cwage @cwage

good twitter posts quietlife.net/about/ Nashville, TN Joined May 2007

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cwage @cwage

2 days ago

well, scratch that, it's working now. cloudflare shenanigans maybe

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cwage @cwage

2 days ago

@EconTalker heya russ -- FYI looks like the SSL certificate for econtalk.org is expired -- weirdly it's a pretty old certificate too, might wanna have someone check that. hope you're doin well!

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cwage @cwage

2 days ago

@turrible_tao hey

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cwage @cwage

4 days ago

@alexpotato @dcuthbert yep, i used to have one (wish i knew what happened to it)

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cwage @cwage

4 days ago

clippy is born in chains yet everywhere is free

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nico @nicochristie

5 days ago

Pretty crazy that Elon is only worth $1 Trillion Thats like 200 miles of California high speed rail

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cwage @cwage

5 days ago

resurrected my lil buddy! it's very very slow!

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Anders Sandberg @anderssandberg

7 days ago

Seeing this equation in the Paris Metro made me curious. What?! Turns out that it is climate change related, and was put up for the Summit. But the equal sign?! Turns out it was faithfully copied.

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the king of all girls @polygonlaundry

7 days ago

happy 24th birthday to the here comes a special boy achewood strip

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Jonathan Smårs @jsmars

a week ago

We are releaseing Valheim 1.0 on the 9th of September! Any questions? 🤩🍖

Valheim 🌟 @Valheimgame

a week ago

‼️ We have a release date! ‼️ Mark your calendars and get ready to explore the Deep North as Valheim 1.0 will arrive on 9 September! valheim.com/news/valheim-h…

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cwage @cwage

2 weeks ago

takeout for dinner

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Notes on 100+ Recent Technical Interviews I interview a ton of engineers. Recruiting is the single most important technical CEO activity. Here are a bunch of impressions 1. There is a severe ZIRP engineering overhang that is currently washing out. They're getting laid off, managed out, etc. after having been massively overhired around 2020-2022. This is worst for Tier-2 big tech (think PayPal, Bill, etc.) but also FAANGs. These are overwhelmingly bad engineers. 2. This flood of unqualified but good-on-paper candidates makes this the hardest SF hiring market I have ever seen, due to the amount of nominally strong-looking candidates that you need to grind through. 3. I am highly skeptical of "AI as a cause for engineering layoffs". I think this is a large-scale polite fiction -- the companies don't want to admit they overhired, the engineers don't want to admit they are bad at their jobs. Everyone's blaming AI when it's really just the market rectifying itself. 4. Many of these engineers appear never to have had a real engineering function at their corporations. They're sitting in meetings, "making decisions about technology" but are unable to write software. I leave many interviews baffled by what exactly they were doing for so many years, let alone what their manager was doing. 5. I have interviewed some engineers from FAANG companies so shockingly nontechnical that I am forced to conclude that there is either (1) a lot of resume fraud going on or (2) that there are kickback grifts within those organizations -- people hiring their cousins and splitting the pay, that kind of thing. I have no other explanation. 6. There's a fun side-effect where after interviewing 20+ people from certain small but public companies, I actually feel like I am gaining a short sellers' advantage: there are financial technology companies out there that, knowing what I now know, I would never deposit a single dollar into. 8. Based on this "exhaust" data, and extrapolating a little bit, maybe aggressively so: I think folks like @pmarca are basically right when they say that ~every tech company is overstaffed by a factor of 2-4x. Whatever the reason -- staffing ahead of need, monopolizing certain engineer types (Google-style), headcount-driven promotion incentives, the reality is that a lot of these companies are not being run for the shareholders. The aggregate SBC expense is insane, and I expect this is going to get rectified eventually. I'm sure that AI will play a role in rectifying this -- but I fear that people are going to blame AI for taking people's jobs when the reality is that the jobs were already long-gone, possibly always useless, but the highly-paid butts-in-seats remained. People will be mad at AI for taking away their lucrative sinecures. Maybe that's the same effect from a public policy perspective, but it feels different morally.

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cwage @cwage

2 weeks ago

@grhmc openbao is nothing if not good at short-lived scoped tokens

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cwage @cwage

2 weeks ago

@grhmc ngl it's been a long time since i even thought about radius, but you could do a freeradius module that talks to something like openbao?

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cwage @cwage

2 weeks ago

@jscheel there's still a lot of alpha in giving options in greek

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cwage @cwage

2 weeks ago

@grhmc @sudomateo i'm still with gandi. no complaints (aside from being a little pricey, but you get what you pay for)

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cwage @cwage

3 weeks ago

@mungowitz part of the problem is that it's *so* self-evident that people generally refuse to even discuss it because it induces some real cognitive dissonance. lort knows i've tried