AbbeFaria

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by AbbeFaria 6d ago
As the old saying at MSFT goes, “Shipping is a feature”.
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by AbbeFaria 22d ago
There are a sizeable number of Meta employees that have jobs due to Zuck’s sheer generosity and the fact that he cares about his public image and laying them off in service of Meta’s bottom line won’t look good. Elon firing half of Twitter
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by AbbeFaria 22d ago
As a measly backend programmer, I only have a good mental model of a “lock”, think a sync.Mutex in Golang. But I wanted to go deeper into the rabbit hole and understand concepts like memory ordering and how atomic operations are actually im
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by AbbeFaria 1mo ago
It’s the nature of our jobs. The artefacts we produce, code and documentation are out in the open, available freely for training LLMs. That’s not true for highly qualified doctors, patient case histories, patient feedback that helps doctors
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by AbbeFaria 1mo ago
I know it’s a troll, This was no MOOC. I didn’t even get a certificate. I saw the job opening in the careers portal and just cold DM’d the HM. As to why I DM’d, what do I have to lose ? I was already working at MSFT in a different team. The
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by AbbeFaria 2mo ago
I “audited” CMU 15-445 in April 2026, a few months ago. I then applied to Azure Hyperscale DB team, and as my pitch to get hired I cold DM’d the hiring manager whatever I finished in the assignments (BPM, Concurrent B-tree, Transaction supp
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by AbbeFaria 2mo ago
I have been seeing this in my engineering org too. Sentences begin with “My agent said this” etc. This is frustrating on so many levels, developers don’t put any thought into the cognitive load that these artefacts generate. I am going to s
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by AbbeFaria 2mo ago
Reminds me of that scene in Silicon Valley, where they show the optimistic Hooli Ad which Gavin Belson labels a “tampon ad” and then proceeds to blast his entire C-suite to outcompete Pied Piper.
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by AbbeFaria 2mo ago
I haven’t watched the lectures yet. Reading the papers and using Claude/GPT to ask for references etc is good enough for me. I did watch a few, ones on GFS and Raft but didn’t see the ROI, lectures are too long. Reading the papers mult
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by AbbeFaria 2mo ago
+1 to this. I am on Assignment 3D (dealing with log compaction in Raft). I have learnt more about Distributed Systems just by "auditing" this course. For Paxos, I also recommend reading Paxos v Raft, Have we reached consensus on d
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Microsoft Frontier Company(blogs.microsoft.com)
8 points by AbbeFaria 3mo ago|2 comments
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How Big Tech Hides the True Cost of the AI Buildout [video](youtube.com)
3 points by AbbeFaria 3mo ago|0 comments
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by AbbeFaria 3mo ago
I know the article is AI slop just by the structure, my last job at MSFT had me producing artefacts like this, which is why I quit ;) The issue with buying land outside major metro areas like BLR are the following, 1. Irregular power supply
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by AbbeFaria 3mo ago
Meta is a cash generating behemoth. They have such a well oiled ad machine that it’s going to be a long time before they destroy themselves. Case in point, they look fine financially even after burning mountains of cash on the Metaverse. I
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by AbbeFaria 3mo ago
Excess verbiage in communication. Design docs, root cause debriefs etc all are clearly AI generated with little thought to whether they are helpful to the reader. They are certainly helpful to the writer as they can just offload it to the A
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by AbbeFaria 3mo ago
> So you and OP believe that, these systems are good indicators of skills, so much that the last statement sounds normal? Op here, yes I do believe, the levels aren’t perfect though. I believe in them because I was once L60 and L61, I kn
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by AbbeFaria 3mo ago
Have no idea why people here are picking up on MSFT’s levelling system? I didn’t invent it.And it actually starts at L59. The point I made was that as an SSE (L63), there’s a certain amount of scope and autonomy that is expected neither of
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by AbbeFaria 3mo ago
You are not alone. I was in this exact same position at MSFT and I put in my resignation. I am an L63 but the work I was doing, was something an L60-L61 could do and I frequently felt I was in one of those Bullshit jobs (courtesy of David
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by AbbeFaria 4mo ago
Here’s my take as an Indian having lived in cities like Mumbai, Hyderabad and Bengaluru 1. No manufacturing expertise in India, we aren’t a manufacturing powerhouse despite having similar levels of population as China. We have always priori
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by AbbeFaria 4mo ago
Is this course still available? What about the course materials? I know it will be dated but if so can someone pls share the links. Tried searching for it on google but couldn’t find it.
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by AbbeFaria 4mo ago
It’s more nuanced than that. There are lines of business where there is plenty of growth and places where growth has stagnated or business is decelerating. In the former, you can see some of the products that MSFT is shipping such as MAIA c
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by AbbeFaria 4mo ago
This matches my experience at MSFT. Very little work for too many people, MSFT CFO also said in the latest earnings calls that MSFT will have fewer people next year than this year, they offered buyouts to tenured people, did layoffs in Link
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by AbbeFaria 4mo ago
There’s a hierarchy amongst knowledge work and AI hasn’t yet been able to do the work that is rare and valuable. Over the past two decades, there have been lot of solved problems like building boring scalable web apps, UX design etc and AI
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by AbbeFaria 4mo ago
> because the reader must now sift the synthetic context for whatever the document was originally about > time wasted using AI on tasks that did not need it, on artifacts no one will read, on processes that exist only because the tool
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by AbbeFaria 4mo ago
I work at MSFT. I can understand the incentives behind this change. Although I am not sure how different GitHub culture is from MSFT. I am sure they are closely tracking this metric of Copilot authored PRs so that everyone down from Nadella
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by AbbeFaria 5mo ago
the Microsofties viewing their IBM colleagues as mired in pointless bureaucracy and the IBM folks viewing Microsofties as undisciplined hackers. I work at MSFT, this made me chuckle hard. Microsoft must have been a very different company ba
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by AbbeFaria 5mo ago
I work at MSFT and can concur. It’s dystopian that this is industry wide. It’s just stat padding tbh, things that people can bring up during their performance discussions, oh hey I ran this AI initiative, wrote a bunch of markdown files, th
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by AbbeFaria 5mo ago
Random reward mechanisms have been woven into the very fabric of the digital world, so doesn’t surprise me.
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by AbbeFaria 5mo ago
If you have the self-awareness to realise that your job is BS and is deleterious to your well being the path of least resistance is to simply quit and find another job hopefully that is more relevant to what you’re skilled at. All this chic
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Don't Confuse Computer Science with Coding(substack.com)
2 points by AbbeFaria 5mo ago|0 comments

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