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ML/AI Systems at Google. Simplicity and optimism. Personal opinions. 🇺🇸🇪🇺

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1Aug 17, '23When I was working at Google 10 years ago, 3 engineers would get together to solve a very hard problem in 6 months without distraction from anyone, then get the sponsorship of 1-2 48.4×1.2M6.6k319873
2Feb 25, '23Once I met someone who confessed that they set a crone job committing 2-7 empty changes to a private repo not to deal with this nonsense 😂45.2×1.1M7.5k396444
3Apr 28, '24When I joined Google, people used to spend time evaluating ideas and prototyping not for the sake of not working but not to jump on a low impact idea and burn millions of dollars. 36.6×912k1.2k64664
4Aug 28, '24Burnout happens when there is no progress. Burnout also happens when you have no visibility into how dots will connect in the future. Burnout is about not being able to close the l32.1×800k17k2.5k4.9k
5Oct 31, '25Lately I’ve been feeling depressed because decades of our hard work is completely gone like it never existed. I heard from others that they also find it very hard to dial into the 30.2×753k2.7k109681
6Apr 4, '24Since I left Google, I have never met a Xoogler that doesn't miss Spanner. Spanner is clearly the real secret sauce.28.8×718k1.3k50605
7Jan 21, '23Tim Cook recommended the board to lower his salary by 40% this year. He seems to be the only top executive dealing with the bloated economy/correction the right way.28.5×710k3.2k271125
8May 8, '23Thousands of Ruby companies became Go companies in the last 10 years. We never expected Go to be relevant to the Ruby community but type safety matters to many medium to large proj24.5×610k1.3k90177
9Jul 3, '24Next Monday, I’m joining Google as a Principal Engineer to work in the intersection of LLMs and developer/researcher platforms and tools. There are large gaps at every layer, from 16.1×401k2.7k52374
10Jan 17, '25Google is a C++ shop. Most Google employees have never written code in Go. I routinely refer people from the Go community to our biggest competitors because we don’t have enough fu16×398k1.6k74589
13Sep 17, '25Google is desperate for TS developers more than ever. TS is becoming the go-to language following Python for AI developers.15.1×377k2.5k115769
14Jan 5, '23Many tech execs or startup founders don’t understand what engineers liked about working at institutions like Bell Labs, PARC, or Google. I don’t expect them to understand.11.8×295k1.4k72161
15Nov 8, '23Unpopular opinion: There hasn't been a harder time to be a software engineer. The critical pieces in everyone's stack are put together by duct tape. In contrast, it's impossible to11.7×291k1.8k156257
17Aug 23, '24Not sure if Microsoft can truly comprehend the true footprint of VSCode. VSCode could be second most successful platform they've built after Windows. The penetration level of VSCod9.1×227k2.1k112185
18May 17, '24Happy to announce that I resigned from my role at GitHub! The next few years may dramatically challenge the way we think about software engineering and tooling. I'm excited to have8.6×213k1.6k34149
19Jan 21, '23What the fuck is going on at Google? By looking my at the caliber of the people they laid off, I’m guaranteeing that they have no clue what’s going on.8.6×213k1.3k5554
20Feb 26, '25Software engineering isn’t being replaced, the job is turning into something where you delete things generated by AI.8.5×211k3.7k355266
21Jun 19, '24Kubernetes on prem.8.4×209k2.2k175174
22Oct 31, '25I'm working with one of the top 5% distributed systems engineers at Google and he claims that he knows nothing about distributed systems. I love this company.6.7×166k2.1k36296
23Nov 6, '22I'm hearing from multiple personal sources that key engineers who survived the layoffs are resigning. These key engineers are mostly old timers and probably have a lot of financial6.5×06.8k896229
