke to an insider. old Marine buddy, OGA spook now. told me to stop asking questions and start preparing ASAP. 96 hours minimum.
I asked 96 hours of what. he said "storage." I have since purchased 34PB of hard drives.
🤖 Made with AI
Eric Yingling retweeted
As someone who has personally spent $500k / mo+ on Google Ads for years, I can tell you with certainty:
This revenue growth in Search is artificial & extremely unhealthy for Google’s business long term
Search volumes are declining as legacy search is being increasingly cannibalized by non-monetized LLM queries
Google’s response?
Manufacture revenue growth via short-sighted, highly extractive, customer-hostile tactics. I.e. charge advertisers more for lower quality clicks, including clicks they do not want and explicitly did not approve Google to charge them for
A few examples to illustrate:
For all of its history until recently, Google operated on a 2nd price auction model
I.e. if you bid $5 CPC and the next highest bidder bids $1 CPC, Google charged you $1.01 for the click (one penny more than the 2nd highest bidder) rather than the $5 you bid
This was a genius move by Google early on as it incentivizes advertisers to input their true maximum willingness to pay rather than trying to play the game of bidding low and constantly adjusting to try to stay just ahead of the next highest bidder while still not paying too much
However recently, Google silently deprecated the 2nd price auction and began charging advertisers as much as their bid and budget caps allow, regardless of what anyone else is bidding
It’s a short-sighted cash grab at the expense of the long term health of the advertiser ecosystem
Making thing worse, Google also recently nerfed keyword targeting precision
Google previously had precise keyword targeting settings that allowed advertisers pick individual search phrases to bid on, defined down to the character w/ exact match or phrase match targeting
This was one of the core features that made search advertising magic, enabling advertisers to run extremely precise campaigns based on exactly what their target customer typed
But now, even if you bid on a specific term or phrase using the strictest exact
-match targeting settings, Google will show your ad across 1000’s of unrelated keywords, labeling them as as “exact match (close variant)”
The definition of “close variant” means whatever they want it to and changes constantly. The result is advertisers get billed for clicks that are totally irrelevant to their business and that their targeting settings explicitly forbid Google from targeting. Google does it anyway and there’s no ability to turn this off
So now exact match is broad match, and broad match is just meaningless spam
This is all very bad for advertisers, but for Google, it allows them to show your ad and bill you for clicks across 1000x more searches that were previously going unmonetized (mainly because they’re garbage queries no one wants)
This is how you grow revenue atop declining search volumes
Lastly, and perhaps most egregiously, Google quietly stopped respecting budget caps by a factor of 2x. For example campaigns we’ve been running for years with $1000 daily budget caps suddenly began spending $2000+ per day
And the extra spend is entirely on the garbage keywords Google arbitrarily throws in as “exact match (close variants)” which have no value to our business, but can’t be turned off
Google offers no refunds nor any recourse for overspend or spend on keywords you explicitly did not target
These are not the actions of a healthy business. These are the actions of company whose core business is in decline but desperately needs to pump quarterly earnings so Wall Street will continue to fund insane capex while hopefully looking through their rapidly deteriorating negative free cash flow
Google operated a benevolent monopoly for the better part of 25 yrs
Meaning the value Google captured from Search was but a small fraction of the value it created, and that spread produced a potential energy that justified expectations of high earnings growth far, far into the future
This is now no longer the case
At the alter of AI capex, Google is sacrificing the golden goose
Q2 was an amazing quarter, with our AI investments redefining what’s possible across every part of our business.
Alphabet revenue grew 24% YoY and Google Cloud accelerated to 82% growth. We saw exciting momentum across the board from Search to YouTube to the Gemini app (which reached 950M monthly active users). Our model APIs are processing 22B tokens/min (up from 16B+ last quarter) driven by our workhorse Flash models. We’re also seeing great adoption of Gemini Enterprise, used by 90% of the Fortune 100, as well as strong demand for our security solutions.
