The Kit Sunde Experience

Move fast and fix things. Stack half empty kind of engineer.

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@GergelyOrosz You don’t need a status page if your services are always unstable, which has been my experience with Apples APIs.

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@DanBerger_ @AdamRackis HR aren’t experts on managing people, let alone training others on how to manage.

What you’re looking for are executive coaches, leadership programs etc. but in most places you just learn by doing mistakes along the way, and if you’re really lucky you have a mentor.

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@zeeg Just talk to be people like a normal human as part of being around people.

You don’t need a closed off weekly meeting to figure out someone you work with is interested in doing XYZ and making that happen for them.

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@zeeg I told my new team I will do it at most quarterly, but if they are about to quit they need to find me immediately.

Only tech acts like this is normal, but unless there’s some crisis systematically doing it across your whole team is a waste of company time and money.

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@GergelyOrosz @Pragmatic_Eng That’s < 5% MoM growth over the timeline? Even if the issues started when the graph started (they didn’t) it’s years of single percent MoM growth.

I really don’t get it. There’s incredibly talented people working there, this should be easy for them.

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@PawelHuryn @GergelyOrosz Yeah I was looking into what people were getting banned over to make sure no one in the company is causing a failure for all, and only really brazen everyone-would-agree cases were bans that stuck. A lot of fake positives and people having to take to twitter, but it was reversed.

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@mariorod1 Those growth graphs is just gaslighting a problem that has existed since before the AI boom. Communication like this is just disrespecting how educated your audience is.

It’s incredibly poorly managed by you personally, and should have been dealt with by you personally.

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@ashleywolf GitHub needs to actually take hard decisions that will let you catch up even when they hurt your KPIs. It has been going on for years.

If GitHub can’t keep up with growth, the solution is to stop the growth, not to accept that the existing user base should suffer for years.

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@iAmHenryMascot @GergelyOrosz That graph is corporate bullshit, their problems started before the AI pressure, and they are choosing to accept new load to the detriment of existing l customers.

People need to stop posting those graphs around as anything other than propaganda and excuses.

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@irmiller22 @GergelyOrosz Their problems started before the AI boom, they are gaslighting you.

Even if that wasn’t true they are also choosing to accept unbounded growth in their platform that is degrading their existing customers.

They aren’t victims of circumstance, they are choosing this.

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@GergelyOrosz No it’s not hard for them at this point.

They’ve had literally years to deal with this, they are choosing to accept their platform is degraded and they are repeatedly gaslighting their customers.

They’ve had the budget, the means and the time to fix it. It’s pure incompetency.

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@GergelyOrosz GitHub was breaking regularly before the AI boom, this is just a convenient disaster to use as an excuse to hide their rudderless ship and lack of leadership.

There’s also literally no reason why they should accept unbounded new load if they can’t serve existing customers.

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@GergelyOrosz I really can’t understand why people in tech keep giving GitHub a pass on outages, it has plagued them for many years even before the AI boom.

They are far too willing to do moonshot product development, and far too casual about their own stability.

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@charlieholtz Looking forward to it! I literally have a list of patches for conductor to rewrite itself after an update for the last few weeks so it remains usable.

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My entire timeline is full of tech twitter hyped over text layout mixed with unhinged social discourse about sex.

We are so back.

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@zeeg A few times in my life I’ve had a conversation where someone is really worried the devs will steal the IP.

Number one that’s a legal/crowbar issue, number two you think these guys who only wears shirts for weddings and funerals are gonna build b2b relationships and win RFPs?

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@rob_mcrobberson @ExistentialEnso Who has ever taken over a codebase from someone else and thought “wow this thing was done competently.”

I’m sure it happens, but in my experience normal is “I’m going to hate a lot of this until I’ve internalised the parts I didn’t have time to change.”

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Reddit bans your 16 year old account without warning if you trade arc raiders BPs for other BPs in a thread created by subreddit moderators.

FML

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@tunahorse21 I was managing with around 50 or so colleague students from various computer majors and different unis on a volunteer project and the largest hurdle by far was that not a single one of them had used git.

This was almost entirely UK students though.

Extremely surprising.

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@ThePrimeagen Oversized shirts and baggy pants is usually a dead giveaway.

Board the train on the opposite end of your seat, and then hold a flustered monologue about how you wish how there are signs (which there are.)

Book tours via Airbnb.