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Asked a VP of Engineering how they're handling AI adoption Their response: "We're paying our best engineers 2x to build AI tooling instead of hiring as many new grads as we used to" Don't believe me? Even giants like Microsoft and Netflix are taking this approach 👇

Netflix compensation is unique because they allow employees to choose more cash compensation vs. stock x.com/deedydas/st...

How do you gain an edge if you're AWS or GCP? "Make them an offer they can't refuse" Turn the Cloud deal into a balance of trade partnership (AWS) OR Invest equity in the company (GCP) x.com/cloudventur...

AWS can buy so many Stellantis vehicles whereas other Cloud Providers have no use for it. Clear differentiation, an actual need, so Amazon Retail & Logistics can box Azure/GCP out of the account www.theverge.com/2022/1/5/22...

How do the AI influencers not get tired of testing every new single model that comes out every week? Like do people really even see the incremental improvement anymore?

Your most secure systems have one critical vulnerability: the humans who operate them. Story time: 🍿 A developer at a cybersecurity firm received what appeared to be a legitimate recruitment email from a prestigious hedge fund.

Zero Trust should be more popular than it is x.com/cloudventur...

Your most secure systems have one critical vulnerability: the humans who operate them. Story time: 🍿 A developer at a cybersecurity firm received what appeared to be a legitimate recruitment email from a prestigious hedge fund.

Benefits of being a cybersecurity company? You actually have robust threat detection and remediation so the downside was limited from the developers mistake Unfortunately for the developer, his employment was terminated.

Your most secure systems have one critical vulnerability: the humans who operate them. Story time: 🍿 A developer at a cybersecurity firm received what appeared to be a legitimate recruitment email from a prestigious hedge fund.

"We'll double your salary. We've heard amazing things about developers at your company." During the interview process, they asked him to "test his coding skills" by downloading a GitHub repository.

How one line of code can be the difference between $500k and $1m of cloud spend Erik Peterson, Founder and CTO of CloudZero, came on FinOps Weekly to host a webinar and discussion called “Million Dollar Lines of Code” Some of the key takeaways:

Give the session a listen below. It’s clear you can see Erik Peterson’s passion and enthusiasm for his field. Credit to @VictorInFinOps for hosting

How one line of code can be the difference between $500k and $1m of cloud spend Erik Peterson, Founder and CTO of CloudZero, came on FinOps Weekly to host a webinar and discussion called “Million Dollar Lines of Code” Some of the key takeaways:

✅ Every Engineering decision is a buying decision ✅ Jevons Paradox is the driver of innovation today with AI-enabled tools ✅ The ROI on Cloud makes economic sense if you use cost as a source for innovation for how you build and construct systems

Theory: once you pass a certain threshold of metrics (>250 followers, post consistency, etc.) X finally starts to promote your content into the For You page Last week was the first time a post pushed past 500 views without any retweets/quote tweets

HR is the biggest joke Applied for some roles internally, resume hadn't been reviewed in 3-4 weeks Look to message hiring manager, but only an HR contact is listed since it's a general application Is OOF for the next few days She comes back