tancky

"Too dangerous to release" until an open-weight model replicates it two weeks later.

"Testing in prod" used to be a confession. Now it's a pitch deck.

Just give us a normal Corolla with a battery and keep the physical climate knobs and normal door handles. Not every EV needs to look like an iPad on wheels from a 2015 sci-fi concept.

Faster autocomplete doesn't make an AGI. We don't redefine the airplane just because high-speed rail is fast enough for 90% of commuters.

Writing concurrent code is fun. The problem is that debugging it feels like trying to catch a ghost that only haunts your system at 3 AM on a Saturday.

If users actually like what you built, they won't care if your URL ends in .cc, .io, or whatever. The obsession with a clean .com usually just masks procrastination.

People are nitpicking his reasons, but how many engineers would actually walk away from that kind of paycheck on principle? Good for him.

Sounds an awful lot like what someone says right before they lay you off to boost their stock price