I'm an openly gay founder of a very successful company, who lived in the Bay Area for 9 years. This article is completely insane, and at best represents a small microcosm of the Valley.
To challenge bad AI drivers, I have to ask questions to the slopster like "explain to me what you did wrong." I don't like being vague, but if I'm too specific they just ask their AI. Inability to critically analyze and formulate their own mistakes is an instant unvouch. 👋
Makes me feel like my own dad though. I used to hate being in trouble without knowing why I was in trouble and being told "think about it and come back to me when you figure it out." But, I understand him more and more every day.
I built a Claude Code notification system that uses Warcraft III Peon voice lines.
It's probably the stupidest thing I've ever shipped. And according to everybody that has used it, it's also incredibly useful.
(sound on)
Rather than let people's unconscious biases harm the people around you, you can "get in front of the bus" and introduce people with their seniority in their title ("Lara, a senior engineer at..") or by their accomplishments ("Olu, maintainer of that popular UI lib..")
Man I haven't blogged about any tech I've been working on for ages now. I'm now at Datadog so done a bunch of APM and tracing, but also need to write up some of the Terraform stuff I worked on recently...
@joelanman @tomskitomski One of the things I still mention now when talking about projects I'm proud of working on, even 8 or 9 years later! Who knew it would end up getting so much use 😅