Extroverted Developer

I normally don’t do this because I don’t have much advise for how to get through the technical interviews in big tech.

However, if you are a college student trying to get an internship or full time position at one of the big tech companies I can tell you what I did that helped a ton. Assuming they are recruiting on your campus:

1. Go to their presentation
2. Stay after and help them clean up

At my school the recruiters were responsible for leaving the room as they found it, not the university staff. They offered free food (pizza) and drinks to get students to show. Which meant empty plates, cups and pizza boxes strewn about.

By staying to help them clean I got to monopolize their time to ask all of my questions. They appreciated the help. I am nearly certain that after they put my resume on top of the pile.

What the literati get wrong in their outrage over AI writing is that 50% of people are writing BELOW AVERAGE by definition. So for half the population, average is a marked improvement over what they are capable of/interested in.

SPRING! In NYC

What I’ve learned about social media over the years is that people really are just trying their worst

I’m not sure how my retirement account feels about being labeled a Trad IRA

Should I start GLP-1 when I know that the release of GLP-2 is likely right around the corner?

They had decided to abort the facts before they could grow into the truth

I ordered a new Macbook Pro M5 Pro and am so excited to be able to run local LLMs.

I’m going to install Qwen 3.5 and then tell IT to install Claude Code!

I just saved 50% on my car insurance by asking Claude CoWork to shop around for me.

I have tried to get this to happen in the past with multiple human assistant services and I was never able to get it it done.

What was great about this is not that it was “hands off” because it wasn’t entirely. It was that Claude CoWork could open all the major insurance company websites and fill them out in parallel while I answered its questions in free form text one time. It then compared them all and recommended which one.

When it had questions about coverage I just uploaded my current docs and it read them and made sure everything matched. I also uploaded my home owners insurance policies so it could determine if there was a way to save by bundling.

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