@atomkirk This resonates a lot. Some of the hardest engineering work I’ve done was deleting complexity so future engineers never have to think about it again. It’s invisible work, but it compounds.
Distributed systems don’t fail cleanly.
Slow nodes > dead nodes.
Dead nodes get removed.
Slow nodes stay, block quorums, amplify retries, and take the system down politely.
I am hiring
Skills needed:
- come up with a idea
- select a domain name
- design a logo
- create frontend, backend or whatever end
- host it using aws/azure/docker/kubernetes whatever
- scale it to 100k users
- get into YC
- sell it for $100m
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I used to get this question at NPC house parties
And then I'd try explain the whole thing and it took to long "so I nomaded and then I built startups and blabla"
And it ALWAYS would turn into them wanting to escape their 9 to 5 and then asking me for hours how to and I got tired of that
So now I say
me: "I work in IT, like computers, yes"
them: "oh wow do you know ChatGPT?"
me: "No what's that? Like Whatsapp? Yeah I have chat apps already"
Better to stay undercover and nod🕵️♂️
Next level: QLoRA fine-tuning 4-bit Llama 3 8B on iPhone 15 pro.
Incoming (Q)LoRA MLX Swift example by David Koski: https://t.co/222HE2tQQp works with lot's of models (Mistral, Gemma, Phi-2, etc)
PSA: looking to add a staff+ engineer to the Foundry team, full time.
expectations: rust expert, fearless about diving into new codebases, drive projects end to end, obsession with talking to customers and understanding their needs.
reach out with Github / past contributions!