Thuan Pham

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Complacency is death. I mean like every the world will move faster and faster and the moment we stand still we are falling behind.

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we see the difference between the great engineer and an an average engineer is still two 3x in terms of their capability. They're more inquisitive. they're at the bleeding edge more, they're more innovative,

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we're trying to crack the next frontier which is how we get that level of productivity increase and output building new features on top of a code base that are older,

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it required a different way of thinking and the cognitive load might be a little higher but the output is dramatic and we have seen our best engineer double their output.

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We didn't go to other places because of cost savings like that. We go there because we have need and we have world class talent

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we have a very clear definition and expectation of what it is at the staff engineer level because we benchmark ourselves to all the great company out there Google, Facebook and all that

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I look at um the talent base and I think it is best for us to create opportunity for people to keep on growing with fresh new challenges within the company because if we don't do that they would leave the company

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I don't mind if we think we can do something of our own problem it's terrifying when we have a major problem and we depend on somebody else

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every feature that we want to put out has to be queued up on mobile development bandwidth dispatch bandwidth and it become impossible to navigate tradeoff because every feature you want to do you have to go negotiate with so many team

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the philosophy we all operate at the time was no one should be blocking anybody else. No one can block anybody else.

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had we freeze time, that piece of code could be decomposed in a matter of 3 to 6 months. But it took us 2 years to do that because as we peel out a piece of code, the business keep on going forward, right?

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none of us wanted to go through that extreme but lots of time when you are under a lot of pressure and no time to react other than just to survive that scale that keep on coming at you, you have to make uh decision that increase uh speed and velocity because speed and velocity allow us to build quick enough to survive

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that was the most brilliant thing because by doing the hardest thing first once you launch that everything else is downhill from there

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pretty soon by asking those leading question, the engineer now discovered a flaw that this thing would not scale,

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No new feature necessary. Just make sure that we can do that. And then that allow the business the company to just pour a whole bunch of hardware behind that and it will scale.

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Let's say if my requirement for the engineer was build a system that will scale infinitely to the test of time, it might take a year. We never get there. We'll die before then.

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the question about how big it can possibly grow nobody knows really. But it's actually not fruitful to pontificate on that.

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if you try to do a really good job at every company you've been working well with all the people that you work with, including your own team, your peer, whatever it is. Over time, very slowly, you accumulate a decent reputation in people's mind.

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There may be a lot of AI things that's going on right now, right? Uh eventually some of these things will consolidate, some will go under, some will become really awesome solutions and all that stuff. And so, but the the market will sort it out.

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There has to be sound business model that makes sustained profit, right? Growth and profit. Growth alone eventually burn, you know, money and that's not good.

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It's not about just a technology. It's about whether the world is ready for it, whether it's economically feasible.