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How to 12x your MRR in 1 minute: 1. Triple the pricing 2. Reduce usage by 50% 3. Add no extra value 4. Repeat next year @beehiiv keeps increasing its prices every year. As a customer, I feel ripped off. So I'm churning. What's the best alternative?
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1999: -interview is fizzbuzz on a whiteboard, five minutes, job offered by Friday 2025: -five rounds, a take-home project, and a rejection email generated by the same system that scanned your CV
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y'all seem pretty ok with voice agents for people who hate "jumping on a quick call"
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things I'd put on my CV if honesty were allowed: 'fixed it by restarting the pod' 'copied the fix from the last outage' 'closed the ticket, reopened in 2 weeks' 'googled my own stack overflow answer'
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TDD became *almost* obsolete once LLMs starting writing/reading most of the code Heavily specced integration tests > unit tests
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A problem shared is a problem halved. A problem shared in the incident channel is a problem forty people can now watch you not solve.
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Show me one engineer who writes better code than an llm.
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I miss Pocket
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How long after joining did you stop pretending you'd read the onboarding docs?
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watching as openai and anthropic swallow your startup with their latest announcements
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if I was Moriarty I would've hidden my plans in Confluence, three folders deep, last edited by someone who left the company in 2019
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gonna tell my grandchildren this was claude
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git blame exists so you can find out exactly which version of yourself to be angry at
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