Valentino Filipetto
@valentinofilipetto.bsky.social
Software developer at NN Nederland, Den Haag 🇳🇱 UvA graduate.
I Interviewed 20+ Engineers: Why Most Can’t Code — The Brutal Reality | by inside Nikita's Mind | Sep, 2025 | Medium share.google/TEtsQUCHC9q0...
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December 23, 2025 at 7:54 AM
I Interviewed 20+ Engineers: Why Most Can’t Code — The Brutal Reality | by inside Nikita's Mind | Sep, 2025 | Medium share.google/TEtsQUCHC9q0...
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Never heard about BunnyCDN... until now! Bluesky uses it, it's an European company, and has a rad website
Cloudflare outages like this are ofc very good adverts for it bunny.net
Cloudflare outages like this are ofc very good adverts for it bunny.net
December 5, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Never heard about BunnyCDN... until now! Bluesky uses it, it's an European company, and has a rad website
Cloudflare outages like this are ofc very good adverts for it bunny.net
Cloudflare outages like this are ofc very good adverts for it bunny.net
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Blind (and much of mainstream media!): the AWS outage is the result of “mass layoffs, outsourced talent.”
Me: talks to the AWS engineers handling the incident. Turns out the creators of the systems impacted were in the call (not laid off!), no outsourcing etc
Will share more
Me: talks to the AWS engineers handling the incident. Turns out the creators of the systems impacted were in the call (not laid off!), no outsourcing etc
Will share more
November 5, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Blind (and much of mainstream media!): the AWS outage is the result of “mass layoffs, outsourced talent.”
Me: talks to the AWS engineers handling the incident. Turns out the creators of the systems impacted were in the call (not laid off!), no outsourcing etc
Will share more
Me: talks to the AWS engineers handling the incident. Turns out the creators of the systems impacted were in the call (not laid off!), no outsourcing etc
Will share more
I attended an Uber meetup about AVs, with Danny Guo, VP of engineering, and Neil Barakat, Sr Director of engineering. It was very interesting!
October 29, 2025 at 7:57 AM
I attended an Uber meetup about AVs, with Danny Guo, VP of engineering, and Neil Barakat, Sr Director of engineering. It was very interesting!
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I agree only partially. LLMs can be dangerous in the hands of an unexperienced person. Example: I was asking questions to Claude Sonnet 4 about this solution:
October 20, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I agree only partially. LLMs can be dangerous in the hands of an unexperienced person. Example: I was asking questions to Claude Sonnet 4 about this solution:
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Can we, for a second, appreciate the Director of Engineering who flat out refused to produce falsified data for the founder, telling her that he doesn't think it's legal, refusing further pressuring to do so.
So Javice had to contract externally to get the fraud done.
So Javice had to contract externally to get the fraud done.
October 2, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Can we, for a second, appreciate the Director of Engineering who flat out refused to produce falsified data for the founder, telling her that he doesn't think it's legal, refusing further pressuring to do so.
So Javice had to contract externally to get the fraud done.
So Javice had to contract externally to get the fraud done.
LLMs are great for learning:
September 30, 2025 at 7:13 PM
LLMs are great for learning:
"Piuttosto che senso di tragedia c'è ansia per la risposta assente; la possibilità di conoscere è sospesa, così come nell'ultima battuta il canto dell'orchestra si conclude sospeso sulla dominante. Qual è il senso dell'essere? Qual è il senso della musica?"
Q. Principe
youtu.be/Hrzd9My5hn0?...
Q. Principe
youtu.be/Hrzd9My5hn0?...
Mahler Symphony no 9 / Orchestre de Paris o.l.v. Christoph Eschenbach
YouTube video by Maarten Brandt
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September 27, 2025 at 2:22 PM
"Piuttosto che senso di tragedia c'è ansia per la risposta assente; la possibilità di conoscere è sospesa, così come nell'ultima battuta il canto dell'orchestra si conclude sospeso sulla dominante. Qual è il senso dell'essere? Qual è il senso della musica?"
Q. Principe
youtu.be/Hrzd9My5hn0?...
