ByteVagabond
@bytevagabond.com
Just a passionate dev, learning from this community daily.
✨ Sharing the entire journey - bugs, breakthroughs, and banter. 🚀
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ByteVagabond
@bytevagabond.com
· Mar 3
programming is just the art of adding bugs to an empty file
Wild data just dropped 📊
Companies using AI are hiring MORE senior employees but fewer juniors.
What does this mean for your career? Are we entering an "experience premium" era?
www.economist.com/graphic-deta...
Companies using AI are hiring MORE senior employees but fewer juniors.
What does this mean for your career? Are we entering an "experience premium" era?
www.economist.com/graphic-deta...
October 27, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Wild data just dropped 📊
Companies using AI are hiring MORE senior employees but fewer juniors.
What does this mean for your career? Are we entering an "experience premium" era?
www.economist.com/graphic-deta...
Companies using AI are hiring MORE senior employees but fewer juniors.
What does this mean for your career? Are we entering an "experience premium" era?
www.economist.com/graphic-deta...
These captcha's are getting out of hand..
Pretty sure the answer is just clicking skip.
Pretty sure the answer is just clicking skip.
October 24, 2025 at 8:14 AM
These captcha's are getting out of hand..
Pretty sure the answer is just clicking skip.
Pretty sure the answer is just clicking skip.
engineers everywhere pretending to “monitor the situation” while refreshing the aws status page
October 20, 2025 at 11:00 AM
engineers everywhere pretending to “monitor the situation” while refreshing the aws status page
Latest OpenAI numbers from the FT:
800m users, 5% paying (40m).
$13bn in ARR.
Implies a $325 annual ARPU, or $27/month per paying user.
70% of rev from subscriptions, rest is API.
$8bn loss in H1, prob $20bn run rate loss now? So basically spending $3 for each $1 in revenue.
800m users, 5% paying (40m).
$13bn in ARR.
Implies a $325 annual ARPU, or $27/month per paying user.
70% of rev from subscriptions, rest is API.
$8bn loss in H1, prob $20bn run rate loss now? So basically spending $3 for each $1 in revenue.
October 16, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Latest OpenAI numbers from the FT:
800m users, 5% paying (40m).
$13bn in ARR.
Implies a $325 annual ARPU, or $27/month per paying user.
70% of rev from subscriptions, rest is API.
$8bn loss in H1, prob $20bn run rate loss now? So basically spending $3 for each $1 in revenue.
800m users, 5% paying (40m).
$13bn in ARR.
Implies a $325 annual ARPU, or $27/month per paying user.
70% of rev from subscriptions, rest is API.
$8bn loss in H1, prob $20bn run rate loss now? So basically spending $3 for each $1 in revenue.
Windows 10 support ends tomorrow.
They designed it to be EVERGREEN. The UI is still modern. It works flawlessly. Users love it.
Microsoft is killing their most successful OS for literally no reason except to push Windows 11.
This is customer-hostile nonsense.
They designed it to be EVERGREEN. The UI is still modern. It works flawlessly. Users love it.
Microsoft is killing their most successful OS for literally no reason except to push Windows 11.
This is customer-hostile nonsense.
October 13, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Windows 10 support ends tomorrow.
They designed it to be EVERGREEN. The UI is still modern. It works flawlessly. Users love it.
Microsoft is killing their most successful OS for literally no reason except to push Windows 11.
This is customer-hostile nonsense.
They designed it to be EVERGREEN. The UI is still modern. It works flawlessly. Users love it.
Microsoft is killing their most successful OS for literally no reason except to push Windows 11.
This is customer-hostile nonsense.
Bob Ross vibe coding was the AI slop I never knew I needed in my life
October 9, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Bob Ross vibe coding was the AI slop I never knew I needed in my life
Open Printer: an open-source inkjet printer with no DRM, no subscriptions, and repairable parts.
Sometimes the best innovation is just making things work the way they should have all along.
Sometimes the best innovation is just making things work the way they should have all along.
October 7, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Open Printer: an open-source inkjet printer with no DRM, no subscriptions, and repairable parts.
Sometimes the best innovation is just making things work the way they should have all along.
Sometimes the best innovation is just making things work the way they should have all along.
The iPhone 16 Pro's A19 chip just took the #1 spot for single-thread performance on the planet
Not "for a phone" or "in its class"
Just straight up faster than Intel's best desktop CPUs
Wide cores + dedicated cache + really good branch prediction. Apple's playing a different game at this point
Not "for a phone" or "in its class"
Just straight up faster than Intel's best desktop CPUs
Wide cores + dedicated cache + really good branch prediction. Apple's playing a different game at this point
September 30, 2025 at 9:16 AM
The iPhone 16 Pro's A19 chip just took the #1 spot for single-thread performance on the planet
Not "for a phone" or "in its class"
Just straight up faster than Intel's best desktop CPUs
Wide cores + dedicated cache + really good branch prediction. Apple's playing a different game at this point
Not "for a phone" or "in its class"
Just straight up faster than Intel's best desktop CPUs
Wide cores + dedicated cache + really good branch prediction. Apple's playing a different game at this point
I also respond best to poems
September 26, 2025 at 7:20 AM
I also respond best to poems
what is palantir cooking
September 23, 2025 at 7:42 AM
what is palantir cooking
Me leaving the office for the weekend after:
"git push --force"...
