RobertK

McKinsey → Microsoft → Founding Engineer @ Axion from pre-seed to 300M 🏆 Microsoft 2021 Global Hackathon Challenge Winner

[RobertK @Robert_Builds]

Psychology Major → McKinsey → Microsoft Hackathon Winner → $100M VP → Back to Senior Engineer

The weird career path that actually made sense.

https://t.co/6RBLyRKZDl

[RobertK @Robert_Builds]

Exciting stuff happening lately hence me being MIA!

In the mean time I've got some more free @comet browser codes to hand out which comes with a free month of perplexity pro

https://t.co/I14AF5rD4P

Enjoy 🤠
DM me if this one gets taken too quick!

[RobertK @Robert_Builds]

@arvidkahl One of the most bizarre situations I’ve seen with this is Robinhood offering loot boxes for points on their credit card

I suppose this might be why they can maintain offering 3 percent cash back on every purchase

[RobertK @Robert_Builds]

@craigzLiszt It feels we, as developers, can actually give accurate work estimates now 😎

[RobertK @Robert_Builds]

@_thomasip Been clean off of Databricks for 4 years
Now I throw my money to mongodb and GCP

[RobertK @Robert_Builds]

@_thomasip Theyre really good at taking up half of a data organizations budget every year 😎

[RobertK @Robert_Builds]

No one is passing the GOAT Databricks in the funding alphabet though

Those boys are rocking a series K right now 😂 (not kidding)

For the love of god let some of my old colleagues cash out

[Morning Brew ☕️ @MorningBrew]

World's Most Valuable Private Companies:

1. OpenAI $500B
2. SpaceX $400B
3. ByteDance $330B
4. Anthropic $183B
5. xAI $113B
6. Databricks $100B
7. Stripe $92B
8. Revolut $75B
9. Shein $66B
10. Canva $42B

[RobertK @Robert_Builds]

@_thomasip Series AAA sponsored by Duracell

[RobertK @Robert_Builds]

@Evan__Harris @svpino I don’t get that cheeky yet

It’s a good point and certainly worth some experimenting

Maybe using 4.1 opus for planning and sonnet 4.5 for execution would be a good move but I have ZERO evidence to back that up

[RobertK @Robert_Builds]

@ciguleva @perplexity_ai @comet @apostraphi their retrofuturism/wonder filled art style ( or whatever you call it) BANGS

Give the art guys at @perplexity_ai a raise

Comet bangs too

[RobertK @Robert_Builds]

This is the biggest problems with ai coding now

I start with core functionality tests first

Have it build the scaffolding for tests
Do a few for the core use case on your own and use that as the reference point

Then you can have AI code with the TDD paradigm after

Review in small chunks (less than 100 lines of code )

This helps me a lot and is what I encourage my team to do

[RobertK @Robert_Builds]

Having worked at a preseed startup as well as in big tech

It’s mind blowing how much red tape exists in corporate

At Microsoft you literally couldn’t do anything in their federal division without ages of approval

Before working there I never understood how big companies couldn’t move fast but I get it now. Decades of compliance and regulatory burden combined with the intricacies of having a new system play nice with all other systems

Most of the time is spent planning rather than building software

The big guys will have innovation divisions which operate more like startups but they can’t do this for everything !

So if you’re a scrappy startup - you can CRUSH these guys if you niche down

[RobertK @Robert_Builds]

@corp2startup Yeah I’m not fundamentally opposed to paying for services that give me value but I really prefer buying a car, paying it off, and then having it as mine

I remember being opposed to SaaS initially as well but I’ll have to get with the times!

[RobertK @Robert_Builds]

As much as I wish this was temporary, all signals have been pointing towards usage based and fully dynamic pricing

As a consumer I HATE it

Nothing worse than unexpected bills especially since usage doesn’t always equal value

How are you guys feeling about the new era of pricing ?

I miss paying 20 bucks for a game and that was it

[RobertK @Robert_Builds]

@thejustinwelsh Jobs take what you refuse to protect

It’s a two way street

I even knew people at McKinsey that worked 50 hours a week opposed to the normal 70 or 80

Set boundaries or the company sets them for you

[RobertK @Robert_Builds]

@tekbog Moment of silence for the newest corporate cog in the machine ⚙️

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@TepesGAlexandru @TejasKumar_ Yeah it’s unreal how fast it can add up

Our biggest pain wasn’t even cloud it was mongo db

That thing BURNS cash

[RobertK @Robert_Builds]

@piyushorb In the early days only solve problems that are immediately on fire

In the semi mature days build processes that scale one order of magnitude higher

In the mature days solve problems before they catch fire

This is the playbook that’s worked for us so far

[RobertK @Robert_Builds]

what emoji is this?
wrong answers only

my guess: child combatant