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Convex is in a16z’s portfolio. https://a16z.com/2022/04/27/investing-in-convex/

That GitHub org is a16z.

Their other repos are also showcasing various AI toolings, often the tools are also startups they invest in.

Every org has different cultures and leadership culture within it.

A power culture has zero trust and is high blame. Bureaucratic is process oriented. Generative experiments, tests, learns from failure.

The organization you have never experienced is generative. And coupled with transformational leadership it’s a pleasant environment to work in as either a manager or IC. These orgs do exist and are not rare either.

Sounds like a codebase filled with the ghosts of programmer past. Just put the code in and own maintaining it. Anyone can do a git blame and find the history of its implementation, and also see the original PR which should have described what it was doing, and provided far more context to the reviewers than a code comment.

And if an architecture decision is so significant, retain a repository of architecture decision records.

Nothing it produces is that many lines. How is that not debuggable? If you can’t, you’re having it do things you don’t even understand and blindly implementing and seems like a user issue. Additionally, take the code and ask it to write tests and validation scripts with your expectations.

All major cities have areas and neighborhoods that are higher risk and not “safe”. You wouldn’t let your kid there, your partner or yourself go there typically.

I lived in North Philadelphia throughout college and a couple years after. It isn’t a lie to say you are operating at a different level of vigilance. Your behaviors change. So no, Hollywood didn’t tell me anything about North Philly, my experience did.

It’s quite amusing how everyone is saying US cities are safe and great like Baltimore, while they’re also saying “if you mostly stay in the gentrified or well established areas”. Is that even Baltimore then? Or a bubble within Baltimore?

How much power have you quantified saving by disabling JavaScript over the course of a week?

Excellent illustration of the awful onboarding experience.

No one wants to waste their time connecting a constellation, they want to get to content as fast as possible.

Amazing parallel to my discovery of programming.

I distinctly remember the EUO window and the first time I was trying to understand the syntax of a random script I pasted into it. It was almost readable with and made sense “if X”, “while X”..

Who knew I was learning basic flow control, booleans and variables.

What stuck the most after all the years is that curious desire to tinker and hack at something obsessively until you get it.

How do you qualify relevancy? Your own personal bubble and bias? Adoption and usage?

Pull requests and stars on github? That might be a start.

https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/pull_requests/2022/4 https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/stars/2022/4

Though you may say but but alltheprivaterepos! Then I challenge you to back up what you mean by relevance and prove python is a category of relevant 15+ years ago.