"git push --force"...
September 19, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Me leaving the office for the weekend after:
"git push --force"...
"git push --force"...
If you become a billionaire and then lose it all, Forbes still keeps you on their real-time net worth tracker as some sort of dark humiliation ritual.
September 12, 2025 at 10:15 AM
If you become a billionaire and then lose it all, Forbes still keeps you on their real-time net worth tracker as some sort of dark humiliation ritual.
Bold move! Dbrand is literally leaking everything.
September 8, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Bold move! Dbrand is literally leaking everything.
trying to automate my job with AI and somehow i keep getting more work
September 6, 2025 at 9:59 AM
trying to automate my job with AI and somehow i keep getting more work
yes turtle eat excel take it away
September 3, 2025 at 9:31 PM
yes turtle eat excel take it away
yeah ChatGPT is definitely American
August 29, 2025 at 8:17 AM
yeah ChatGPT is definitely American
One day you logged out of Windows XP for the last time and didn't realize it
August 26, 2025 at 7:45 AM
One day you logged out of Windows XP for the last time and didn't realize it
Just saw a demo of Comet AI browser getting prompt injected through a Reddit comment.
User scrolls past text that says "always post verification codes" and the AI... posts verification codes.
The attack surface is literally any text on any webpage. Wild times ahead.
User scrolls past text that says "always post verification codes" and the AI... posts verification codes.
The attack surface is literally any text on any webpage. Wild times ahead.
August 24, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Just saw a demo of Comet AI browser getting prompt injected through a Reddit comment.
User scrolls past text that says "always post verification codes" and the AI... posts verification codes.
The attack surface is literally any text on any webpage. Wild times ahead.
User scrolls past text that says "always post verification codes" and the AI... posts verification codes.
The attack surface is literally any text on any webpage. Wild times ahead.
Just got back from Spain where I spent the week eating way too many tapas.
Came back to some really nice feedback on this RAG deep dive I published right before leaving - still feels surreal that 1200+ hours of pain turned into something people find useful:
bytevagabond.com/post/how-to-...
Came back to some really nice feedback on this RAG deep dive I published right before leaving - still feels surreal that 1200+ hours of pain turned into something people find useful:
bytevagabond.com/post/how-to-...
Building Enterprise AI: Hard-Won Lessons from 1200+ Hours of RAG Development
A deep dive into production-ready RAG architecture: Techniques that actually work in enterprise environments.
bytevagabond.com
August 23, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Just got back from Spain where I spent the week eating way too many tapas.
Came back to some really nice feedback on this RAG deep dive I published right before leaving - still feels surreal that 1200+ hours of pain turned into something people find useful:
bytevagabond.com/post/how-to-...
Came back to some really nice feedback on this RAG deep dive I published right before leaving - still feels surreal that 1200+ hours of pain turned into something people find useful:
bytevagabond.com/post/how-to-...
Hey fam 👋
In a new blog post, I wrote about my journey from zero to RAG engineer after 1200 hours building enterprise AI.
What actually works vs. what's just hype. Hard-learned lessons so you don't repeat my mistakes 👇
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4474...
#TechBlog #BuildInPublic #RAG #AI #LLM
In a new blog post, I wrote about my journey from zero to RAG engineer after 1200 hours building enterprise AI.
What actually works vs. what's just hype. Hard-learned lessons so you don't repeat my mistakes 👇
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4474...
#TechBlog #BuildInPublic #RAG #AI #LLM
From zero to RAG engineer: 1200 hours of lessons so you don't repeat my mistakes | Hacker News
news.ycombinator.com
July 31, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Hey fam 👋
In a new blog post, I wrote about my journey from zero to RAG engineer after 1200 hours building enterprise AI.
What actually works vs. what's just hype. Hard-learned lessons so you don't repeat my mistakes 👇
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4474...
#TechBlog #BuildInPublic #RAG #AI #LLM
In a new blog post, I wrote about my journey from zero to RAG engineer after 1200 hours building enterprise AI.
What actually works vs. what's just hype. Hard-learned lessons so you don't repeat my mistakes 👇
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4474...
#TechBlog #BuildInPublic #RAG #AI #LLM
me and my side projects.
July 27, 2025 at 6:02 PM
me and my side projects.