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Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.

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  Few tech companies put as much thought and effort into internal decor and vibes as Google does.

  Google

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  Few tech companies put as much thought and effort into internal decor + vibes as Google does, even today

  @GergelyOrosz on Xx.com

Systems and developer-tools engineer at Cloudflare as of 2026, on durable infrastructure for AI agents; worked on React and PartyKit before that. Writes at sunilpai.dev.

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  The JEV release is prompting a widespread rethink of fundamentals around a novel primitive, similar to a React major version drop.

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  the jev release is giving react major version drop vibes. just a massive crashing wave, everyone rethinking fundamental stuff and thinking through the implications of a novel new primitive.

  @threepointone on Xx.com

Writes Don't Worry About the Vase, a near-daily account of what is happening in AI and what they think it means. Former Magic: the Gathering pro and trader; unusually willing to put a number on a belief and to grade their own past calls.

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  Those running government AI model testing do not understand what is going on and react basically on vibes and what trusted people tell them.

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  I do not think those running the government testing understand what is going on, and believe they are reacting basically on vibes and what various trusted people tell them.

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Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.

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  A productivity improvement means fewer people doing the same job, and that should be said plainly by the people defending it as good.

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  This is very important because in the abstract, I think everyone says, "Yay, productivity. That's good." What did you think, this was all just vibes? No. Productivity means fewer people to do the same number or the same job. Now, the amount of job you want done may increase, and therefore you get more people, but it also may not.

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Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.

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  We cannot say what a junior engineer is worth because we cannot say what any engineer is worth; it is all vibes.

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  The hardest thing about quantifying the value of junior engineers is that we don't know how to quantify the value of any engineer. So it's all vibes.

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Co-founder and chief executive of Figma, the collaborative design platform he started in 2012 and took public in 2025.

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  Teams building AI products coast on vibes for too long: trusting the vibes gets you somewhere, but it is not rigorous.

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  it's easy to um go on vibes for too long. Uh some folks, you know, just kind of like trust the vibes and you know that'll get you somewhere, but it's not rigorous.

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Writes Where's Your Ed At and hosts Better Offline; runs a tech PR firm, and argues at length that the AI business does not add up.

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  The modern executive is symbolic: what gets rewarded is the appearance of doing work rather than any output anyone can measure.

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  We live in the era of the symbolic executive, when "being good at stuff" matters far less than the appearance of doing stuff, where "what's useful" is dictated not by outputs or metrics that one can measure but rather the vibes passed between managers and executives that have worked their entire careers to escape the world of work.

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Writer on the intersection of technology and finance. Author of the Bits about Money newsletter and host of the Complex Systems podcast; previously at Stripe.

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  The Social Network

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  The Social Network is substantially made up, more a source for vibes rather than a source for facts. Even the vibes fail to cohere with reality. And yet it convinced many proto-founders to put in YC applications.

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