[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] #  @GergelyOrosz Gergely Orosz Gergely Orosz posts on X about open ai, klarna, aws outage, servicenow the most. They currently have XXXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours. ### Engagements: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::30192824/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXXXXX +18% - X Month XXXXXXXXX +90% - X Months XXXXXXXXXX +22% - X Year XXXXXXXXXX -XX% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::30192824/posts_active)  - X Week XXX +13% - X Month XXX +47% - X Months XXXXX +35% - X Year XXXXX +7.10% ### Followers: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::30192824/followers)  - X Week XXXXXXX +0.29% - X Month XXXXXXX +1.30% - X Months XXXXXXX +7.20% - X Year XXXXXXX +12% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::30192824/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::30192824/influence) --- **Social category influence** [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) #4865 [stocks](/list/stocks) #2691 [finance](/list/finance) #3273 [exchanges](/list/exchanges) XXXX% [social networks](/list/social-networks) XXXX% [countries](/list/countries) XXXX% [cryptocurrencies](/list/cryptocurrencies) XXXX% [events](/list/events) XXXX% **Social topic influence** [open ai](/topic/open-ai) #2979, [klarna](/topic/klarna) #47, [aws outage](/topic/aws-outage) #6, [servicenow](/topic/servicenow) #90, [adobe](/topic/adobe) #407, [$googl](/topic/$googl) #294, [devs](/topic/devs) #263, [money](/topic/money) 1.92%, [microsoft](/topic/microsoft) 1.92%, [$shop](/topic/$shop) #10 **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@mitsuhiko](/creator/undefined) [@oskarmcdermott](/creator/undefined) [@igloczek](/creator/undefined) [@kanishkio](/creator/undefined) [@dwlz](/creator/undefined) [@maciejwyrodek](/creator/undefined) [@laborismoney](/creator/undefined) [@turbodad](/creator/undefined) [@oscarle_x](/creator/undefined) [@kriptokot_](/creator/undefined) [@dariogriffo](/creator/undefined) [@midito](/creator/undefined) [@linear](/creator/undefined) [@pragmaticeng](/creator/undefined) [@kentbeck](/creator/undefined) [@nicoritschel](/creator/undefined) [@hesamation](/creator/undefined) [@eddyvinckk](/creator/undefined) [@aloncarmel](/creator/undefined) [@ezekialoilgas](/creator/undefined) **Top assets mentioned** [Klarna Group (KLAR)](/topic/klarna) [ServiceNow Inc (NOW)](/topic/servicenow) [Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)](/topic/$googl) [Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)](/topic/microsoft) [Shopify Inc (SHOP)](/topic/$shop) [Coinbase Global, Inc. (COIN)](/topic/coinbase) [Spotify Technology (SPOT)](/topic/$spot) [Salesforce Inc (CRM)](/topic/salesforce) [Applovin Corporation (APP)](/topic/applovin) [Bitcoin (BTC)](/topic/bitcoin) [Nokia Corporation (NOK)](/topic/$nok) [New Relic, Inc. (NEWR)](/topic/$newr) ### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::30192824/posts) --- Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "Some of the most unexpected fallouts of an AWS outage: X. Postman stopped working: an API development tool built to be an alternative to simple tools like curl. X. Eight Sleep customers couldnt use their beds to change positions / set or keep temperature" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1980560177305878702) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-21T09:01Z 294.7K followers, 500.1K engagements "The Software Engineers Guidebook (@EngGuidebook) is now available as hardcover from Amazon. Heres me holding the first print (the proof - its nice) And its also out as an ebook on the OReilly platform. Get it here:" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1978955828074864700) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-16T22:46Z 294.7K followers, 37.4K engagements "How is it that everyone who has never written a like of code and never touched production has a take on what really caused the AWS outage -which takes go viral Never seen so many ignorant takes spreading like wildfire That it was AI outsourcing layoffs (No it wasnt either)" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1980572936080880100) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-21T09:52Z 294.7K followers, 50.8K engagements "An experienced dev is writing a book about real-world architecture learnings at a bunch of companies incl Comcast. But they are not mentioning Comcast b/c when they worked there the over-eager legal department heavily censored their public talks. What a loss for Comcast" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1977373786975457507) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-12T14:00Z 294.7K followers, 28.4K engagements "All of this is b/c any dev working at Comcast who does public speaking or writing (representing Comcast) very quickly realized they have to deal with this legal department. And so they learn to never mention Comcast in public even later. They dont want to deal w them again" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1977374622061351359) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-12T14:03Z 294.7K followers, 7589 engagements "the tragic part in all of this is Comcast seems to have a surprisingly cool set of challenges and they do hire good people But these good people are scarred for life from ever mentioning in public their good experiences even - because what if legal doesnt like it Oh well" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1977375224942281135) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-12T14:06Z 294.7K followers, 8418 engagements "So ridiculous. AWS didn't "break the entire internet." Companies that decided to build non-resilient systems depending on one single cloud region (aws-us-east-1) broke themselves. Noticed how X Google Meta Shopify etc were all fine "Breaking up" would solve nothing" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1980645159475007779) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-21T14:39Z 294.7K followers, 451.9K engagements "@kanishkio The outage COULD NOT be acknowledged because Statuspage was down for customers: they could not log in So for the outage duration they were locked out unable to update. After the outage they all added the details - but this did not update the status bar Do you get it" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1980687948908511584) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-21T17:29Z 294.7K followers, 12.6K engagements "I only recently learned that The Chainsmokers are massive tech nerds - they created the pager sounds for @incident_io" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1974042631266042299) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-03T09:23Z 294.7K followers, 337.9K engagements "Thank you for this explanation as well @HanchungLee" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1977525967968153898) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-13T00:05Z 294.7K followers, 23.6K engagements "And if investors view Klarna as an "AI company" not a "buy now pay later company" the valuation will be like 10x higher This is the game Klarna is playing it brilliantly all the while people think they figured out how to replace people with AI (which is not the case)" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1977604795906318825) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-13T05:18Z 294.7K followers, 10.5K engagements "Of course journalists take it at face value whatever a CEO says Last time Klarna said they cut XX% of customer support with a chatbot I actually tried it out and found. Klarna didn't even do what every other company did X years before with their app:" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1977605542098145786) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-13T05:21Z 294.7K followers, 10.2K engagements "Half the internet seems to be down thanks to the us-aws-east-1 outage Perplexity Amazon .com both down (just X services I tried to use) When aws-us-east-1 sneezes the whole world feels it indeed" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1980188213412241669) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-20T08:23Z 294.7K followers, 169K engagements "How is it that everyone who has never written a like of code and never touched production has a take on what really caused the AWS outage - which takes go viral Never seen so many stupid takes spreading like wildfire That it was AI outsourcing layoffs (No it wasnt either)" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1980572781856317785) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-21T09:52Z 294.7K followers, XXX engagements "I see this at so many other places that use this same product (Atlassian Statuspage) That Statuspage did not have multi-region resiliency is pretty unexpected tbh. Because incident management tools you'd expect to be more resilient" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1980687358203724067) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-21T17:27Z 294.7K followers, 8599 engagements "It's here btw: Backstage adoption feels like it really slowed down vs 2-3 years ago so this is one more reason it's hard for me to be bullish on this. Again respect the effort and it's rate to see this kind of