Itay

Software Engineer @ Netflix by day | Indie hacker by night

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Quick update from me: joined the @NetflixEng Notebooks team as a Software Engineer.

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@rauchg Can you recommend a place in SF?

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Party is over 🙃 This is brutal for solo-devs.

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Typical @Microsoft behavior - trying to sign into Azure only be greeted by a different flavor of BSOD. Absolutely nothing on how to sort this out. I just gave up - back to AWS.

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Yo @GeminiApp I'm paying $250 per month for your AI Ultra subscription, and the Gemini CLI with Gemini 3.1 Pro is CONSTANTLY getting 429d. This often happes on my first request. This has been going for months -- what the hell😭

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Between working a demanding full-time job, keeping fit, and spending time with the family - the number of hours I am able to spend in front of my laptop has decreased substantially. This resulted in a slower rate of shipping than I'd like. But there is a fix --

In its early days, remote agentic coding seemed like a nice to have, but if you're trying to move fast and make progress - you can't block on synchronous laptop time - setting up a robust agent pipeline you can operate remotely is a bare necessity.

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Starting apex on @netflix 👀

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It's not enough to know understand the market and make directional bets. Execution and conviction are so important - as is distribution. I've been right many times but lacking in the areas above meant I couldn't capitalize on it.

We learn, tweak and move forward.

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Saturday night is the best night to write code. During my college years, Friday night was the best night to crush assignments. This is all a natural evolution of that pattern.

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Did Claude just give me attitude?

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@jwswj @Cursor Messaged you back. Thank you!

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Hey @Cursor is there a way for us to get BugBot to find all issues in one round? My PRs go through 5-10 rounds of back and forth with BugBot before it returns an all clear -- this is a real bottleneck. Love the product otherwise.

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@Hadley If this is your take then you don't really know the Cursor product. It's far beyond an IDE.

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One behavior pattern we need to root out on @X is vague posting - please don't do it. It's noise. It's annoying.

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@HarryStebbings Cursor and Claude Code are complements in the corporate landscape, Harry.

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Some positive vibes because we still wan to #bekind -- Opus 4.7 is a solid model. GStack is really good.

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Although it's been a few weeks, this happened:
No longer a Windows user.

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Historically, it was really difficult to find time and resources to build internal tooling for users who are involved in the product vision. LLMs have made it much more attainable now -- I'm able to build custom UIs that hook into production systems and let non-technical users meaningfully participate in the development of the product without needing to write code. I have dozens of these and the collaborators love them!

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This is your daily reminder to build more, and consume less.

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Let's write it in Rust, they said.
It's safe and stable, they said.

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Tonight I'm not building anything -- instead, I'm spending time diving deep into Tailscale internals.