Steve Huynh

YouTuber | Podcaster | Author

[Steve Huynh @ALEngineered]

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[Steve Huynh @ALEngineered]

The higher someone climbs in an organization, the more likely they are to be disconnected from reality. This means if you are connected to reality, you are immediately useful to them if you see something and can get a message to them.

[Steve Huynh @ALEngineered]

The people who say “just work smarter” are usually standing on years of accumulated leverage they forgot they have. It’s like saying “the best strategy for chess is to checkmate the other player.”

[Steve Huynh @ALEngineered]

Most people can’t distinguish between “this is difficult” and “I personally dislike this.” If you can trick yourself into doing things you don’t like to do, it turns out that there aren’t a lot of difficult things out there.

[Steve Huynh @ALEngineered]

Calling someone stupid in public is the lowest form of content creation.

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Most people don’t actually fear failure. They fear embarrassment and a loss of status. Turns out nobody cares about your failures because they aren’t paying attention to you.

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@cubesol_greg I'm not mocking AI coding, just the concept of being a 10x engineer. Where can I see your DJ app?

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We are nearing 6 months into the year. How are all of the 10x-100x engineers and their 5-50 years of work they created in 2026 doing?

I can't wait until I see what a century's worth of your code looks like.

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How about adding a grammar checker? Sheesh.

[Steve Huynh @ALEngineered]

LinkedIn is facing challenges with the increasing prevalence of AI-generated content. Many users feel that the introduction of certain features has negatively impacted the platform's quality. There is a strong sentiment that a different approach is needed, one that enhances meaningful interactions rather than detracts from them.

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Meta is busy making sure 2026 is the year that managers go the way of junior developers.

[Steve Huynh @ALEngineered]

One of the most frustrating things is how often people confuse sounding polished with being competent. You just know how to talk with pretty words, you don’t know how to work good.

[Steve Huynh @ALEngineered]

There’s always one person on a team who creates unnecessary urgency because chaos makes them feel important. They are spamming the urgency button because that’s the only thing they know how to do. Chill dude, you don’t always have to turn up the temperature.

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Companies say they want people with “high ownership” until someone makes a decision they disagree with. Then they want “alignment”.

[Steve Huynh @ALEngineered]

@theo SSH catching strays.

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A lot of productivity systems are just ways to manage too many things. The best system is to rip up your todo list and make progress on the most important thing today. That’s it.

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A lot of people want more ownership and scope at work but don’t want to be accountable when things go wrong. If you want to own the upside you have to also own the downside.

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@DevinRhode2 Start working first

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If you need a meeting to start the work then you’ll never really start. It’s universally better to get started and then meet to fix things and to change direction.

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@Umesh__digital To answer your question, they don’t go bankrupt because the Meta ads platform prints money.