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“Effective immediately, no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military may conduct any commercial activity with Anthropic.”
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Best of luck to Pete getting the DoW off AWS, Azure, Google services, and even making their own rockets again.
Nobody (who’s actually working) has time for this bullshittery. Somebody needs to get their man before he gets worse
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Such great work was done by a lot of amazing engineers and engineer wranglers 😆
Kudos, and keep at it!
Yesterday a next generation B-21 Stealth Bomber left a desert runway and climbed out over the fence like it had no interest in being photographed. That’s the next American strategic bomber, the one built to replace the B-2, and the public schedule still has it becoming operational in 2027.
While governments rehearse speeches and walk out of halls, this thing exists so that the people currently probing for weakness have to keep guessing whether the answer is already airborne.
It won’t be asking the UN for permission and it sure as hell won’t care who left the room. That’s the point of building it.
What an absolute beauty 😍
Community note
This is a stolen video. This is from Jarod Hamilton
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What’s your favorite “You have no idea what you’re talking about” quote in tech? I just saw this one in the wild:
“Claude also directly causes conflict within teams through excessive utility of "git blame" which weaponizes everyone against each other until only Claude has control.”
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When you’re a brand new employee: just do everything your boss asks, and follow up to say when it’s done.
After a couple weeks, if you think the task isn’t beneficial, feel free to tell them in the moment. Keep following up when you’re done.
After a few months, you might be able to see the space better than them. Feel free to present suggestions before getting any tasking. You don’t need to follow up on all completed tasks, just the big ones.
After that, it’s partially your responsibility to skip dumb tasks and focus on core initiatives. You’ll obviously have to take the blame if you get caught not doing something that was actually important.
Once you become a manager and above, you are now responsible for everyone under you playing this game. You will get many requests (that look like demands) that are the wrong thing to do. You’ll have to balance it- that’s what the money is for.
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Scott retweeted
Long range career advice. (Won't help you get a job tomorrow, this is a ~10-20 year thing)
You want to run two processes. Your main loop:
1. Knock on doors, many outside your league, and get yourself in a room with the most competent people who will have you.
2. Work your ass off to be reliably useful to them. Like, really, _really_ hard. However hard you think you're working to be reliably useful, work ten times harder. Also, be cheerful.
3. Every once in a while pop your head out and go to step 1.
Your background loop: look around for weird asymmetric opportunities. A startup to found/join, a project to hack on, an angel investment into a friend's company, whatever. When your heart sings, jump on it. (You will fail a lot but that's fine so long as you handle failure well, I'll cover that in another post)
In exchange for working really hard you get two things. First, knowledge/experience-- you learn a ton. Second, relationships-- ppl will remember how great it was to work with you. Knowledge and relationships with competent ppl create crazy asymmetric opportunities. You then jump on those. (There is a lot of twitter slop about compounding, well this is what career compounding looks like.)
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Now some failure modes. Do _not_ do this:
"I deserve much better than this company/role, I'm just going to begrudgingly collect a paycheck" --> first, you deserve what the market clears and that's that. Second, if you act this way you'll only hurt yourself. Your colleagues will remember you as a grouch and it will wreck the compounding loop. Third, it's a very unpleasant state to be in, and you should choose not to be in it.
"But I work at Home Depot, what's there to compound?" --> that's extremely shortsighted. Maybe you do a super good job helping a customer who then has an open spot and remembers you. Maybe your store manager becomes a regional manager and calls you. Maybe years down the line your quiet peer is looking for a partner to start their own store. Maybe none of this happens, but it doesn't matter because empirically ppl who try hard to be useful wherever they are tend to do great, and people who don't, don't. (Home Depot is a metaphor, obviously)
"I hate this place, I quit! And anyway they're a faceless corporation that will lay me off any time." --> don't do that. The company may be a faceless corporation, but your colleagues are not faceless. They bet on you, hopefully you did a great job, and now they depend on you. Leaving is never easy, but do it in a way that respects the trust ppl put in you.
"Everyone around me is an idiot, I hate this!" --> maybe they are, or maybe you're not ready and some day will discover you were wrong about this. In any case you can learn from everyone and everything. So do that and be useful, don't break the compounding loop because opportunities will surprise you and things are often not what they seem.
“_I_ should have been promoted not that other guy/why is my manager layering me, screw this!” --> every time that happened i eventually understood I deserved it, you probably do too. Don’t hold grudges, do your best to figure out how to learn from this and move on, it will make sense eventually.
P.S. it helps if you’re a little talented.
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