Q. Principe
youtu.be/Hrzd9My5hn0?...
Great talk by @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com on a payment integration example in Uber from his time in Amsterdam. Highly recommend it:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yooC...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yooC...
[Payments Platform] Payments Integration at Uber: A Case Study -- Gergely Orosz
YouTube video by Uber Engineering
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September 11, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Great talk by @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com on a payment integration example in Uber from his time in Amsterdam. Highly recommend it:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yooC...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yooC...
Un orgasmo sonoro, impressionante. Il primo movimento da sentirsi male, non adatto ai malati di cuore.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Drhs...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Drhs...
Mahler - Symphony n°6 - Klaus Tennstedt (live recording 1991)
YouTube video by Sébastien Letocart - Composer
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September 11, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Un orgasmo sonoro, impressionante. Il primo movimento da sentirsi male, non adatto ai malati di cuore.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Drhs...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Drhs...
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Question from an intern at Uber: "If today you received an offer from a start-up vs Uber, which would you pick?"
Early-career, I'd pick the option that opens more doors later on.
If the startup is industry-wide known like OpenAI/Anthropic/Ramp: great choice.
Else I'd go w Uber
Early-career, I'd pick the option that opens more doors later on.
If the startup is industry-wide known like OpenAI/Anthropic/Ramp: great choice.
Else I'd go w Uber
September 10, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Question from an intern at Uber: "If today you received an offer from a start-up vs Uber, which would you pick?"
Early-career, I'd pick the option that opens more doors later on.
If the startup is industry-wide known like OpenAI/Anthropic/Ramp: great choice.
Else I'd go w Uber
Early-career, I'd pick the option that opens more doors later on.
If the startup is industry-wide known like OpenAI/Anthropic/Ramp: great choice.
Else I'd go w Uber
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At this stage AI will provide a huge boost to balanced people that don't jump in any extreme hype / anti-hype train, and will create issues to the folks that don't see that judicious application of LLMs is the key. One of those historical moments when wisdom is an advantage.
August 28, 2025 at 5:10 PM
At this stage AI will provide a huge boost to balanced people that don't jump in any extreme hype / anti-hype train, and will create issues to the folks that don't see that judicious application of LLMs is the key. One of those historical moments when wisdom is an advantage.
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Freedom has a price. Ukrainians are paying it for all of Europe.
Happy Independence Day, thank you, and godspeed to all who defend Ukraine, in and out of uniform.
Happy Independence Day, thank you, and godspeed to all who defend Ukraine, in and out of uniform.
August 24, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Freedom has a price. Ukrainians are paying it for all of Europe.
Happy Independence Day, thank you, and godspeed to all who defend Ukraine, in and out of uniform.
Happy Independence Day, thank you, and godspeed to all who defend Ukraine, in and out of uniform.
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One trick I learned at Uber (where this got popular)
When writing an email that is longer than ~3 paragraphs / ~12 sentences: before sending, STOP
Re-read the whole thing
Add a new line to the top starting with tl;dr
Summarize the whole thing in one sentence
You're welcome
When writing an email that is longer than ~3 paragraphs / ~12 sentences: before sending, STOP
Re-read the whole thing
Add a new line to the top starting with tl;dr
Summarize the whole thing in one sentence
You're welcome
August 15, 2025 at 8:45 AM
One trick I learned at Uber (where this got popular)
When writing an email that is longer than ~3 paragraphs / ~12 sentences: before sending, STOP
Re-read the whole thing
Add a new line to the top starting with tl;dr
Summarize the whole thing in one sentence
You're welcome
When writing an email that is longer than ~3 paragraphs / ~12 sentences: before sending, STOP
Re-read the whole thing
Add a new line to the top starting with tl;dr
Summarize the whole thing in one sentence
You're welcome
I think part of the "coder who can't code" phenomenon can be explained with the existence of low code tools. If you use them long enough and you never wrote real code you effectively don't know programming.
I just posted this on Linked In, but @codinghorror.bsky.social talked about this many times. In 2025, it is still so relevant. In fact @antirez.bsky.social live solved this in his YouTube channel. The question remains: why so many developers cannot write code?
