Dysfunctional Programming account #1. Senior SWE. I still write C++ for money. ex-Haskell, ex-OCaml. All opinions are my own.
London, UK
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People who work more than you will call you a slacker.
People who work less than you will say you’re missing out on real life.
There’s only one way to live a happy life.
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On every single one of my past SWE jobs, I couldn’t see the ceiling for my growth.
Everything seemed so easy, and I always thought I could do more.
For the first time in my life, I finally see my ceiling. And it’s much lower than I anticipated.
For the first time in my life I work at a place where I face problems I can’t solve.
Wow, it feels incredible.
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I have a hobby I've been doing for 18 years.
Despite such a long-term commitment, I really suck at it.
But I don't care. I really enjoy doing it. I don't plan to be competitive or be the best. I just enjoy the process.
And for me, it's the perfect embodiment of a hobby.
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Hey @grok
What are 5 reasons for people to unfollow me?
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I submitted my buyout resignation to Microsoft today.
They rejected it.
Not because I’m so valuable.
But because I don’t work at Microsoft.
BREAKING: Microsoft, $MSFT, is offering buyouts to 60,000 workers as part of the company’s efforts to cut costs amid AI adoption, per Bloomberg.
Personnel on select teams in the US, Canada, India, and the UK at a vice president level and below will be eligible.
This reflects ~27% of Microsoft's total workforce.
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Everyone hates this growth hack.
Still don’t understand how this happened.
Might even have to write an introduction.
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Found a person on tech X having 100k+ followers and followed by 50 of my moots.
Yet I’ve never heard about them in 13 years or seen a single post.
It was a sobering reminder about the bubble we live in.
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For a very long time, my account was censored, and I couldn't say the things I wanted to say.
I'm finally free.
You're not going to believe what I'm about to tell you.
BREAKING: Microsoft, $MSFT, is offering buyouts to 60,000 workers as part of the company’s efforts to cut costs amid AI adoption, per Bloomberg.
Personnel on select teams in the US, Canada, India, and the UK at a vice president level and below will be eligible.
This reflects ~27% of Microsoft's total workforce.
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Translating this news to the American measurement system for my overseas friends.
China just lost one and a quarter of Anthropic.
The AI bubble is starting to pop in China.
The Chinese stock market has lost over $2,400,000,000,000 since its May 2026 peak, in large part because people realized AI investments are losing everyone money.
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System Design is just DSA on another level of abstraction.
If you’re good at problem-solving, both LeetCode and System Design will be straightforward to you.
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You’ve been working on a big feature for a month. You go on a 3-week vacation before finishing, so naturally, you have to hand it over.
You return and it’s still not done.
Do you reassign the task back to yourself?
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This single shell command will save you millions of tokens on renaming variables.
Bookmark this.
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Accidentally discovered unexpected C++ ADL behaviour.
In retrospect, it makes sense once you know the rule. It's just that the rule is the opposite of my default expectations.
I tried to make a simplified real example.
What should the following code print, in your opinion?
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Guess who followed me after this post
I've seen people trying to dunk on Tim Sweeney for being just a billionaire who doesn't know how to code, while he's literally one of the most cracked devs out there.
Yet some people have no idea about his background.
And here I am, a nobody, worrying that people don't know my background and thinking I'm just a dumb shitposter/tech influencer.
If people want a summary of my past work, I might write something up.
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I've seen people trying to dunk on Tim Sweeney for being just a billionaire who doesn't know how to code, while he's literally one of the most cracked devs out there.
Yet some people have no idea about his background.
And here I am, a nobody, worrying that people don't know my background and thinking I'm just a dumb shitposter/tech influencer.
If people want a summary of my past work, I might write something up.
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