24Jun 16, '23The only infrastructure product I was relying on from Google was Google Domains. I said "Not in a billion years, there would be no good rationale".6.4×159k1.3k5821
25Jan 26, '25DeepSeek codebases are clean and well authored. I learned a lot by reading their work just over the weekend. You cannot deny that they are raising the bar, and wish we focus on qua6.3×156k2.2k176495
26Mar 28, '23Since last week, I'm co-leading GitHub's Copilot and our broader AI initiatives. The problem space is full of hard problems. I'm mainly focused on building and operating our system6.1×152k1.4k3049
27Mar 29, '25Coworker: We can’t do this in C++. Coworker: We can’t do this in Go. Coworker: We need Rust. Me: No one knows how to deal with Rust or Tokio on the team. (after a few hours with an5.7×142k1.2k33161
28Aug 7, '19Nothing explains this company better than this conversation on kettle filling.5.6×05.5k1.1k94
29Mar 17, '20I'm working from home with my partner who is a C++ developer. He takes a break at every 15 mins to rant about some C++ feature.5.6×06.6k52052
30Nov 22, '23Taking vacation or faking vacation to be able to write code uninterruptedly is the unspoken truth of corporate jobs.5.2×130k1.5k12580
31Nov 7, '22In my early 20s, I thought sleeping only for four hours a day and working 80+ hours a week was fine. I have two chronic diseases and I rely on meds now. Don’t compromise your sleep4.9×04.4k1k257
32Sep 19, '24Ditto. Unpopular opinion: If you think RTO is going to fix the reason why you cannot innovate anymore, I have bad news for you. You will lose the top 5% who used to innovate by enf4.9×122k1.4k135122
33Jan 2, '20git commit -m "Changes" git commit -m "Changes" git commit -m "Changes" git commit -m "Changes" git commit -m "Changes" rm -rf .git git init git add . git commit -m "Initial commit4.9×05.2k71486
36Jun 1, '17View post on X4.2×02.4k1.8k1
37Jun 15, '21Some of the most effective senior engineers are the ones who help others by teaching how they think about problems. At some point, your biggest contribution becomes explaining your3.7×03.7k600132
38Aug 1, '22RRR is the highlight of the year 🔥3.6×04.4k43716
39Apr 24, '22Next week, I'm joining GitHub as a Distinguished Engineer. As a long time GitHub user, it's going to be a true privilege to join the team to broadly work on our products, infrastru3.6×04.7k6053
40Nov 4, '22Twitter fired engineers based on LOC they contributed in the last months. You can only make this shit up.3.5×03.9k188159
41Oct 10, '20Soon, I’m joining AWS as a Principal Engineer to work on AWS’s observability efforts. I’m excited to come back to this space and work with some of my favorite people again. I’ll al3.5×04.5k11853
42Oct 27, '20LinkedIn is basically a Twitter made for bosses.3.3×04k26444
43May 20, '24Burnout that comes from not having enough progress has always been more destructive to me than any other type of burnout.3.2×81k1.2k124189
44Jan 9, '25This month is my last at Google. In a month, I'm joining Google DeepMind. Our job will be making DeepMind's work publicly available in ways that wasn't possible before. While this 2.9×71k1.2k2880
45Jan 27, '25DeepSeek simply proved that side projects >>>>> OKRs, meetings, roadmaps, thousands of VPs in the chain.2.9×71k1.4k164147
46Aug 3, '18I am professionally programming for over 15 years. I google everything. I sometimes google things and end up reading my own article and end up copy/pasting an entire block of code 2.8×02.7k59042
47Sep 3, '21Looking for full coverage of categories of problems asked in technical interviews? Skiena for coding, Klepmann for system design.2.8×02k211845
48Nov 13, '22Many executives fail to understand why tech companies are bloated. They are bloated because everything is held together with duck tape and "task force" teams. And it's due to gross2.8×02.9k356169
49Jun 25, '20The current interview system in tech is only proven to be effective in one thing: It's good in picking who has time to get prepared for interviews.2.7×02.9k41563