August 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM
I think part of the "coder who can't code" phenomenon can be explained with the existence of low code tools. If you use them long enough and you never wrote real code you effectively don't know programming.
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I musicisti della Filarmonica nazionale ucraina fanno appello ai loro colleghi italiani affinché Gergiev e la propaganda russa non siano presenti al concerto alla Reggia di Caserta.
Da parte mia: perché Vincenzo De Luca è così cocciutamente intento a voler portare l’amico di putin in Campania?
Da parte mia: perché Vincenzo De Luca è così cocciutamente intento a voler portare l’amico di putin in Campania?
July 17, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I musicisti della Filarmonica nazionale ucraina fanno appello ai loro colleghi italiani affinché Gergiev e la propaganda russa non siano presenti al concerto alla Reggia di Caserta.
Da parte mia: perché Vincenzo De Luca è così cocciutamente intento a voler portare l’amico di putin in Campania?
Da parte mia: perché Vincenzo De Luca è così cocciutamente intento a voler portare l’amico di putin in Campania?
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Don't ask me why sometimes I need to reach such a point.
July 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Don't ask me why sometimes I need to reach such a point.
Semplicemente di un'altra categoria, ma che suoniamo a fare, andiamo a casa.
youtu.be/ksjcewGry04?...
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Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 - 4. Finale | Petrenko · Berliner Philharmoniker
YouTube video by Berliner Philharmoniker
youtu.be
June 29, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Semplicemente di un'altra categoria, ma che suoniamo a fare, andiamo a casa.
youtu.be/ksjcewGry04?...
youtu.be/ksjcewGry04?...
"Il grande Adagio, nella sua quasi assillante necessità di confidenza, si costituisce ad ampio diario di solitudine e di passione, di rassegnazione e di speranza [...]".
youtu.be/bJbCi21oM-Q?...
youtu.be/bJbCi21oM-Q?...
Symphony No. 8 in C Minor, WAB 108: III. Adagio. Feierlich langsam, doch nicht schleppend (1890...
YouTube video by Sergiu Celibidache - Topic
youtu.be
June 24, 2025 at 4:38 PM
"Il grande Adagio, nella sua quasi assillante necessità di confidenza, si costituisce ad ampio diario di solitudine e di passione, di rassegnazione e di speranza [...]".
youtu.be/bJbCi21oM-Q?...
youtu.be/bJbCi21oM-Q?...
"Us" who, sorry? Not in my name!
Chancellor Merz has made very clear what his opinion is regarding the Israeli operation in Iran:
“This is the dirty work that Israel is doing for all of us. If not done we might have seen the terror of the Iranian regime for months and years to come - and then maybe even facing a nuclear bomb.”
“This is the dirty work that Israel is doing for all of us. If not done we might have seen the terror of the Iranian regime for months and years to come - and then maybe even facing a nuclear bomb.”
June 17, 2025 at 8:01 PM
"Us" who, sorry? Not in my name!
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The bane of my existence is the so-called "Modern" Search Engines that are incapable of finding a fucking substring in a string.
June 2, 2025 at 7:56 PM
The bane of my existence is the so-called "Modern" Search Engines that are incapable of finding a fucking substring in a string.
I ran a marathon as a (semi) amateur!
May 27, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I ran a marathon as a (semi) amateur!
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If you read the post about O3 finding a SMB bug in the Linux Kernel, I did a few tests and I what I suspected looks true: Gemini 2.5 PRO can more easily identify the vulnerability. My success rate is so high that running the following prompt a few times is enough: gist.github.com/antirez/8b76...
linux_smb_vunlerability_prompt.txt
linux_smb_vunlerability_prompt.txt. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
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May 25, 2025 at 10:06 AM
If you read the post about O3 finding a SMB bug in the Linux Kernel, I did a few tests and I what I suspected looks true: Gemini 2.5 PRO can more easily identify the vulnerability. My success rate is so high that running the following prompt a few times is enough: gist.github.com/antirez/8b76...