initiative" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1981011030395523376) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-22T14:53Z 294.7K followers, 5242 engagements "OpenAI to Coinbase (who spent $65M on Datadog in a single year) "Hold my beer" OpenAI spending $150M+ per year on Datadog as per several reputable analysts. more than 2x of what Datadog spent Like Coinbase OpenAI will surely bring this level of spending on-house soon tho" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1972386369877258273) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-09-28T19:42Z 294.7K followers, 148.8K engagements "Today I learned that Pinterest sends out interview preparation advice to engineers interviewing with them. One of the resources they recommend is this one I wrote about preparing for the systems design and coding interviews:" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1973083956296798615) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-09-30T17:54Z 294.7K followers, 159.6K engagements "So @TheChainsmokers are definitely into tech. they follow tons of sw folks here Plus learned that they also invest in seed + Series A startups (e.g. Factory Bolt .new Stability AI) How cool is this Great music+tech meets (love their music loving it even more now)" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1974118450823119261) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-03T14:24Z 294.7K followers, 803K engagements "This is a reply to asking why Vercel no longer hires in Spain. It also explains why "remote" positions are often "remote in Country X" (e.g. US UK the most frequent ones.) When a company employs someone remote in Country Y they need to follow Country Y regulations" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1977796189975462119) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-13T17:58Z 294.7K followers, 288.1K engagements "PR stands for "public relations." It's a team inside a company that attempts to control the public image of a company. Amusingly at several tech companies PR teams have become "the no publicity" teams. They end up blocking devs sharing what would be super interesting stuff" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1978094202199138550) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-14T13:43Z 294.7K followers, 71.5K engagements "I heard someone describe Azure as the Boomer cloud Crude but also accurate Cannot recall any startup that is not on AWS or GCP" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1978218096121802905) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-14T21:55Z 294.7K followers, 123.2K engagements "How PR teams work: In February Seb says he'd come on my podcast. Me: sure I have questions that are timely (not anymore btw). "Talk to my PR team" Long call w PR team. PR team ghosts me. X months later I tweet about Klarna. PR team: "oh can Seb come on your podcast"" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1978470623023391148) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-15T14:38Z 294.7K followers, 113.8K engagements "People who usually really care if you work at FAANG: - Recruiters and hiring managers at FAANG hedge funds scaleups startups. and even more so at non-"tech-first" companies smaller businesses - Founders hiring at startups Hard to get in + high pedigree when job hunting" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1979531874029711603) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-18T12:55Z 294.7K followers, 117.6K engagements "THIS is something only devs will understand XX% of devs say writing code (yourself) is faster than reading (someone elses) code And its true" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1979570629478322482) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-18T15:29Z 294.7K followers, 369.1K engagements "Interesting impact of Claude Code: I dabble with frontend but not a frontend expert. I always reached for etiher some templates or something like Webflow to put together some landing page. Now I started to. ask Claude Code to build me as per my spec. A big reason for it:" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1979584756103966930) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-18T16:25Z 294.7K followers, 90.3K engagements "Am I more productive with this Well I got a landing page out with less effort than before and did not delay it as long as I would normally have And it was just. so much less mental effort on stuff that I do NOT want to learn (like FE infra setup that changes over time)" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1979594802208591882) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-18T17:05Z 294.7K followers, 11.6K engagements "Adobe pulled this scam w me in 2020 I since then tell everyone: AVOID Adobe at all costs regardless if their software is good. Its a rotten business from the top and their execs dont think scamming people is a bad thing. Never buying Adobe again (Use Canva Affinity etc)" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1980168560917061879) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-20T07:05Z 294.7K followers, 169.7K engagements "Darn so teams that do have a separate service to update service status cannot update to indicate an outage due to. this outage locking them out Suggests Statuspage itself needs reliablity improvements" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1980197962728063306) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-20T09:02Z 294.7K followers, 19K engagements "The problem with speculation like this is how outages (or lack of) don't seem to have much correlation w HC: - Meta's greatest-ever outage in 2021 happened during strong hiring; zero layoffs for a decade before - X reduced headcount by 90%: outages don't feel more frequent tho" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1980547087889756427) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-21T08:09Z 294.7K followers, 59.2K engagements "Two types of tech companies: X. Out in the public. Eng leaders are in the open; know the details; during big events (good or bad) you hear from them. Good example: Vercel X. In the shadows. What engineering leaders Social media usage is probably banned. Good example: Amazon" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1980585656092119396) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-21T10:43Z 294.7K followers, 71K engagements "#2 companies think they are playing it safe. and they are probably right. for a while Until we see a new generation of software engineers choose their first-ever vendor based on whether or not they like the company. Hard to like a faceless company of course" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1980585979724591392) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-21T10:44Z 294.7K followers, 8975 engagements "@midito so then don't complain if a cloud region goes down the very few times every few years most regions end up going down you get what you pay for - and live with the risks you accept If you don't have money to invest in XXXXX% resilliency don't complain if you don't get it" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1980646733681197416) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-21T14:45Z 294.7K followers, 12.2K engagements "Welcome to the new tech job market that increasingly represents other non-tech white collar job markets: X. Referrals are the best way to get a job X. References greatly matter X. Pedigree (past job college etc) becomes more important X. Background checks more thorough" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1980990082699194523) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-22T13:30Z 294.7K followers, 144.8K engagements "I have yet to see an successful example when a non-devtools company launches a devtools product Spotify is trying just this: offering a more advanced hosted version of Backstage A for effort but given this is not Spotify's focus (at all) if this could/would work this time" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1981010748286579027) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-22T14:52Z 294.7K followers, 14.6K engagements "The #1 criteria for my browser is that I trust it and its secure. Its logged into my email Stripe account stores my passwords and credit cards. A browser is useful if it does all these. These AI browsers are interesting but with prompt injections no way I trust them" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1981077205502325181) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-22T19:16Z 294.7K followers, 51.8K engagements "Claude Code is scary good. not just for coding My Finder kept freezing after it grew to 8GB in size. I had no idea why. Restarting did not help. Turning off Spotlight indexing didn't help. So I turned to Claude Code. and XX iterations+30 minutes later it found the issue:" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1972038787288154296) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-09-27T20:41Z 294.6K followers, 304.2K engagements "And Coinbase spending that much on Datadog was. rational Knowing the context they operated in and the growth they saw. When growth slowed *then* they built tooling to move off Datadog Same with OpenAI. When growing focus on growing not