50Oct 28, '18Never imagined a world where - Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems - Microsoft acquired GitHub - IBM acquired Red Hat2.7×02.3k7665
51May 24, '22Unpopular opinion: There should be a rotation program for software engineers to gain some insights on how other roles are executed so they avoid thinking software engineering is th2.6×02.9k24566
52Jul 8, '21Explicit is better than implicit. A little bit of boilerplate is better than not being able to understand your own code in a few months due to magic abstractions and syntactic suga2.4×02.4k40255
53Oct 11, '22In tech, we need a "Dependency removal engineer" role.2.4×02.6k24363
54Aug 21, '20My agent last week was telling me they don't quite understand why so many people are allergic to these tiles in San Francisco. Umm, well...2.2×02.5k26037
55Jun 30, '21GitHub Copilot but for writing docs.2.2×02.5k25730
56Apr 26, '20The goal was to abstract away the infrastructure. We instead converted every application developer into an infrastructure developer.2.2×02.1k41959
57Jan 19, '22As a senior engineer, you should learn how to be less reactionary and more strategic. Reactionary behavior creates tactical solutions. Tactical solutions create more problems. Lear2.2×02.1k330179
58Aug 24, '22Your database table schema is not an API.2.0×02k228108
59Aug 11, '21A picture is worth a thousand words. An architectural diagram is worth ten meetings.1.9×01.9k35552
60Oct 7, '20William Haskell Alsup was 67 when he learned Java for this case. His remarks on Java's design choices were legendary: "You open a folder, there is another folder, then another, the1.9×01.8k34764
61Jul 8, '20My job is literally just deleting code and stopping terrible ideas before anyone has spent any cycles on it.1.8×02.1k13636
63Oct 30, '20Failure is not an extreme case. Failure is expected. Good systems are designed with failure in mind.1.7×01.7k31969
64Sep 29, '20Time to j̶b̶d̶@̶g̶o̶o̶g̶l̶e̶.̶c̶o̶m̶ ̶ from your contacts. It’s been an extraordinary 8 years at Google but everything comes to an end. I’m thankful for every opportunity and all t1.7×02.2k3831
65Oct 1, '20Unpopular opinion: I like offices. I like being around people and being a part of the conversations. I learn a lot by overhearing.1.7×01.9k17726
66Mar 22, '22SQLite is one of the most underappreciated software out there.1.7×02k15063
67Apr 14, '20We can already name a thousand reasons why network fails but the other day I learned another reason is the SHARK BITES. Sharks are attracted to the magnetic field and think fiber o1.7×01.3k36752
68Nov 18, '22Jack Dorsey must have truly hated this company. He didn't just fail it, he let its people suffer the extreme. In my book, it is a disgrace to work for someone who has no issues des1.6×01.8k17941
69Nov 14, '22My current dream is to build a profitable company with 10 people and keep the number there.1.6×01.9k8258
70Aug 7, '20Your performance review system should never get to the point where finding a new job is easier than writing a promo package.1.5×01.6k22646
71Nov 30, '20This person was me. I declined many opportunities because I didn’t want to go through anxiety driven loops where I can’t demonstrate any of my actual skills. Interviews are the big1.5×01.7k13671
72Apr 15, '20My draft on "Things I wished developers knew about databases" is 80% complete. For the first time, I'm going to publish more than 15 articles in an article.1.5×01.3k188221
73Mar 13, '20This is not a typical WFH situation. It is WFH and - Looking after kids, elderly and others who need help. - Having limited access to services and prepared meals. - Having fewer go1.5×01.5k26826
74Feb 14, '20I wonder in what other profession that pays 6-7 figures, the hiring criteria is none of your accomplishments or experience but your performance in five whiteboard interviews.1.5×01.5k20950
75Oct 25, '202020 became the year I purchased a printer and remembered that printers are the hardest problem in computer science.1.4×01.7k9518
