I'm back working on an ML model that I'm building and learning, and I jumped from Opus 4.6 or 4.7, can't remember, to 4.8. And it feels quite different. Opus 4.8 is bringing a lot more sophisticated points of discussion to the table. Is it better at machine learning?
I'm reading the book Incorruptible. It's fascinating. I recommended to all entrepreneurs and executives and I'm only on chapter 3.
The part that surprised me was that contributing meant one commit: that's it... one commit. So a viable strategy would be to find those projects, fix a bug, send a CV.
Contributing to open source is still a door opener to get a job. You have to pass the interviews, but recently I talked to a company that is desperate to find good engineers and contributing to the open source project that forms the core of their business puts you at the top.
This looks interesting: https://crackedaicode.com/
I added it to my list of things to play with as soon as I have some time.
If we would have named the engineering roles the way the role of product manager was named, they'd be "backend code manager", "frontend code manager", "infra manager"... just saying.
My team is hiring for an product manager. If you want to learn more: https://www.lifeatcanva.com/en/jobs/6000000001102641/product-manager-pexels/
I'm happily to be open about this: Canva is the best company I ever worked for in my life.
My team is hiring for an engineer manager. If you want to learn more: https://www.lifeatcanva.com/en/jobs/6000000001125369/engineering-manager-pexels/
I'm happily to be open about this: Canva is the best company I ever worked for in my life.
The single feature that I want the most in Slack: being able to move top level messages to a thread.
I just figured out google drive was making my windows file explorer fail to render thumbnails and previews. This has been annoying me for a long time. I'm very disappointed how bad gdrive is here. I ended up uninstalling it.
