Cory Berg 🇺🇸 🇨🇦

Building new SaaS with AI and helping tech leaders suck less. Memento mori.

[Cory Berg 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @thecoryberg]

@karpathy I started to prefer voice over mass typing also. We are truly in another world from even a couple years ago.

[Cory Berg 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @thecoryberg]

Biggest advice I can give to tech people:
Stop limiting yourself to the tech stereotype.

Big issue comes your way, a day goes by, no update: mistake.

Silence doesn't read as "diligent." It reads as "unaware."
One line fixes it: "Still digging, here's what I know so far..."

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@kareem_carr @eterevsky In practice, for me at least, its a lot of time prompting, testing, and reviewing the outcomes. It’s true that minimal code is hand-written, it’s definitely not a hands-off process unless it’s a toy problem or internal tool. Interestingly, the design process is also AI assisted.

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@a16z Gatekeeping? No. Giving a damn enough to put in the work? Yes.

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@atmoio Nothing like some shout capitals in lieu of clarity….

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@gregisenberg I’m trying it out also. Thanks for the link!

[Cory Berg 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @thecoryberg]

Leadership is a craft.
And like any craft, it’s built through mastery.
Not just of one thing - but three things:

🧠 Self-mastery
🤝 People mastery
⚙️ Execution mastery

If you want to be a complete leader, you have to work on all three.

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@rasmalai Never heard of Java?

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@pmitu I don’t see an alternative out there, but in general agree, it’s becoming a slopfest.

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@sama @sama do you see a convergence between the project concept and codex on the horizon? I use projects to define scope, architecture, dialog-based stuff, then I repeat a lot of it into codex/agent structure. It would be awesome if they could connect more seamlessly.

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@AnthropicAI Claude has definitely become my default product manager 🤓

[Cory Berg 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @thecoryberg]

1. Get it to work.
2. Optimize .

When in doubt, start over at 1.

[Cory Berg 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @thecoryberg]

Engineering pitch translation guide:

You say: "We need OAuth 2.0 implementation"
Boss hears: [nothing useful]
You say: "N+1 query patterns"
Boss hears: [so what?]

What works: "This costs us $10K daily in abandoned carts."

Tell a story, don't confuse with tech.

[Cory Berg 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @thecoryberg]

Build trust *before* you need it. Reach out to peers just to connect - not to request.

[Cory Berg 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @thecoryberg]

@J0hnADouglas 007 will become “license to hurt your feelings”

[Cory Berg 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @thecoryberg]

In times of turmoil, people don’t need perfection.
They need presence.
A steady hand. A calm voice. Positive energy.
Someone who says:
“I can’t stop the storm, but I won’t let it affect how I show up for my team.”

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@mhp_guy I believe it could have had more legs if they hadn’t been so aggressive in growth. They didn’t have a handle on their own cost basis, supply chain was not so transparent despite the vertical integration, so fundamentally the growth plan was based on some shaky hypotheses.

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@LGUSSupport Thanks David. I tried the easy stuff, power cycle, reset, etc. There are no blockages, it looks to be a faulty door lock switch. Unfortunately the specific part seems like a rare commodity, odd given this is the new ThinQ series. I took a pic of the switch with my iPhone:

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So much for quality.

Never had a problem with LG TVs, but this is the last LG home appliance I will ever buy.

Bought new at Lowe’s, three months in, now unusable because of a hundred dollar part that nobody has. Useless manufacturers warranty.

What gives, @LgHomeRetail?