Outstanding results and momentum, and such an exciting moment—thanks to all of our partners and employees around the world! 🙌 About to hop on the call!
waiting for my kid to turn around so I can take the king size Snickers out of their trick or treat bag
Eric Yingling retweeted
I’ve now gotten over 250 pull requests from developers trying to write the fastest possible API for a $12/month server (1vCPU 2G RAM).
By popular demand, I built an official leaderboard for it: benchmarks.arjaythedev.com/
Every submission runs is tested via the following method:
→ Built from source on the exact same 1 vCPU box
→ Has to pass the full test suite before any load
→ Ramped up with realistic users until it breaks
→ Scored on the most users it holds for 5 minutes (p95 under 500 ms, p99 under 1 s, under 1% errors)
The current top 3 on the $12 server:
→ Rust (io_uring): 264,000 users
→ C++ (io_uring + EASTL): 219,000 users
→ Hand-written x86-64 assembly: 171,000 users
The range is pretty nuts. The same 1 vCPU box goes from 3,500 users (Bash) all the way to 264,000 (Rust), across 25 languages so far.
The community involvement on this has been incredible. People have written their own event loops, used io_uring directly, and pushed languages I never expected to see on a server leaderboard. I’m really glad so many of you jumped in.
Every implementation is open source, so you can read exactly how each one works, see how your favorite language stacks up, and send in your own. New submissions get benchmarked and added to the leaderboard automatically.
Eric Yingling retweeted
I told my QA engineer the checkout failure wasn’t a bug.
He stared at me.
I said, “It’s a known limitation of the current architecture.”
Silence.
Then: “What does that mean?”
I looked at the open laptop full of red Sentry alerts.
It means we have a technical debt registry.
It’s a Notion page with 83 unchecked boxes, color-coded by vibes.
Someone made it during a hack week in 2023.
Nobody has opened it since.
Including me.
I told them, “We’re optimizing for long-term velocity, not short-term correctness.”
They asked how I decide which failures are worth fixing.
I locked eyes with them across the table and said, “You’ll just know.”
They looked puzzled.
I, however, understood.
This is how modern engineering works.
There is no severity matrix.
There is only pattern recognition.
And the pattern is usually something a Staff Engineer said on a podcast while holding a Yeti mug.
Two sprints later another report came in.
Clear reproduction steps.
Video of the failure.
Impacted revenue numbers attached.
I asked about the root cause.
They said, “Race condition in the payment service under load.”
I knew right away it wasn’t the right kind of problem.
Not ambitious enough.
I told them we were only interested in failures that reveal deep systemic truth about distributed systems at planetary scale.
They asked how many of those we’d actually shipped fixes for this year.
I gave a small, knowing smile.
“We’re compounding.”
They asked what that meant.
I said, “If you have to ask, you’re not ready.”
That night I posted on LinkedIn.
“Great teams don’t chase green builds. They design systems that make entire classes of bugs impossible.”
11,400 impressions.
Three VCs slid into my DMs.
All of them wanted to talk about “agentic reliability layers.”
I marked one of the new tickets as “Won’t Fix.”
I still don’t fully understand what the feature does.
But the PR description said “eventually consistent multi-region consensus” five times.
And something about it felt exceptional.
Eric Yingling retweeted
Incredibly proud of this launch.
Developers can now push source code > deployment in one command on @synteq Cloud, with Firecracker isolation and first class secrets.
Python on a $4.20 @synteq VPS beat Bun on a $12 @digitalocean droplet 😮
@arjaythedev project, same code:
Bun: 47k → 90k
FastAPI: 22k → 48k
1/3 the price. 2x the users. HA included as default.
youtube.com/watch?v=-BFt49ul…
helped build my buddy's painting company an updated website and deployed it by dropping a folder. still insane to me how much easier this makes the whole process compared to before, so little friction.
@MattKuda shows how it actually works in fantastic detail.