Jorge Ortiz
@JorgeO
Purveyor of fine pizzas, confessor to distraught nerds. Formerly: @Stripe, @Foursquare, @LinkedIn. He/him. 🇲🇽🏳️🌈
This is the most thoughtful thing I’ve read on LLMs and coding, very much resonates with my experience. Thank you @nicholasbs @recursecenter. recurse.com/blog/191-devel…
Wait until they hear about in-region but cross-AZ data transfer costs 🤪
please please please make sure your application servers are in the same region as your databases stop paying for extra latency
What’s classy when rich people do it but trashy when poor people do it? Being homeless, unshowered, smelly, living in urban tent encampments, and surviving off drugs and junk food you didn’t pay for.
visiting the xAI office really humbled me
This is amazing. Codex telling me it can't commit to doing the work, and asks if I can submit the PR so it can review it.
It’s not just systems design but also… code architecture? File layout, naming conventions, dependency hygiene, interfaces, testability, observability, threat modeling, documentation… If you have good taste & can hold the AIs to a high bar on these… very powerful.
if you get good at systems design and then use cursor to build you can create incredibly robust products. this is the opposite of vibe coding and still leverages AI at full power.
Time to play my favorite post-incident guessing game: Intern or CTO?
Which team members are up extremely late/early, have access to edit Grok's response prompt, exhibit low self-control, and care about South Africa? 🤔
This is posted as a joke, but… Flattery/sycophancy is high-key the best way to get ahead in Silicon Valley.
anytime my friends tell me anything now, my default response is: “you're absolutely right! you're sitting on a core truth here, and this just further proves your elite-level thinking.”
Contrarian take: TurboTax is Good, Actually. You can pay 10-100x more for a professional to do your taxes, and have both a WORSE user experience and WORSE tax outcomes. TurboTax is VERY well-written software. Integrates with everything. Slurps up any PDF. Shows you what…
Turbo Tax should not exist as a company as tax preparation and filing should be automatic for 90% of filers. I think now is the time to go after them and I would love to talk to any founder that is working on a consumer tax filing product.
Tough day for Ayn Rand Republicans.
How are things going politically for Republicans? Well, you currently have Rand Paul and Tim Kaine doing a joint appearance on Fox calling Trump’s tariffs insane.
For some roles, the probability is 100%. That is, there are roles that are opened specifically so that the person hired for it can be thrown under the bus.
One factor advanced career people should consider in their next job (especially for internal transfers) is how likely it is that your new manager will throw you under the bus to save themselves when the going gets tough. If you are experienced, this isn’t all that hard to assess.
VCs when prices are high before they’ve written a check: Markets are so frothy. VCs when prices are high after they’ve written a check: I’m a genius generating so much alpha.
This has to be the frothiest VC market for seed and pre-seed I’ve seen in my tech lifetime (2012 - present). It’s becoming truly absurd.
I've been vibe coding with Claude Code and Cursor and it feels something like youtube.com/watch?v=dJ0AkP…
Planes are falling out of the sky in record numbers. This is where the Trump administration is choosing to spend its time.
FAA: NOTAM again stands for 'Notice to Airmen.'
My drones can stay airborne for 6 hours and fly as slowly as 28kts…. off to New Jersey! 🛸💃
Rampant lawbreaking and fraud at @SFPD, costing taxpayers >$100m/yr. Who is holding @SFPDChief accountable, @LondonBreed @DanielLurie? sfstandard.com/2024/12/12/san…
So the FBI has infiltrated movements for: - civil rights - women’s liberation - lgbt rights - the environment - nuclear disarmament - puerto rican indenepence - labor unions - muslims - american indians - anti-war - anti-police brutality But they missed the armed insurrection?!?
No undercover FBI agents were at the January 6 US Capitol riot, watchdog reports cnn.com/2024/12/12/pol…
NoSQL remains undefeated
its funny that pretty much the most widely adopted OLTP at scale end state is sharded mysql using as few features as possible