Making Postgres 42,000x slower because I am unemployed I mean. It’s why this project exists. I wanted to learn about AWS lambda, s3 and GitHub actions. Plus Hugo. So I get it. And there’s utility in understanding how things work, always. If you can slow it down 42,000x just think about how happy your users will be when you speed it back up. Quote Citation: Jacob Jackson, “Making Postgres 42,000x slower because I am unemployed”, 2025-07-27, https://byteofdev.

A few weeks ago we upgraded a lot of the core infrastructure in our New York (okay, it’s really in New Jersey now – but don’t tell anyone) data center. We love being open with everything we do (including infrastructure), and really consider it one of the best job perks we have. So here’s how and why we upgrade a data center. My first job also included management of the server room.

I’ve seen so many bugs in real systems due to mixing up integers, strings, or UUIDs that represent different things. Meanwhile, it’s simple to set up types that entirely eliminate this class of bug, even in a language like Go that isn’t known for having a particularly powerful type system. It’s absolutely astounding to me that this technique is not broadly used. I mean I get it. compiler catch everything.

Altman illustrated the productivity revolution with a personal example. He described using an upcoming OpenAI model to complete a complex home automation programming task that would have taken him “days to do” before AI assistance. The AI completed “almost all of the work” in just “5 minutes,” he said. A year ago, “you would have paid a very high-end programmer 20 hours, 40 hours something like that to do” the same task.

And that is before considering the logistical nightmare that 24-hour exchanges would entail. The witching hours are currently when all manner of dull, but vital, post-trade processes take place, from settlement and valuation to the reconciliation of mistakes. I get it, but dark pools is where people think the action is, and for major multi-national conglomerates the sun never sets, so why should the markets? Quote Citation: The Economist, “Why 24/7 trading is a bad idea”, Jul 23rd 2025, https://www.

When announcing its layoffs this year, the Redmond, Wash.-based company insisted that it was flattening its management layers, as opposed to targeting software engineers and developers at lower levels. However, the Seattle Times reported that only around 17 percent of those laid off at the Redmond campus were designated as managers. Microsoft’s cuts also come after one of its best quarters ever, with the company announcing $26 billion in profit from January through March.

Look, the economics of this just don’t make sense and the “what trillion dollar problem will AI solve?” question takes up a lot of space in my brain. I see people talking about the limited ways in which they work with it now, and wonder what happens when the bill comes due. We wouldn’t, as a society, pay a trillion dollars to solve those problems. Not even close. While I’d say I’m still excited to talk about how AI is improving some things that I do, and especially helps me code from time to time.

As we go through this transformation together, be curious about AI, educate yourself, attend workshops and take trainings, use and experiment with AI whenever you can, participate in your team’s brainstorms to figure out how to invent for our customers more quickly and expansively, and how to get more done with scrappier teams. When I first started at Amazon in 1997 as an Assistant Product Manager, I worked on leaner teams that got a lot done quickly and where I could have substantial impact.

Google has eliminated more than one-third of its managers overseeing small teams, an executive told employees last week, as the company continues its focus on efficiencies across the organization. “Right now, we have 35% fewer managers, with fewer direct reports” than at this time a year ago, said Brian Welle, vice president of people analytics and performance, according to audio of an all-hands meeting reviewed by CNBC. This from the same company that thought it could just have CEOs all the way down and I guess many of these impacted roles were managing fewer than three people.

For example, customer service tasks in call centers and through online chat functions will become more AI dependent soon and other tasks not, McMillon said. Take humanoid robot workers. Companies have recently pitched robot workers to Walmart, McMillon said on stage. Yet “until we’re serving humanoid robots and they have the ability to spend money, we’re serving people,” he said. “We are going to put people in front of people.