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Sam Wight
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Software engineer

ADHD, anxiety, anime
I made a thing where I have Claude Code managing an imaginary McDonald's restaurant where it can talk to employees, manage complaints, etc. And I respond with all of them.

It took it about a day before it realized it didn't tell anyone how much they're paid
November 18, 2025 at 1:55 AM
I guess I understand why Claude acts the way it does when its training data includes of my first StackOverflow post from 10 years ago
November 16, 2025 at 3:44 AM
GitHub is down again :/
November 13, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I MEANT TO A SEPARATE FILE DUMBASS
November 10, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Claude: I wrote you unit tests!

Me: Are you sure they're unit tests

Claude: Yes I'm absolutely sure!

Me: Okay I'll look
November 10, 2025 at 10:15 PM
The amount of time I spend reviewing AI-written code is significantly higher compared to human-written code. The author effectively dumps all the effort in writing code onto the reviewer, impacting cycle time, code quality, and respect for colleagues.
November 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Letterboxd Easter eggs are fun this year
November 10, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Thanks Claude
November 7, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The education stipend at work was expiring at the end of the year so I just bought 20 programming books
November 5, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Reposted by Sam Wight
it's official
November 5, 2025 at 2:09 AM
I have joined the dual monitor gang
November 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Oh my god this is actually real, what the fuck happened to screen studio???
November 4, 2025 at 1:12 AM
New company has a $600 yearly personal learning budget that expires at the end of the year so I just spent $600 on dev books
November 3, 2025 at 11:26 PM
TIL China has a single time zone and doesn’t do daylight savings time

TBH would vastly vastly prefer that for scheduling things and also not having to reset sleep schedule twice a year

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in...
Time in China - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 3, 2025 at 7:00 PM
This always feels good
October 30, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Recently discovered Shodan exists so now I'm finding billboards on there and figuring out who owns them

This one keeps playing stuff about the haunted ghost train and it's owned by Nevada Northern Railway Company.
October 29, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Immediately after one of their longest, most visible, and frankly most embarrassing outages, Amazon's brilliant strategy to fix it is to layoff 10% of their corporate workforce according to Reuters.

www.cnn.com/2025/10/27/b...
Amazon to cut as many as 30,000 corporate jobs, reports say | CNN Business
Amazon is laying off as many as 30,000 corporate employees beginning tomorrow, reports say.
www.cnn.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Played Factorio with the randomizer mod with my siblings. Turns out it also randomizes the pickup / dropoff locations of inserters so we had to deal with this

Inserters normally do not look like giraffes
October 26, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Last day at Amazon! 🥳
October 25, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Reposted by Sam Wight
every time theres a major outage at least part of the fuckery is something like "yeah we dogfed the thing that went down into all of our internal tooling with 0 backups so we had to figure that out first"
It took them an hour and a half to fix part of it because they were LOCKED OUT OF INTERNAL TOOLING BUILT ON TOP OF DYNAMO LMAO
October 24, 2025 at 11:48 PM
AWS outage report is genuinely hilarious

“Oops the DNS updater accidentally deleted all the IPs from DNS for DynamoDB”
October 24, 2025 at 11:30 PM
After about three years in Chicago you get a kind of Stockholm syndrome love for colder weather
October 24, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Companies should be fined $5 million for every hour a single customer has lost internet
October 22, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Reposted by Sam Wight
Decoder won a Signal Award for best business podcast! Love to our devoted audience of org chart nerds ;)
October 15, 2025 at 11:05 PM
There’s never been a better time to get back into Ruby
October 12, 2025 at 1:20 AM