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Swizec Teller

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Best selling author of Scaling Fast: Software Engineering Through The Hockeystick book ⏵ https://scalingfastbook.com prev book ⏵ https://swizec.com/senior-mindset blog ⏵ https://swizec.com

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me: Hey coding agent, do a thing!

cursor: Here's the PR boss! I tested it. Looks great. Everything works!!

me: You ... used the wrong repo. It doesn't even have the feature I asked you to change 🤦‍♂️

06.03.2026 01:01 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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A bot has discovered my 👍👎 form that just posts to my slack and is using it to ... I don't know these don't even look like real emails what are you even doing bot!?

05.03.2026 17:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Terminator 2 is the best one

04.03.2026 21:01 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Put scope on your resume | Swizec Teller Your resume titles don't matter. Just tell me what did you do.

A thread on HackerNews yesterday sniped me into explaining what I look for in resumes

Just tell me what you did. Seriously.
What did you do, for whom, what was the impact. please

swizec.com/blog/put-sco...

04.03.2026 19:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

With LLMs everyone can code like 5 juniors in a trench coat 🤩

03.03.2026 15:44 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1

Finished recording the audiobook 🥳
cant wait to hear what we got

03.03.2026 15:09 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The problem with US politics is that one party is playing to play and the other is playing to win

03.03.2026 03:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Was pitching a candidate on what my team does last week and she goes "Wow each one of those could be a whole startup!?"

not sure that's good or bad 😅
sure ain't boring tho

02.03.2026 19:37 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I end at the grocery store near my house :D

Usually I run half a block more to get 26km but my time was already so bad today that it didn’t matter

02.03.2026 00:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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So humid today felt like running through soup

01.03.2026 20:36 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Now it feels like home 🥰
Growing up *everyone* had this light switch outside the bathroom. I think my grandma still does

01.03.2026 00:39 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Fuck did I just reinvent "engineering values"??

27.02.2026 15:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Reading Scaling Fast for the audiobook, it's funny how much of my own good advice I fail to follow

Knowing what you should do is way easier than doing it in the moment. Some sort of daily reminder would be cool 🤔

27.02.2026 15:42 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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yo did google just call me old

27.02.2026 04:57 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Been thinking ... AI empowers business folk to self-serve

How are yall doing this? I can barely get mine to use a CMS

26.02.2026 13:59 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Just thought about something that bugged me about that Apple “Crush” iPad ad (from two years ago).

The whole image it conveys is that personal computers went from bicycles for the mind to trash compactors for your dreams is just so aptly describing the modern tech industry.

Carry on.

26.02.2026 02:45 👍 48 🔁 8 💬 5 📌 3

I’d probably sell more books courses and workshops if I stopped telling people there are no shortucts and you gotta do the work

25.02.2026 17:00 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Some days it flows and you record 4 chapters, other days everything sucks and you barely squeak out 1.

recording audiobooks at 6am after dealing with production issues all evening is hard, who knew

25.02.2026 15:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Dude I think my plants are fighting 😂

24.02.2026 15:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Scaling Fast: Software Engineering Through the Hockeystick The engineer's playbook for surviving and thriving in hypergrowth.

this is an excerpt from ScalingFastBook.com btw

I need a watermarky thing 🤔

23.02.2026 00:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Ran across the bridge today. Beautiful day

Strava says I haven’t done this since March 2024. Gonna hurt tomorrow lol

22.02.2026 20:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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probably the realest thing I ever wrote

22.02.2026 02:28 👍 18 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
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why vibe coding wont end saas

22.02.2026 02:18 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Isn’t this just how emoji sort alphabetically? Prob based on UTF codes

21.02.2026 20:08 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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“dense” is the best compliment you can get on 42,000 words of writing 😍
no fluff

21.02.2026 16:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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my dudes recording with an actual producer is fun!
amazing real-time direction on voice acting as yourself ❤️

20.02.2026 15:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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🥳

20.02.2026 01:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yes it visually breaks up the text but you may not need all the same signposts in audio where intonation and cadence can probably do the work

19.02.2026 21:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

In audiobooks, do you prefer narrators who read the subheadings or just pause for a beat?

19.02.2026 16:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Best part of being a manager is that I can look at an org-wide problem, say "This is dumb", and swipe the company card to make it go away.

19.02.2026 01:51 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0