saving" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1972387301541212342) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-09-28T19:45Z 294.7K followers, 17.1K engagements "Stripe has always started from consumer use cases (B2C) while most payment platforms go after businesses (B2B like Adyen.) Stripe also added AI support super early. Now every single B2C AI startup uses Stripe for payments. And most B2B ones as well. Huge play by Stripe" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1972733393441026221) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-09-29T18:41Z 294.6K followers, 37.9K engagements "2. Game that has no online functionality and one I paid to remove ads wont start without an internet connection / in flight mode X. In-app predatory payments with dark patterns everywhere Again Im pretty sure its because of loading ads in the background Incredible that its not possible to pay for a game with no ads no in-app predatory stuff save for few exceptions (eg Apple Arcade)" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1976211923180925207) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-09T09:03Z 294.6K followers, 17.3K engagements "Thinking about why this is the status quo: this hits the nail on the head. This predatory app my kid was begging to get (and looked child friendly) Showed via an as (AppLovin or Unity Ads if I recall). Good and honest games have an ongoing discoverability issue" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1976228436550222070) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-09T10:09Z 294.6K followers, 20K engagements "When I worked at Microsoft it was mandatory for all employees to watch this video about how a former employee made $400K trading company stock w indsider info. Got X years of jail. The message was to never inside trade company stock. Crypto is not company stock though is it" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1976838716527382668) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-11T02:34Z 294.4K followers, 243.6K engagements "Let's assume that inside trading on Bitcoin long/shorts remains legal: because Bitcoin is not regulated. And insiders figure out what major announcements move Bitcoin up or down. What happens Insiders win big time non-insiders lose and learn to retreat from BTC markets Or they stay despite growing losses to insiders" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1976839744819806551) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-11T02:38Z 294.4K followers, 15.8K engagements "Also when I worked at JP Morgan you had to get permission to buy OR sell ANY company stock. I had $3000 worth of Nokia stock before joined JPM. Needed to submit a form to allow selling; wait days; then got OK and THEN I could sell it (they made sure I didn't have insider info)" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1976843613482238342) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-11T02:53Z 294.4K followers, 12.7K engagements "At JP Morgan you also had to declare any and all side projects you built on the side and get permission for it. I went rogue when building Cocktail Flow and didn't tell JPM. (No really I stressed about it and it was one more push to leave when the time came. Too much for me)" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1976844598321590424) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-11T02:57Z 294.4K followers, 17.8K engagements "If youre wondering why theres nonstop talk on AI across tech: its because this technology is adopted across the industry several times faster than the internet smartphones or cloud took to get virtually everywhere. Heres one illustration (ChatGPT is a subset of AI ofc)" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1977101348698210384) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-11T19:57Z 294.6K followers, 56.8K engagements "When some of the most respected and rational software engineers in the industry (those building standout software for 20+ years) adopt AI coding tools b/c it works for them: It suggests these tools are good enough and here to stay. (I am now using them daily for coding btw)" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1977106385944055856) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-11T20:17Z 294.6K followers, 72.3K engagements "The stories are we had this really interesting challenge at Comcast. At first we failed trying to build A. Then we succeeded with B and it was a smashing success. But all you will read is we had this interesting challenge at a telecommunications company. Then we" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1977374191599903167) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-12T14:01Z 294.5K followers, 7198 engagements "I still think about when New Relic wrote a blog arguing that customers should leave vendors acquired by private equity (PE) b/c prices will go up+quality will go down. It was a stab at Sumo Logic just bought by PE. X months later New Relic got bought by PE.and deleted the blog" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1977844004910952544) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-13T21:08Z 294.6K followers, 54.7K engagements "There's always this tension between engineers and execs on buy vs build. Engineer: "no vendor does what we need let's just build it." Exec: "it's a poor ROI let's buy something and work around it." I have a feeling these AI tools might tilt the balance back to devs building" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1977849801896034514) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-13T21:31Z 294.6K followers, 23.8K engagements "@nicoritschel that's a low bar given you simply cannot name a vendor more expensive than Datadog ha Every other vendor's one selling point out of several is how they are cheaper than DD" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1977952215836008461) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-14T04:18Z 294.6K followers, 1330 engagements "This is so typical of eng leadership coming from Big Tech: "The whole senior engineering leadership came from Amazon where they were used to each team owning a distinct service. They tried to apply that model directly." Copying *exactly* what they are used to. Though (cont'd)" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1978090136484159537) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-14T13:26Z 294.6K followers, 140.1K engagements "It's also a reason that if you can hire into a startup from Google Meta Apple and Amazon: the Amazon eng leader hire is by far the most likely to "hit the ground running" and help the startup. Those coming from the other X will be disoriented for a while in a smaller place" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1978091121948455241) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-14T13:30Z 294.4K followers, 14.2K engagements "In the replies some people bring up OpenAI as a counterxample but they would have not gotten investment from MS if they didnt run on Azure Doesnt look exactly voluntary (and now they are building their own cloud)" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1978221647535428063) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-14T22:09Z 294.4K followers, 29.7K engagements "When is Python Rust or Go a great choice as a language - especially if deciding which one to build an AI startup with Here's @mitsuhiko comparing the three languages. Full video: (YouTube) (Spotify)" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1978301390540734658) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-15T03:26Z 294.6K followers, 14.7K engagements "Traditional PR teams like this should be called "no publicity" teams They successfully blocked what a CEO wanted to do and would have make sense (talk about AI honestly when I still had questions) to me not willing to talk to anyone at Klarna PR" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1978471399808545211) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-15T14:41Z 294.5K followers, 14.1K engagements "Anyway Klarna keeps playing the traditional media that just takes over whatever they say. "We're firing because of AI" *6 months later) "Hmm firing because of AI didn't work - we're hiring now" (6 months later) "We're firing because of AI"" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1978473768134775061) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-15T14:51Z 294.5K followers, 14.5K engagements "Making an agentic coding tool free - with ads - is a clever idea for two reasons: X. Its really hard to reach devs so companies will pay a LOT to do so via the command line (and have the agent install+use their packages) X. Paying as before means no ads. More options" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1978583028797444403) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-15T22:05Z 294.6K followers, 80.1K engagements "The last days talked with engineers and eng managers / tech leads inside Cursor OpenAI Anthropic in their HQ. The daily tooling they use to build sw is so different to most of the industry (outside AI startups) But what a great engineer is feels like it remains unchanged" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1978621549595762740) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-16T00:38Z 294.5K followers, 68.1K