Linus Torvalds created Linux at 21 without Claude or any other AI.
- He didn't have a co-founder.
- No VC funding. No office.
- No team.
- Just a personal project
he posted to a mailing list:
"I'm doing a free OS."
33 years later,
it runs 97% of the world's servers, all smartphones, and the International Space Station.
The most important software in history started as someone's side project.
Absolute legend.
Si el 95% de tus ingresos procede del municipio sí eres un burócrata (dato dado por el representante de los artistas). Eso no ocurre con ninguna otra industria.
Y sí, los artistas tienen derecho a cobrar por su trabajo… lo que libremente le quieran pagar los espectadores, no lo que acuerden con los políticos los gestores culturales del dinero de los impuestos de los demás, de los que van, y de todos los que no van a sus conciertos.
Ha salido Claude Sonnet 4.6, y después de probarlo durante un par de días, NO sirve para planificar código.
Pero sí que va muy bien para implementar.
Por ello hemos hecho un post rápido contando cómo usar Opus para planificar y Sonnet para implementar en Claude Code para ahorrar tokens. https://t.co/1zuampvGxT
I need everyone to understand we can't speak of any "regime-change" in Venezuela 🇻🇪 at all as long as the Diosdado, Delcy and Padrino remain.
Maduro was only one part of the power structure, the figurehead. The real power was always with these henchmen operating from the shadows
Claro que rechazamos el ataque de Maduro, su régimen y aliados contra la nación venezolana, los miles de muertos y millones de exiliados que ha provocado.
Por eso hoy celebramos y aplaudimos el fin del dictador y de vuestra nefasta ideología criminal.
A Staff Engineer isn’t an “extra strong Senior.” It’s a fundamentally different job.
At the Staff level, your primary output is decision quality, not code velocity. If the company only needed more throughput, they’d scale headcount or buy tools. They bring in Staff Engineers when the cost of a bad decision exceeds the cost of an extra hire.
On paper, a team with multiple Staff Engineers looks inefficient. In practice, that leverage is what prevents the organization from collapsing under its own complexity. As systems grow, the biggest risk is no longer “can we build this?” but “are we building the right thing, the right way, at the right time?”
A Staff Engineer’s real work starts when things are unclear:
– Requirements are fuzzy
– Trade-offs are uncomfortable
– Deadlines conflict with correctness
– Short-term wins threaten long-term health
Your job is to slow the team down just enough to ask the questions others don’t have time—or permission—to ask.
Where many new Staff Engineers go wrong is mistaking authority for impact. Complaining about legacy systems, proposing rewrites, or benchmarking against famous companies is easy. It feels productive. But without deep context, it’s just noise. Most legacy exists because it once solved a real problem under real constraints.
A good Staff Engineer does the opposite: They learn why the system is the way it is. They understand the business pressures shaping technical decisions. They identify which constraints are real—and which ones can be challenged.
The most valuable thing you do is not writing elegant code. It’s preventing irreversible mistakes:
– Choosing the wrong abstraction too early
– Over-engineering before scale exists
– Under-engineering systems that must scale
– Creating coupling that blocks future product moves
You guide product and engineering leadership through trade-offs they don’t have the technical depth to fully see. You translate long-term technical risk into business language. You help the team avoid decisions that feel good this quarter but cripple the roadmap next year.
Senior Engineers ship features. Staff Engineers protect the system and the business that depends on it.
If you measure your impact by commits or tickets closed, you’ll miss the point. If nothing explodes on your watch, that’s usually success.
EL ULTIMO BAILE! Ultimo UFC del año con el tridente 🔱, en la última transmisión de UFC en la era ESPN. Gracias a todos por acompañarnos en tantas noches inolvidables… LO MEJOR ESTÁ POR VENIR! 💪🏻🤗 #UFCVegas112@ESPNKnockOut
Empatía para cambiar al mundo!
La multitud se quedó en silencio para que una estudiante ciega pudiera escuchar el sonido del tablero y ejecutar su tiro libre…
Microsoft @Windows: "We're preloading File Explorer so it launches faster."
File Pilot: Compiles in less than 3 seconds. Launches instantly. Eats whole drive for breakfast.
Speed isn't a background task, it's design.
https://t.co/v4OY47UD4h
Solo para decirles, que Marruecos tenía una generación dorada desmejorada por su DT, lo sacaron 3 meses antes del Mundial y Regragui terminó siendo semifinalista de Qatar 2022. Ahí les dejo el dato. 😉🇪🇨❤️
Hay un temor que va en aumento en Ecuador: que el Mundial nos dure poquito por todas las decisiones de Becacccece.
El se irá, pero nosotros nos lamentaremos porque no se aprovechó una buena generación.
Reacción completa 🇲🇽 🇪🇨 en mi canal de YouTube: https://t.co/cK6m07QYNq
Los indígenas tienen muchas necesidades urgentes y prioritarias pero ninguno de los tres paros 2019 2022 y 2025 tuvo relación con ellas. En los tres casos se han priorizado los intereses de la dirigencia y los cálculos políticos de organizaciones populistas.