SaaS
5 min read
The Atlassian Software Engineer Interview: Where the Real Cut Happens
Here's the number I want you to hold onto before you do anything else: five rounds, and exactly one of them is not about code. That one round is 45 minutes long.
Careers
10 min read
What Nobody Tells You About Surviving Layoffs
The email landed at 9:14 on a Tuesday. Fourteen minutes into the workday, before I'd finished my coffee, with a calendar invite titled "Quick Sync" and no agenda. By 9:40 I was locked out of Slack.
Ai Infrastructure
10 min read
Why Does Your AI Infrastructure Keep Falling Behind the Model Team? A Field Answer
You approved the GPU order in a forty-minute meeting. The cluster arrived on a loading dock eleven weeks later.
Generative Ai
5 min read
The Sixth Lesson About AI Transparency in Ads: The Label Tells You Who Made It, Not Whether It's True
I spent an afternoon saving product images from ads that carried an AI disclosure label — the little line of text that says something to the effect that the visual was created or edited with…
Investing
4 min read
The Best AI Stocks Are Usually the Ones You've Already Talked Yourself Out Of
The AI stock that will hurt the most to have missed is the one you've already almost bought three times, then closed the tab because the P/E made you flinch. I know that because it happened to me.
Ai Regulation
5 min read
AI Regulation vs. Financial Crime: Is Your Compliance Stack Ready for the Machines You're Buying?
A mid-size European bank I spoke with last year switched its transaction monitoring to a machine-learning model and cut false positives by roughly 40 percent. The compliance team was thrilled.
Openai
6 min read
The LLM JSON Mode Bug That Corrupts Your Database: What I Learned Chasing Null Bytes
The first log line that mattered looked like this: ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0x00 CONTEXT: unnamed portal parameter $3 = '...' It came from a PostgreSQL insert that had worked…
Ai Prompting
5 min read
Lesson Six: The Real Skill Behind AI Prompting Isn't Technical — It's Description
I once retyped the same request to an image generator nineteen times. I counted, because by the twelfth I had started to feel stupid, and counting felt like a way of proving I was at least being…
Rust
11 min read
Rust Fundamentals: Ownership, Borrowing, and the OOP Power You Think You're Losing
I kept a tally for a quarter while I was relearning everything I thought I knew about programming. The number I want you to sit with is zero.