engagements "From a dev at Big Tech: X devs across X teams are stuck for a month on a build problem thats caused by connections resetting between two gateways and a messaging queue. I cannot solve it because Im blocked access to the other X teams systems. I cannot see AI solving this" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1979230071278731532) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-17T16:56Z 294.5K followers, 48.2K engagements "Always a good day to hang out with @KentBeck" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1979419294271442948) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-18T05:28Z 294.5K followers, 13.8K engagements "If you are someone who forms their opinion on AI tools purely based on latest podcast soundbites w one or two well-known ppl in the field: Consider that you should get more hands-on with it and make up *your own* view about them. Easier than it seems and not enough ppl do it" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1979579731436765294) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-18T16:06Z 294.5K followers, 16K engagements "Of course its more work and requires critical thinking At least on social media I find critical thinking to be less discoverable so many taking over what someone else with status says" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1979579982281425394) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-18T16:07Z 294.5K followers, 6693 engagements "Both very ambitious but no one at Anthropic said when we get to AGI and several devs at OpenAI did who I talked with (but not all)" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1979599287203062188) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-18T17:23Z 294.6K followers, 8738 engagements "@aloncarmel I never liked them. UX never clean thanks to needing to support a bunch of stuff. I just like to easily find the code" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1979631484207243453) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-18T19:31Z 294.5K followers, 2841 engagements "Theres ongoing Adobe hate because they keep scamming their own customers with the if you cancel now we charge you hundreds of dollars as early termination fee and you lose access immediately. No other SaaS does this. FTC is suing them but Adobe keeps doing it. They scammed me in 2020 and I bring it up since Cannot talk for others" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1980569715211653435) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-21T09:39Z 294.6K followers, XXX engagements "Klarna was the company that went all-on replacing customer support with an AI bot and went on to brag about the cost savings. Now they are reversing course. Easy to see more companies blindly replacing quality customer support with a worse AI implementation will follow" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1892196257608687842) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-02-19T12:55Z 294.6K followers, 620.4K engagements "Ebay bought Skype for $2.6B in 2005; could not figure out what to do with it. Private Equity (Silverlake) then bought it from them for $1.9B in 2009 invested heavily and got the product to grow a lot more and sold it to Microsoft for $8.5B in 2011. An example of PE working out" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1948731968339730754) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-07-25T13:08Z 294.6K followers, 37.2K engagements "One of the most common uses of "vibe coding" I'm hearing from professional devs outside of prototyping: Building internal-only tools Where you don't need to worry about security scalability malicious usage. E.g. data visualization / data viewer tools. Used a lot for this" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1967968002844025232) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-09-16T15:05Z 294.6K followers, 84.3K engagements "What is ServiceNow and what companies use it in relation to software engineering And to do what (It showed up in The Pragmatic Engineer 2025 survey with similar numbers rif mentions as Backstage and even after reading ServiceNows About page I remain utterly confused.)" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1977521347581661545) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-12T23:46Z 294.6K followers, 78.9K engagements "And how is it a $200B company when its hard to understand what they do Im utterly confused Am I being thick or is ServiceNow as opaque as it looks" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1977521660057321601) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-12T23:47Z 294.6K followers, 11.6K engagements "@EzekialOilGas This is as helpful as the About page at ServiceNow not at all" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1977522387840385137) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-12T23:50Z 294.6K followers, 4581 engagements "It bothers me to no extent that the media plays how Klarna whistles Klarna wants to the headlines to say "AI-enabled Klarna" It would have halved its workforce without AI because it overhired 2x in 2020-21 and never corrected till now But this is how they get front pages" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1977604563025924097) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-13T05:17Z 294.6K followers, 53.2K engagements "So consider that if you changed your view fully after listening to the Andrej Karpathy interview or Richard Sutton interview: you probably are either hands-off with it or not a critical thinker Whichever it is: fix it. Else youll swim with the crowd influenced only by others" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1979580494603080151) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-18T16:09Z 294.7K followers, 6408 engagements "@Igloczek in the end whatever works for you I went through great pain to use what was a subpar product at the time (Affinity - today it's much better) just because I refuse to give any money to a company that I feel did business dirty with me" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1980293443718152249) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-20T15:22Z 294.6K followers, 1774 engagements "@darshitpp If youre a software engineer using critical thinking is a baseline skill Trusting a top upvoted Reddit comment is the opposite of this No AWS is not outsourcing resilience or operations. Its the stupidest thing I heard" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1980571783515500801) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-21T09:48Z 294.6K followers, XXX engagements "Amusing how XX% of people using LLMs forget how these things work: They are advanced probability machines. They generate the next most likely token (word) based in the input and their training. Under the hood its a giant matrix multiplication that has eerily good output" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1963599656308674640) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-09-04T13:46Z 294.7K followers, 1.2M engagements "a big reason for me using WYSIWG interfaces like Webflow in the past: modifying it is a pain just from code; running my web server; checking it etc But now Claude or any agent can modify it And imagine when it will launch the browser to view it as well" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1979585003454636177) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-18T16:26Z 294.7K followers, 13.4K engagements "And yes Adobe is turning its biggest supporters (its own paying customers) into its biggest haters who openly tell everyone to avoid the company because they scam their own customers Even the FTC is suing Adobe for this practice How you slowly kill a company" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1980169585375817813) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-20T07:09Z 294.7K followers, 17.8K engagements "@whoiskatrin How did you miss to never ever buy Adobe lol Been warning people for years. There are alternatives and no other one pulls this scam. Only SaaS that ever fooled me and I hated the feeling" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1980170127086965137) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-20T07:12Z 294.7K followers, 4009 engagements "Seeing a trend of anon accounts posting what very clearly feels like AI replies I have started to block these accounts whenever I see one Another example how AI going mainstream results in less trust and a worse social media experience" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1980212408674345361) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-20T10:00Z 294.7K followers, 22.3K engagements "Each and every infra platform service and SaaS that had no issues during this AWS outage has bragging rights Even more so if they do have an AWS dependency but manage to mitigate or fall over (aka prepared for this)" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1980312505080771068) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-20T16:37Z 294.7K followers, 53.7K engagements "One example of a company that doesnt allow employees to shine (regardless of how much standout work the do): Apple The most youll see from an Apple engineer is a short note on WWDC saying I worked on it. Never seen more. OpenAI is successfully