Jonathan Emig

Software Engineer | ex-YC | ex-A16Z | Head of Engineering @ SCALIS

[Jonathan Emig @jonathan_emig]

@dillon_mulroy Not possible with all the open source models we have but I like the thought

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Fable 5 is so smart

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@zekramu true. their moat seems to be the difficulty of switching as opposed to product quality. will definitely keep that in mind as we build the migration workflow

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@zekramu I don't like Workday. That's what we're hearing from a lot of recruiters as well.

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@zekramu it's hard to point to one thing that is bringing us success because it's a lot of little decisions that add up. biggest thing may be that we combine both the ATS and job board into a single platform. allows us to have a feedback loop with in house data

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@asishcodes GPT will write things that almost make sense but don't - Opus always seems grounded

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what would make hiring better?

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@ryanbrewer probably last week. but a couple months ago i thought about making heath insurance cheaper by building it on the Internet Computer Protocol. a large percentage of insurance premiums go to company profit. you could cut that out with a decentralized platform

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you are your brain. therefore you do not control your thoughts. there would have to be something outside of your brain you consider “you” to control your thoughts

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not everything should be a microservice

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what does overengineering mean to you?

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why does hiring still suck this bad?

that question turned into SCALIS.

here’s the founder story behind what we’re building. 👇🪜

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@PratikSinhatwt Cloudflare

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@trashh_dev boooo

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@Bitcoin_Teddy He’s wrong a lot

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@elonmusk K

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@bctrooke @ThePrimeagen @tszzl No. But, if you had no other data to look at it would be better than nothing. I don’t think it should be that controversial. I’m not advocating for companies firing or hiring based solely on this metric.

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health insurance is expensive. a big part of that is going toward health insurance margins and admin costs. someone needs to build a decentralized health insurance platform on the Internet Computer Protocol @dominic_w

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@ThePrimeagen @tszzl If a developer does nothing that's 0 lines of code. If they ship something that's some code. Sure generally better code is written in fewer lines, but on a long time horizon it's not a bad metric. You just have to review the code to see if it's slop.