sandeep

Under height for my weight

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

yes, asian and african rivers produce 95% of ocean plastic but nobody asks where the plastic comes from.

plastic recycling is a scam. always has been.
the industry knew since 1974 it “cant be justified economically”

they funded the recycling campaigns anyway because the alternative was banning plastic.

only 5-6% of US plastic actually gets recycled and europe isnt better.
the EU exports 1.1 million tonnes of plastic waste per year, 3 million kg leaving every single day.
31% goes to turkey, 16% to malaysia, 13% to indonesia, all labeled “recyclable”

most plastics cant even be recycled to begin with (thousands of types, different chemical properties). and for the few that can, the output is lower quality and more toxic than virgin plastic.
you literally degrade the material each cycle until its worthless.

so what happens to the other 95%?
western countries ship it to southeast asia and africa under the label “recycling exports” with the receiving countries promising to recycle it in their stead for a price, but those countries dont have facilities either. so they burn it or dump it in rivers.

every 20 minutes, a 10-tonne truckload of plastic enters the ocean in indonesia alone.
it may look like indonesians pollute more but that’s because we ship them our garbage and they have no infrastructure to handle it.

china used to absorb it all. when they banned imports in 2018, the west just redirected to countries with weaker regulations. malaysia, vietnam, philippines. the map below shows the result.

you sort your trash so you feel like youre helping, the plastic goes on a boat, gets burned in a village without emissions controls, poisons their air and water, flows into their rivers, enters the ocean, and in your food and water.
you feel good about the plastic you recycled and never think about it again but you end up eating it anyway.

then we ban straws and plastic bags and call it environmentalism

[Vivian @suchnerve]

oh you’re “brutally honest” but are you ever honest about the good stuff? do you compliment people’s positive traits and behaviors? or do you only open your mouth or fix your fingers to be “honest” when you’ve got something negative on your mind

[sandeep @EdgingFellow]

@gauravsabnis lol ok cool cool

[sandeep @EdgingFellow]

@ashwinravi99 Rest of the world is safe from Haydos!

[dharmesh @dharmesh]

"Why should companies pay for SaaS (HR/CRM/ERP/etc.) when they could just vibe code them?"

I get variations of this question or comment with some regularity (granted, it's sometimes just me talking to myself).

Here are some biased (but hopefully, well-considered) thoughts:

1) I am a big proponent and user of vibe coding (what I call "agentic coding"). I do it every day, 7 days a week, including Sundays. It's amazing.

2) My company, HubSpot is a software company. We have hundreds of professional engineers -- just about all of them use AI for product development too. They are brilliant and know how to build production-grade products.

3) Even with this powerful army of talent, the number of internal, core SaaS applications that we have replaced with a vibe-coded variant is exactly ZERO. The number of applications we plan to replace is also exactly ZERO.

4) It's not the absence of talent that keeps us from rolling our own SaaS apps, it's the presence of focus. It would be silly to try and replace our HR, team collaboration, expense tracking and 100+ other SaaS apps we use when we can just buy them. Just doesn't make sense.

5) That's us -- as a software company at some scale. If you're a non-software company it makes even less sense for you. Doesn't matter how good the AI coding tools get. Let's say you *could* vibe code a replacement for that SaaS app you're using, who's going to maintain it? Who's going to keep up with industry trends? What are you going to do when the 20-something genius that vibe coded it over a weekend leaves the company? Who do you call when there's a major bug?

6) If you're a Fortune 500 company at some scale, perhaps you could pull this off for some discrete use cases and the tradeoffs are worth it. You have an IT/Engineering department that is larger than the population of some countries. You can take on the pain in return for the positives.

For the millions of others, my advice is:

Spend every calorie possible on creating value for your customers.

[sandeep @EdgingFellow]

@JeremyClarkson I’m judging you for having that as your starter word!!

[sandeep @EdgingFellow]

@vhmth Just figured out your ideologies. My bad. Enjoy the view with your head firmly buried in the sand.

[sandeep @EdgingFellow]

@schmmuck What rubbish. That is bug spray and play actually stopped for fumigation.

[sandeep @EdgingFellow]

@bgurley What if you align hard *against* a particular party?

[Nikunj Kothari @nikunj]

In today's 996 chest-thumping culture, don't forget about the quiet ones keeping your company together..

[sandeep @EdgingFellow]

@rrhoover I’ll bet company #1 has 2x the gross margin 😊

[sandeep @EdgingFellow]

@GuptaRK22 Aah…I kept wondering why he’s such a cricket fan 🤣

[sandeep @EdgingFellow]

@shl Job or monthly income?

[sandeep @EdgingFellow]

@sajithpai Who called it Fast fashion and not Tailor Swift?

[Zach Griff @_ZachGriff]

I was just scammed by a @Hyatt hotel — and what I’ve uncovered so far points to a *much* bigger issue.

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[sandeep @EdgingFellow]

@alanwilkins22 @sachin_rt Just wish they didn't immortalize the sponsor. A blood sucking fraudulent company.

[sandeep @EdgingFellow]

@banglani Sai for NKR and Boom for Washy would be my changes. 4 quicks. Prasidh improved significantly through the game and was unlucky to not have more to show!

[sandeep @EdgingFellow]

God’s plan! Yash Dayal!! Crazy redemption story.