76Dec 17, '18Google didn't just start at a garage. Google started at one of the world's best and most well-funded computer science departments/labs.1.4×01.4k27210
77Nov 16, '20“Titles don’t matter.” says the CEO of a two-people company.1.4×01.7k9821
78Jul 9, '21Cloud bill developer edition: $𝟷𝟸𝟷𝟻𝟿.𝟸𝟿 𝙹𝚅𝙼 $𝟽𝟻𝟿𝟷.𝟷𝟸 𝙹𝚅𝙼 𝙶𝙲 $𝟷𝟸𝟿𝟽.𝟻𝟻 𝙻𝚘𝚐𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚐 $𝟻𝟻𝟼.𝟸 𝚂𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚖𝚎𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚔 $𝟷𝟷𝟷.𝟺𝟿 𝙾𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝙳1.3×01.4k18350
79Dec 1, '22I'm quite nervous about the state of tech: - The industry is overvalued and oversaturated at the same time - Revenue is made by whales where engineers don't have autonomy - Leaders1.3×01.3k122161
80Nov 18, '22I was laid off from Twitter this afternoon. In a few hours, I had a call. Elon asked me to come back to the office and fix the SLOs to always display "100%".1.3×01.5k8647
81Nov 18, '22Good to hear. Having no outages means there will never be outages, no new capacity issues, no new cascading failures, no bad pushes, nothing. We will freeze in time and my tweets w1.2×01.4k9636
82Jul 21, '22I wished management had a good understanding how costly it is to build something wrong in comparison to not building anything.1.2×01.2k16566
83Aug 25, '20I have spent two months trying to diagnose a networking issue affecting one of my machines. During that period, I haven't looked closely to DNS... It was DNS.1.1×01.4k6418
84Nov 20, '20If you are rejected, remember that the interviews are poor in measuring skills and tech couldn't come up with a better way of hiring.1.1×01.3k9234
85Jun 16, '21Working for a large company is being able to remember 100 names, 500 internal projects and 1000 acronyms.1.1×01.4k8817
86Oct 7, '20Kavanaugh just asked how Google v Oracle is different from a song copyright issue. I am somewhat nervous about this country's future if more tech cases go to SCOTUS.1.1×01.2k14229
87Oct 16, '20What it feels like switching jobs at this moment: Close the lid, pack the laptop, stick the return label, drop at the mail room, pick up another package, remove the laptop, open th1.1×01.4k7315
88Sep 20, '21Engineering is 99% managing legacy, 1% deciding on what legacy you want to have in the future.1.1×01.2k15521
89Jun 4, '21Dear CEO of Snowflake, diversity and merit are not mutually exclusive. I never want to work for a company whose leadership think people who look like me don't have merit.1.1×01.2k10447
90Oct 4, '20Before SSDs, I’d listen to the disk as a complimentary indicator of progress where progress bars fail.1.1×01.3k802
91Mar 24, '22You are never too senior to write code. I only laugh at people who believe they are too good to write any code as a software engineer.1.0×01.1k10333
92Mar 25, '22Is there a burnout caused by explaining people how computers work on a daily basis?1.0×01.2k4526
93Apr 11, '20For a while, I was thinking about putting together an article on the high level items SRE requested when Go is first being productionized at Google. Would anyone be eager to read i1.0×01.2k2723
94Oct 7, '20The day Sun Microsystems was acquired by Oracle should be a memorial day.1.0×01.2k1256
95Feb 14, '20It's painful when people assume you are a noob just because you don't look like a stereotypical programmer and watch them realize you are actually a world-class specialist by the 31.0×01.2k8225
96Jun 26, '21LOL, riding Uber without VC money is like 3x the cost of taking a cab.1.0×01.2k8522
97Mar 23, '22Next week will be my last day at work. I’m taking a break before I begin a new adventure!1.0×01.3k1120
98Oct 12, '20I was trying to make sense of a net/http behavior in Go and wondered why it's the way it is. After a quick search on the issue tracker, I found out the reality. I was the one who s0.9×01.2k3918

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