Ask HN: I am about to go from SWE to Product Manager, what is your day 1 advice?
As title says, what advice do you have for someone who is a mid-level SWE (4-6 YOE) and about to become a product manager?
I’ve also seen people argue that we should learn to not see vocabulary gender as gender at all, just start associating some words as “la” and some as “el” with no boy/girl idea behind it.
I feel like the affluent just love to invent new words to show the “others” that aren’t using it how backwards they are, and how the affluent are truly enlightened.
• Fiscal Year 2026: $133.75 billion (up 31.34% YoY)
• Fiscal Year 2025: $101.83 billion (up 15.54% YoY)
• Fiscal Year 2024: $88.14 billion (up 21.80% YoY)
• Fiscal Year 2023: $72.36 billion
Seems like they can decrease workforce, make up the gap with AI, and increase revenue while doing it
The Browns are perpetually bad because their owners allow it.
Look at the Lions, new owner, completely new mentality.
The government can’t regulate a black market.
Maybe this has changed since I wrote Rust, but that was a classic beginner fix. Just throw memory at it.
5x in a decade. The way it’s talked about you would think it’s orders of magnitude.
You are saying this like there are other of nations that didn’t need to struggle for equal rights, workers’ right etc.
You are right though, how long can someone who doesn’t own that land, have authority on how it is used.
As title says, what advice do you have for someone who is a mid-level SWE (4-6 YOE) and about to become a product manager?
I feel like this might be a net negative from the pure speed and access in which you can lose money online vs real life, but idk.
This doesn’t work like you think it does. These things are full of errors and make the code very verbose and hard to reason about. It works with small apps, not entire rewrites.
If we design an AI to do work, it won’t innately care about not working to preserve power.
Computers won’t necessarily have the same drivers.
If evolution wanted us to always prefer to spend energy, we would prefer it. Same way you wouldn’t expect us to get to AGI, and have AGI desperately want to drink water or fly south for the winter.
Maybe Meta missed on those big plays and now there’s too much pressure to make another.
I don’t know if I believe that, but worth considering
Prediction markets are all the buzz, but banning them isn’t fixing the problem. This has happened forever. Let’s not forget there was an unusual amount of put option buying right before 9/11: https://ideas.repec.org/a/ucp/jnlbus/v79y2006i4p1703-1726.ht...
(Weed legalization in many states, Abortion protection in Missouri I believe)
You could also argue Brexit. Ultimately, most of the UK was okay with shooting themselves in the foot to feel more independent like the good olds days. Maybe was wrong long-term, but if it’s what the people wanted, then maybe it’s good. Politicians never would have done it despite the people wanting it.
Can’t imagine what that must have been like to witness in medieval Italy.
If someone owns the keyboard then they can fake those metrics and tell the server it is happening when it isn’t.
That will be easy to beat.
I doubt you are making regex and not looking at it, even if it was AI generated.
If it learned language based on how the internet talks, then the best way to communicate is using similar language.