poaching from Apple btw" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1974053879747670088) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-03T10:08Z 294.7K followers, 43.5K engagements "So one impression from talking with a few engineers at Anthropic and at OpenAI: OpenAI feels like internally still more focusing on getting to AGI in guiding principle + goal Anthropic feels more feet on the ground improving one step after the other. Just the vibes I felt" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1979599065701876113) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-18T17:22Z 294.7K followers, 28.2K engagements "My week in SF in stickers from the offices that do have them It was great to stop at Cursor OpenAI Anthropic Modular AI Factory AI and see whats cooking from the inside Its very energizing exciting and SF is back (probably never left)" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1979602066445357300) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-18T17:34Z 294.7K followers, 11.8K engagements "Oh great my own newsletter is down because Substack is down because AWS is down Same with all Substacks. My blog running on Ghost is up tho (this blog:" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1980193284078419977) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-20T08:44Z 294.7K followers, 17.5K engagements "I cannot recall this ever happening: Amazon's flagship property (and cash cow) Amazon .com having issues throughout the day due to AWS infra problems. It's easy to criticize Google for not building Google Search on GCP - but as a result Search has no GCP dependencies" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1980372435489935623) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-20T20:35Z 294.7K followers, 59.4K engagements "I really hate how ignorant takes like this spread far and wide No the AWS outage is not caused by AI - anyone who worked at places like Amazon will know how outages like this happened before AI and its almost always a few unlucky + unforeseen things happening the same time" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1980381693136847258) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-20T21:12Z 294.7K followers, 130.8K engagements "@Edmond_J_ I have no affiliation with Canva: I am a customer and use it to create simple graphics. I dont think its a replacement. Affinity (also no affiliation) might have something but I never need advanced stuff (Im no designer) Affinity is pay once not a SaaS" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1980561738673070220) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-21T09:08Z 294.7K followers, XXX engagements "@maciejwyrodek Shopify has no own cloud and was up. Vercel runs on AWS but managed to stay up. This is not about cloud agonistic: one (large) region went down inside AWS - any business making themselves multi-region were fine" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1980681533242400884) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-21T17:04Z 294.7K followers, 12.4K engagements "A weird outcome of yesterday's AWS outage: Atlassian's Status Page was down (customers could not record outages.) So today dashboards for companies that were down are green. because they could not record the downtime Substack one example (the site was down hard)" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1980687044222570847) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-21T17:26Z 294.7K followers, 43K engagements "For any and all AI CLI coding tools Claude Code is the bar to beat. If it feels more sluggish or not as good in how it works: it really needs to bring in features Claude Code doesn't have else it just won't feel competitive. And this is great for competition" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1981020657967128751) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-22T15:31Z 294.7K followers, 14.9K engagements "This is the category where Ill start to be interested if X. I see proof from security researchers that prompt injections is a solved issue X. Execs of these companies prove they use these browsers w all their sensitive workflows (email social banking etc etc) for months exclusively" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1981079113528918075) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-22T19:24Z 294.7K followers, 5912 engagements "This is absolutely true if you want to experiment and the smart way to go about it. But its a sandbox in this case not a full-blown high-trust browser like eg Chrome Firefox etc" [X Link](https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1981079413073612886) [@GergelyOrosz](/creator/x/GergelyOrosz) 2025-10-22T19:25Z 294.7K followers, 13.9K engagements
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Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @mitsuhiko @oskarmcdermott @igloczek @kanishkio @dwlz @maciejwyrodek @laborismoney @turbodad @oscarle_x @kriptokot_ @dariogriffo @midito @linear @pragmaticeng @kentbeck @nicoritschel @hesamation @eddyvinckk @aloncarmel @ezekialoilgas
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"Some of the most unexpected fallouts of an AWS outage: X. Postman stopped working: an API development tool built to be an alternative to simple tools like curl. X. Eight Sleep customers couldnt use their beds to change positions / set or keep temperature"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-21T09:01Z 294.7K followers, 500.1K engagements
"The Software Engineers Guidebook (@EngGuidebook) is now available as hardcover from Amazon. Heres me holding the first print (the proof - its nice) And its also out as an ebook on the OReilly platform. Get it here:"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-16T22:46Z 294.7K followers, 37.4K engagements
"How is it that everyone who has never written a like of code and never touched production has a take on what really caused the AWS outage -which takes go viral Never seen so many ignorant takes spreading like wildfire That it was AI outsourcing layoffs (No it wasnt either)"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-21T09:52Z 294.7K followers, 50.8K engagements
"An experienced dev is writing a book about real-world architecture learnings at a bunch of companies incl Comcast. But they are not mentioning Comcast b/c when they worked there the over-eager legal department heavily censored their public talks. What a loss for Comcast"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-12T14:00Z 294.7K followers, 28.4K engagements
"All of this is b/c any dev working at Comcast who does public speaking or writing (representing Comcast) very quickly realized they have to deal with this legal department. And so they learn to never mention Comcast in public even later. They dont want to deal w them again"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-12T14:03Z 294.7K followers, 7589 engagements
"the tragic part in all of this is Comcast seems to have a surprisingly cool set of challenges and they do hire good people But these good people are scarred for life from ever mentioning in public their good experiences even - because what if legal doesnt like it Oh well"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-12T14:06Z 294.7K followers, 8418 engagements
"So ridiculous. AWS didn't "break the entire internet." Companies that decided to build non-resilient systems depending on one single cloud region (aws-us-east-1) broke themselves. Noticed how X Google Meta Shopify etc were all fine "Breaking up" would solve nothing"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-21T14:39Z 294.7K followers, 451.9K engagements
"@kanishkio The outage COULD NOT be acknowledged because Statuspage was down for customers: they could not log in So for the outage duration they were locked out unable to update. After the outage they all added the details - but this did not update the status bar Do you get it"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-21T17:29Z 294.7K followers, 12.6K engagements
"I only recently learned that The Chainsmokers are massive tech nerds - they created the pager sounds for @incident_io"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-03T09:23Z 294.7K followers, 337.9K engagements
"Thank you for this explanation as well @HanchungLee"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-13T00:05Z 294.7K followers, 23.6K engagements
"And if investors view Klarna as an "AI company" not a "buy now pay later company" the valuation will be like 10x higher This is the game Klarna is playing it brilliantly all the while people think they figured out how to replace people with AI (which is not the case)"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-13T05:18Z 294.7K followers, 10.5K engagements
"Of course journalists take it at face value whatever a CEO says Last time Klarna said they cut XX% of customer support with a chatbot I actually tried it out and found. Klarna didn't even do what every other company did X years before with their app:"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-13T05:21Z 294.7K followers, 10.2K engagements
"Half the internet seems to be down thanks to the us-aws-east-1 outage Perplexity Amazon .com both down (just X services I tried to use) When aws-us-east-1 sneezes the whole world feels it indeed"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-20T08:23Z 294.7K followers, 169K engagements
