"hey man what do you do?"
"im building the future"
"thats awesome. but what do you actually do"
"i sleep 3-4 hours a night and grind all day with the team"
"that seems... unhealthy and unproductive. what are you guys working on"
"its not WORK. its a LIFE GOAL. if i dont put in 140 hours a week i LOSE! id rather die young and rich than live long and poor"
"dude thats grueling"
"thats the MISSION. everyone at the company agrees. they have the logo tattooed on their ass. if theyre not willing to die for this they're OUT"
"holy shit. what are you building, i bet its some future tech that changes history"
"an insurance company"
"..."
"it has AI in it"
"got it"
Uber’s COO has said that it’s getting “harder to justify” its AI costs because there was no way to show a link between AI spend and any meaningful increase in useful features. This is the first time I’ve seen a company say this directly.
https://t.co/xUhZvtpwah
how do teams actually share .env variables securely
because the options I see are
- Slack DM (terrible)
- email (worse)
- shared Notion doc (somehow even worse)
- 1Password or similar
- something I'm missing
It's 2026 and your CEO just sent you a 2,400 line pull request.
You get a cup of coffee and sit down to review it.
It's a disaster. A dozen unrelated refactors. Unused methods with names like `convertFromBase10` and `normalizeBeforeSerialization`.
You catch a few hardcoded API keys, but that's ok. It's part of the dance. They didn't consider that someone might look at this diff. Here's a comment buddy.
They respond in an hour (after Copilot, qodo, CodeRabbit and Greptile finish their reviews) saying we shouldn't worry about "implementation details" anymore, those are relics of the past. Hey let's jump into a room and figure it out. We can't just agree to disagree, this is probably my last job in tech and I can't watch this fucker burn the place to the ground.
The PR merges and goes to prod. You feel a shared sense of apathy and dread with Hannah the intern (she has to review his AI generated social media posts ever since Grok got too imaginative).
That night you go to sleep and have nightmares of that code. You can still see the shapes of it on the backs of your eyelids.
You go to work the next day ready to quit. You no longer understand the system. There is no foundation. Time to use those savings and an SBA loan to buy a liquor store and never login to GitHub again.
Today my wife asked me "why is all the software so bad now, don't you guys have AI now to make it better?" and honestly I was kinda lost how to even start answering