Jake Pusateri

Dev @weights_biases. Opinions are my own.

[The Notorious S.E.B. @bigseb31213]

we could fix this overnight by charging farmers the market price for water, so they will no longer grow thirsty grass in the desert to send to Saudi Arabia as feed

[Roy @usr_bin_roygbiv]

Every once in a while you work at a company that only hires people who know what they're doing, and suddenly its 20 people doing the same work as 400 somewhere else. There's zero meetings, everyone talks once a week on slack, and you go huh, how much garbage is there actually.

[Jake Pusateri @jakepusateri]

@signulll That is what you get when you hire a bunch of ex-fb execs and engineers…

[Daniel @danielgothits]

America is literally being strangled to death by this

[clara the urbanist @SlopHq]

every data center story says it uses "as much power as 100,000 homes" like that's a scandal. an aluminum smelter pulls five times that and it's why airplanes are cheap. measuring industry in homes is how you train a country to believe building things is a crime

[Jake Pusateri @jakepusateri]

@duncancampbell It’s in the faq, but it’s literally just temping. It doesn’t measure the hormones at all…

[Daniel @growing_daniel]

People act like super convenient crack cocaine gambling on every smart phone is the status quo or something inevitable and it’s not. Like we can literally keep the laws we’ve had forever and ban this ultra potent society cancer

[Boring_Business @BoringBiz_]

The left is waking up to the fact that "tax all billionaires" is the new rhetoric that resonates with their base

You can see every single one of them is now latching on to this as their new policy mandate

A big reason for this is because the youth have been priced out of affordable housing and family formation

The entire premise of capitalism is at threat because we refuse to fix unaffordable housing for the sake of keeping boomers happy with their paper wealth

[Hunter📈🌈📊 @StatisticUrban]

The fundamental problem in NYC is that there is far too little housing for the number of people who want to live there.

All else is downstream. Every method of rationing - market prices, rent control, waitlists for public housing - have downsides. There is one (1) solution.

[Peter Kazanjy @Kazanjy]

I don't understand why someone doesn't just come out with a message along the lines of:

"People on rent control are stealing from people who aren't on rent control."

And

"People with older rent controlled apartments are stealing from those with newer rent controlled leases."

"Your apartment costs $4k a month because Susan down the hall is paying $1k a month. Did you want to pay Susan's rent? Because you are."

[CoachBroker @CoachBroker]

Billionaires are strange to me because if I hit $10m I’ll never be seen again, let alone work. Go relax bro.

[Jake Pusateri @jakepusateri]

@IanMitchel1 To post GraphQL hate, you must first explain colocated fragments. If you understand the raison d'etre and still dislike I will engage with your opinion.

[staysaasy @staysaasy]

Individual contributor advice for the day: once in a while, go crazy, work super hard, and break through.

Managers are heavily constrained because most of their leverage is through people, which often cannot change fast.

ICs can find breakthroughs.

You can work all weekend to get a prototype.

You can spend nights finding an insane performance optimization.

You can POC a thing that is prioritized for next year.

So much of a company is based on risk and expected timing and prioritization minutiae.

If you can cut through that and find a breakthrough it can change everything.

Well, if it’s so important to do that stuff, why isn’t it just prioritized?

Well, because it’s not. Because if you make it part of the day to day then it gets bogged down and dragged out like everything else. And a bunch of people spend time and have nothing to show for it.

But if you can be a person that breaks through, if you can take a risk on yourself that you might not breakthrough, you can make yourself and the company way, way more valuable.

[Blake Scholl 🛫 @bscholl]

@JeffBezos @elonmusk If half the people don’t pay any tax, then we have 50% of the population with votes and no stake in how government is run. And they can simply vote themselves ever greater handouts at the expense of more productive people.

This would not end well for America.

[ObtainerOfRareAntiquities @ObtainerOf]

We should pay members of Congress two million a year, Senators five. If they are found to enrich themselves in any other way aside from maybe home appreciation we execute them

[Ramez Naam @ramez]

AI data center growth is not correlated with electricity price changes.

[Habeas Corpus Linguistics @HabCorpLinguist]

And while we're at it, automate the ports and repeal the Jones Act too.

[Robotbeat🗽 ➐ @Robotbeat]

A pretty massive problem is the left isn’t calling for tech’s benefits to be shared widely. They’re asking for it to be stopped.

[Ben Dickson @bendee983]

The hard-earned skills of software engineers will never be useless, no matter how much AI coding improves.

The way an experienced SWE who has written and reviewed millions of lines of code looks at a problem is different from a person whose only exposure to software has been vibe coding and prompting LLMs.

In fact, the experienced engineer will be able to use those tools much more efficiently. They can speak in patterns, architectures, modules, and force the LLM to produce higher quality code.

And when the AI gets confused, the engineer can steer it in the right direction. The same can't be said for the 19yo who only vibe-codes without looking under the hood.