"How is it that everyone who has never written a like of code and never touched production has a take on what really caused the AWS outage - which takes go viral Never seen so many stupid takes spreading like wildfire That it was AI outsourcing layoffs (No it wasnt either)"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-21T09:52Z 294.7K followers, XXX engagements
"I see this at so many other places that use this same product (Atlassian Statuspage) That Statuspage did not have multi-region resiliency is pretty unexpected tbh. Because incident management tools you'd expect to be more resilient"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-21T17:27Z 294.7K followers, 8599 engagements
"It's here btw: Backstage adoption feels like it really slowed down vs 2-3 years ago so this is one more reason it's hard for me to be bullish on this. Again respect the effort and it's rate to see this kind of initiative"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-22T14:53Z 294.7K followers, 5242 engagements
"OpenAI to Coinbase (who spent $65M on Datadog in a single year) "Hold my beer" OpenAI spending $150M+ per year on Datadog as per several reputable analysts. more than 2x of what Datadog spent Like Coinbase OpenAI will surely bring this level of spending on-house soon tho"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-09-28T19:42Z 294.7K followers, 148.8K engagements
"Today I learned that Pinterest sends out interview preparation advice to engineers interviewing with them. One of the resources they recommend is this one I wrote about preparing for the systems design and coding interviews:"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-09-30T17:54Z 294.7K followers, 159.6K engagements
"So @TheChainsmokers are definitely into tech. they follow tons of sw folks here Plus learned that they also invest in seed + Series A startups (e.g. Factory Bolt .new Stability AI) How cool is this Great music+tech meets (love their music loving it even more now)"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-03T14:24Z 294.7K followers, 803K engagements
"This is a reply to asking why Vercel no longer hires in Spain. It also explains why "remote" positions are often "remote in Country X" (e.g. US UK the most frequent ones.) When a company employs someone remote in Country Y they need to follow Country Y regulations"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-13T17:58Z 294.7K followers, 288.1K engagements
"PR stands for "public relations." It's a team inside a company that attempts to control the public image of a company. Amusingly at several tech companies PR teams have become "the no publicity" teams. They end up blocking devs sharing what would be super interesting stuff"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-14T13:43Z 294.7K followers, 71.5K engagements
"I heard someone describe Azure as the Boomer cloud Crude but also accurate Cannot recall any startup that is not on AWS or GCP"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-14T21:55Z 294.7K followers, 123.2K engagements
"How PR teams work: In February Seb says he'd come on my podcast. Me: sure I have questions that are timely (not anymore btw). "Talk to my PR team" Long call w PR team. PR team ghosts me. X months later I tweet about Klarna. PR team: "oh can Seb come on your podcast""
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-15T14:38Z 294.7K followers, 113.8K engagements
"People who usually really care if you work at FAANG: - Recruiters and hiring managers at FAANG hedge funds scaleups startups. and even more so at non-"tech-first" companies smaller businesses - Founders hiring at startups Hard to get in + high pedigree when job hunting"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-18T12:55Z 294.7K followers, 117.6K engagements
"THIS is something only devs will understand XX% of devs say writing code (yourself) is faster than reading (someone elses) code And its true"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-18T15:29Z 294.7K followers, 369.1K engagements
"Interesting impact of Claude Code: I dabble with frontend but not a frontend expert. I always reached for etiher some templates or something like Webflow to put together some landing page. Now I started to. ask Claude Code to build me as per my spec. A big reason for it:"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-18T16:25Z 294.7K followers, 90.3K engagements
"Am I more productive with this Well I got a landing page out with less effort than before and did not delay it as long as I would normally have And it was just. so much less mental effort on stuff that I do NOT want to learn (like FE infra setup that changes over time)"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-18T17:05Z 294.7K followers, 11.6K engagements
"Adobe pulled this scam w me in 2020 I since then tell everyone: AVOID Adobe at all costs regardless if their software is good. Its a rotten business from the top and their execs dont think scamming people is a bad thing. Never buying Adobe again (Use Canva Affinity etc)"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-20T07:05Z 294.7K followers, 169.7K engagements
"Darn so teams that do have a separate service to update service status cannot update to indicate an outage due to. this outage locking them out Suggests Statuspage itself needs reliablity improvements"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-20T09:02Z 294.7K followers, 19K engagements
"The problem with speculation like this is how outages (or lack of) don't seem to have much correlation w HC: - Meta's greatest-ever outage in 2021 happened during strong hiring; zero layoffs for a decade before - X reduced headcount by 90%: outages don't feel more frequent tho"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-21T08:09Z 294.7K followers, 59.2K engagements
"Two types of tech companies: X. Out in the public. Eng leaders are in the open; know the details; during big events (good or bad) you hear from them. Good example: Vercel X. In the shadows. What engineering leaders Social media usage is probably banned. Good example: Amazon"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-21T10:43Z 294.7K followers, 71K engagements
"#2 companies think they are playing it safe. and they are probably right. for a while Until we see a new generation of software engineers choose their first-ever vendor based on whether or not they like the company. Hard to like a faceless company of course"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-21T10:44Z 294.7K followers, 8975 engagements
"@midito so then don't complain if a cloud region goes down the very few times every few years most regions end up going down you get what you pay for - and live with the risks you accept If you don't have money to invest in XXXXX% resilliency don't complain if you don't get it"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-21T14:45Z 294.7K followers, 12.2K engagements
"Welcome to the new tech job market that increasingly represents other non-tech white collar job markets: X. Referrals are the best way to get a job X. References greatly matter X. Pedigree (past job college etc) becomes more important X. Background checks more thorough"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-22T13:30Z 294.7K followers, 144.8K engagements
"I have yet to see an successful example when a non-devtools company launches a devtools product Spotify is trying just this: offering a more advanced hosted version of Backstage A for effort but given this is not Spotify's focus (at all) if this could/would work this time"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-22T14:52Z 294.7K followers, 14.6K engagements
"The #1 criteria for my browser is that I trust it and its secure. Its logged into my email Stripe account stores my passwords and credit cards. A browser is useful if it does all these. These AI browsers are interesting but with prompt injections no way I trust them"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-22T19:16Z 294.7K followers, 51.8K engagements
"Claude Code is scary good. not just for coding My Finder kept freezing after it grew to 8GB in size. I had no idea why. Restarting did not help. Turning off Spotlight indexing didn't help. So I turned to Claude Code. and XX iterations+30 minutes later it found the issue:"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-09-27T20:41Z 294.6K followers, 304.2K engagements
"And Coinbase spending that much on Datadog was. rational Knowing the context they operated in and the growth they saw. When growth slowed then they built tooling to move off Datadog Same with OpenAI. When growing focus on growing not saving"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-09-28T19:45Z 294.7K followers, 17.1K engagements
"Stripe has always started from consumer use cases (B2C) while most payment platforms go after businesses (B2B like Adyen.) Stripe also added AI support super early. Now every single B2C AI startup uses Stripe for payments. And most B2B ones as well. Huge play by Stripe"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-09-29T18:41Z 294.6K followers, 37.9K engagements
"2. Game that has no online functionality and one I paid to remove ads wont start without an internet connection / in flight mode X. In-app predatory payments with dark patterns everywhere Again Im pretty sure its because of loading ads in the background Incredible that its not possible to pay for a game with no ads no in-app predatory stuff save for few exceptions (eg Apple Arcade)"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-09T09:03Z 294.6K followers, 17.3K engagements
"Thinking about why this is the status quo: this hits the nail on the head. This predatory app my kid was begging to get (and looked child friendly) Showed via an as (AppLovin or Unity Ads if I recall). Good and honest games have an ongoing discoverability issue"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-09T10:09Z 294.6K followers, 20K engagements
"When I worked at Microsoft it was mandatory for all employees to watch this video about how a former employee made $400K trading company stock w indsider info. Got X years of jail. The message was to never inside trade company stock. Crypto is not company stock though is it"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-11T02:34Z 294.4K followers, 243.6K engagements
"Let's assume that inside trading on Bitcoin long/shorts remains legal: because Bitcoin is not regulated. And insiders figure out what major announcements move Bitcoin up or down. What happens Insiders win big time non-insiders lose and learn to retreat from BTC markets Or they stay despite growing losses to insiders"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-11T02:38Z 294.4K followers, 15.8K engagements
"Also when I worked at JP Morgan you had to get permission to buy OR sell ANY company stock. I had $3000 worth of Nokia stock before joined JPM. Needed to submit a form to allow selling; wait days; then got OK and THEN I could sell it (they made sure I didn't have insider info)"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-11T02:53Z 294.4K followers, 12.7K engagements
"At JP Morgan you also had to declare any and all side projects you built on the side and get permission for it. I went rogue when building Cocktail Flow and didn't tell JPM. (No really I stressed about it and it was one more push to leave when the time came. Too much for me)"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-11T02:57Z 294.4K followers, 17.8K engagements
"If youre wondering why theres nonstop talk on AI across tech: its because this technology is adopted across the industry several times faster than the internet smartphones or cloud took to get virtually everywhere. Heres one illustration (ChatGPT is a subset of AI ofc)"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-11T19:57Z 294.6K followers, 56.8K engagements
"When some of the most respected and rational software engineers in the industry (those building standout software for 20+ years) adopt AI coding tools b/c it works for them: It suggests these tools are good enough and here to stay. (I am now using them daily for coding btw)"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-11T20:17Z 294.6K followers, 72.3K engagements
"The stories are we had this really interesting challenge at Comcast. At first we failed trying to build A. Then we succeeded with B and it was a smashing success. But all you will read is we had this interesting challenge at a telecommunications company. Then we"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-12T14:01Z 294.5K followers, 7198 engagements
"I still think about when New Relic wrote a blog arguing that customers should leave vendors acquired by private equity (PE) b/c prices will go up+quality will go down. It was a stab at Sumo Logic just bought by PE. X months later New Relic got bought by PE.and deleted the blog"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-13T21:08Z 294.6K followers, 54.7K engagements
"There's always this tension between engineers and execs on buy vs build. Engineer: "no vendor does what we need let's just build it." Exec: "it's a poor ROI let's buy something and work around it." I have a feeling these AI tools might tilt the balance back to devs building"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-13T21:31Z 294.6K followers, 23.8K engagements
"@nicoritschel that's a low bar given you simply cannot name a vendor more expensive than Datadog ha Every other vendor's one selling point out of several is how they are cheaper than DD"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-14T04:18Z 294.6K followers, 1330 engagements
"This is so typical of eng leadership coming from Big Tech: "The whole senior engineering leadership came from Amazon where they were used to each team owning a distinct service. They tried to apply that model directly." Copying exactly what they are used to. Though (cont'd)"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-14T13:26Z 294.6K followers, 140.1K engagements
"It's also a reason that if you can hire into a startup from Google Meta Apple and Amazon: the Amazon eng leader hire is by far the most likely to "hit the ground running" and help the startup. Those coming from the other X will be disoriented for a while in a smaller place"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-14T13:30Z 294.4K followers, 14.2K engagements
"In the replies some people bring up OpenAI as a counterxample but they would have not gotten investment from MS if they didnt run on Azure Doesnt look exactly voluntary (and now they are building their own cloud)"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-14T22:09Z 294.4K followers, 29.7K engagements
"When is Python Rust or Go a great choice as a language - especially if deciding which one to build an AI startup with Here's @mitsuhiko comparing the three languages. Full video: (YouTube) (Spotify)"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-15T03:26Z 294.6K followers, 14.7K engagements
"Traditional PR teams like this should be called "no publicity" teams They successfully blocked what a CEO wanted to do and would have make sense (talk about AI honestly when I still had questions) to me not willing to talk to anyone at Klarna PR"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-15T14:41Z 294.5K followers, 14.1K engagements
"Anyway Klarna keeps playing the traditional media that just takes over whatever they say. "We're firing because of AI" *6 months later) "Hmm firing because of AI didn't work - we're hiring now" (6 months later) "We're firing because of AI""
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-15T14:51Z 294.5K followers, 14.5K engagements
"Making an agentic coding tool free - with ads - is a clever idea for two reasons: X. Its really hard to reach devs so companies will pay a LOT to do so via the command line (and have the agent install+use their packages) X. Paying as before means no ads. More options"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-15T22:05Z 294.6K followers, 80.1K engagements
"The last days talked with engineers and eng managers / tech leads inside Cursor OpenAI Anthropic in their HQ. The daily tooling they use to build sw is so different to most of the industry (outside AI startups) But what a great engineer is feels like it remains unchanged"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-16T00:38Z 294.5K followers, 68.1K engagements
"From a dev at Big Tech: X devs across X teams are stuck for a month on a build problem thats caused by connections resetting between two gateways and a messaging queue. I cannot solve it because Im blocked access to the other X teams systems. I cannot see AI solving this"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-17T16:56Z 294.5K followers, 48.2K engagements
"Always a good day to hang out with @KentBeck"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-18T05:28Z 294.5K followers, 13.8K engagements
"If you are someone who forms their opinion on AI tools purely based on latest podcast soundbites w one or two well-known ppl in the field: Consider that you should get more hands-on with it and make up your own view about them. Easier than it seems and not enough ppl do it"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-18T16:06Z 294.5K followers, 16K engagements
"Of course its more work and requires critical thinking At least on social media I find critical thinking to be less discoverable so many taking over what someone else with status says"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-18T16:07Z 294.5K followers, 6693 engagements
"Both very ambitious but no one at Anthropic said when we get to AGI and several devs at OpenAI did who I talked with (but not all)"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-18T17:23Z 294.6K followers, 8738 engagements
"@aloncarmel I never liked them. UX never clean thanks to needing to support a bunch of stuff. I just like to easily find the code"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-18T19:31Z 294.5K followers, 2841 engagements
"Theres ongoing Adobe hate because they keep scamming their own customers with the if you cancel now we charge you hundreds of dollars as early termination fee and you lose access immediately. No other SaaS does this. FTC is suing them but Adobe keeps doing it. They scammed me in 2020 and I bring it up since Cannot talk for others"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-21T09:39Z 294.6K followers, XXX engagements
"Klarna was the company that went all-on replacing customer support with an AI bot and went on to brag about the cost savings. Now they are reversing course. Easy to see more companies blindly replacing quality customer support with a worse AI implementation will follow"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-02-19T12:55Z 294.6K followers, 620.4K engagements
"Ebay bought Skype for $2.6B in 2005; could not figure out what to do with it. Private Equity (Silverlake) then bought it from them for $1.9B in 2009 invested heavily and got the product to grow a lot more and sold it to Microsoft for $8.5B in 2011. An example of PE working out"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-07-25T13:08Z 294.6K followers, 37.2K engagements
"One of the most common uses of "vibe coding" I'm hearing from professional devs outside of prototyping: Building internal-only tools Where you don't need to worry about security scalability malicious usage. E.g. data visualization / data viewer tools. Used a lot for this"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-09-16T15:05Z 294.6K followers, 84.3K engagements
"What is ServiceNow and what companies use it in relation to software engineering And to do what (It showed up in The Pragmatic Engineer 2025 survey with similar numbers rif mentions as Backstage and even after reading ServiceNows About page I remain utterly confused.)"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-12T23:46Z 294.6K followers, 78.9K engagements
"And how is it a $200B company when its hard to understand what they do Im utterly confused Am I being thick or is ServiceNow as opaque as it looks"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-12T23:47Z 294.6K followers, 11.6K engagements
"@EzekialOilGas This is as helpful as the About page at ServiceNow not at all"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-12T23:50Z 294.6K followers, 4581 engagements
"It bothers me to no extent that the media plays how Klarna whistles Klarna wants to the headlines to say "AI-enabled Klarna" It would have halved its workforce without AI because it overhired 2x in 2020-21 and never corrected till now But this is how they get front pages"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-13T05:17Z 294.6K followers, 53.2K engagements
"So consider that if you changed your view fully after listening to the Andrej Karpathy interview or Richard Sutton interview: you probably are either hands-off with it or not a critical thinker Whichever it is: fix it. Else youll swim with the crowd influenced only by others"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-18T16:09Z 294.7K followers, 6408 engagements
"@Igloczek in the end whatever works for you I went through great pain to use what was a subpar product at the time (Affinity - today it's much better) just because I refuse to give any money to a company that I feel did business dirty with me"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-20T15:22Z 294.6K followers, 1774 engagements
"@darshitpp If youre a software engineer using critical thinking is a baseline skill Trusting a top upvoted Reddit comment is the opposite of this No AWS is not outsourcing resilience or operations. Its the stupidest thing I heard"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-21T09:48Z 294.6K followers, XXX engagements
"Amusing how XX% of people using LLMs forget how these things work: They are advanced probability machines. They generate the next most likely token (word) based in the input and their training. Under the hood its a giant matrix multiplication that has eerily good output"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-09-04T13:46Z 294.7K followers, 1.2M engagements
"a big reason for me using WYSIWG interfaces like Webflow in the past: modifying it is a pain just from code; running my web server; checking it etc But now Claude or any agent can modify it And imagine when it will launch the browser to view it as well"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-18T16:26Z 294.7K followers, 13.4K engagements
"And yes Adobe is turning its biggest supporters (its own paying customers) into its biggest haters who openly tell everyone to avoid the company because they scam their own customers Even the FTC is suing Adobe for this practice How you slowly kill a company"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-20T07:09Z 294.7K followers, 17.8K engagements
"@whoiskatrin How did you miss to never ever buy Adobe lol Been warning people for years. There are alternatives and no other one pulls this scam. Only SaaS that ever fooled me and I hated the feeling"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-20T07:12Z 294.7K followers, 4009 engagements
"Seeing a trend of anon accounts posting what very clearly feels like AI replies I have started to block these accounts whenever I see one Another example how AI going mainstream results in less trust and a worse social media experience"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-20T10:00Z 294.7K followers, 22.3K engagements
"Each and every infra platform service and SaaS that had no issues during this AWS outage has bragging rights Even more so if they do have an AWS dependency but manage to mitigate or fall over (aka prepared for this)"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-20T16:37Z 294.7K followers, 53.7K engagements
"One example of a company that doesnt allow employees to shine (regardless of how much standout work the do): Apple The most youll see from an Apple engineer is a short note on WWDC saying I worked on it. Never seen more. OpenAI is successfully poaching from Apple btw"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-03T10:08Z 294.7K followers, 43.5K engagements
"So one impression from talking with a few engineers at Anthropic and at OpenAI: OpenAI feels like internally still more focusing on getting to AGI in guiding principle + goal Anthropic feels more feet on the ground improving one step after the other. Just the vibes I felt"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-18T17:22Z 294.7K followers, 28.2K engagements
"My week in SF in stickers from the offices that do have them It was great to stop at Cursor OpenAI Anthropic Modular AI Factory AI and see whats cooking from the inside Its very energizing exciting and SF is back (probably never left)"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-18T17:34Z 294.7K followers, 11.8K engagements
"Oh great my own newsletter is down because Substack is down because AWS is down Same with all Substacks. My blog running on Ghost is up tho (this blog:"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-20T08:44Z 294.7K followers, 17.5K engagements
"I cannot recall this ever happening: Amazon's flagship property (and cash cow) Amazon .com having issues throughout the day due to AWS infra problems. It's easy to criticize Google for not building Google Search on GCP - but as a result Search has no GCP dependencies"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-20T20:35Z 294.7K followers, 59.4K engagements
"I really hate how ignorant takes like this spread far and wide No the AWS outage is not caused by AI - anyone who worked at places like Amazon will know how outages like this happened before AI and its almost always a few unlucky + unforeseen things happening the same time"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-20T21:12Z 294.7K followers, 130.8K engagements
"@Edmond_J_ I have no affiliation with Canva: I am a customer and use it to create simple graphics. I dont think its a replacement. Affinity (also no affiliation) might have something but I never need advanced stuff (Im no designer) Affinity is pay once not a SaaS"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-21T09:08Z 294.7K followers, XXX engagements
"@maciejwyrodek Shopify has no own cloud and was up. Vercel runs on AWS but managed to stay up. This is not about cloud agonistic: one (large) region went down inside AWS - any business making themselves multi-region were fine"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-21T17:04Z 294.7K followers, 12.4K engagements
"A weird outcome of yesterday's AWS outage: Atlassian's Status Page was down (customers could not record outages.) So today dashboards for companies that were down are green. because they could not record the downtime Substack one example (the site was down hard)"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-21T17:26Z 294.7K followers, 43K engagements
"For any and all AI CLI coding tools Claude Code is the bar to beat. If it feels more sluggish or not as good in how it works: it really needs to bring in features Claude Code doesn't have else it just won't feel competitive. And this is great for competition"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-22T15:31Z 294.7K followers, 14.9K engagements
"This is the category where Ill start to be interested if X. I see proof from security researchers that prompt injections is a solved issue X. Execs of these companies prove they use these browsers w all their sensitive workflows (email social banking etc etc) for months exclusively"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-22T19:24Z 294.7K followers, 5912 engagements
"This is absolutely true if you want to experiment and the smart way to go about it. But its a sandbox in this case not a full-blown high-trust browser like eg Chrome Firefox etc"
X Link @GergelyOrosz 2025-10-22T19:25Z 294.7K followers, 13.9K engagements