Chiming in, I'm one of the founders of Espresso AI - we do both query optimization and warehouse optimization, both of which are hands-off. In particular we're beta-testing a fully-automated solution for query optimization (it's taken a lot of engineering!).
Based on the responses here I think we're a superset of where baselit is today, but I could be wrong.
We have better tech. For our customers, this translates directly into more savings.
We also have less setup and overhead than most of the other companies in the space. many of them come in with recommendations for system changes that you need to implement, and which they then charge you for; we take about ten minutes to set up and then generate savings automatically.
Espresso AI | https://espresso.ai/careers | Founding Engineer | NYC Onsite| Full-Time
Espresso AI is hiring founding engineers to automate performance engineering, starting with Snowflake data warehouses. Our team worked on ML and performance engineering in Google Search and Google Cloud, and we're applying our expertise to build the world's first neural optimizer.
We're well-funded with paying users, but early enough for you to have significant ownership and impact. Reach out to me directly: ben@espresso.ai.
Espresso AI is hiring founding engineers to automate performance engineering, starting with Snowflake data warehouses. Our team worked on ML and performance engineering in Google Search and Google Cloud, and we're applying our expertise to build the world's first neural optimizer.
We're well-funded with paying users, but early enough for you to have significant ownership and impact. Reach out to me directly: ben@espresso.ai.
How's your health? The brain fog, in particular, jumps out as something that may have other causes. In particular:
* Are you exercising?
* Sleeping well? Sleeping consistently?
* Eating well?
* Getting enough vitamins? Vitamin D is a common, easily fixed deficiency that can cause trouble concentrating; you can get your doctor to test it with a blood draw.
* Any chance you have long covid?
If you physically don't feel good on a daily basis, I would absolutely dial back your work and focus on getting in shape for, say, 2 months. 70+ hours per week clearly isn't getting you where you want, so aim for 40 and put in a hard cap at 50, and get used to the idea that some stuff won't get done. Once you're feeling better, continue keeping reasonable hours and resume studying then.
Even if everything else is fine, you might just be working too much. I think the vast majority of people would have trouble studying after a month straight of oncall and 12-hour days.
First, a reality check - it’s great that you can ship defect-free code, but that’s table stakes for a good senior engineer. You’re locally a 10x engineer because you wrote most of the code, so you’re naturally going to be a lot more effective than the other people on your team. This probably won’t translate to new projects.
If you joined a new project where someone else had written 80% of it, it would take you years to catch up to their productivity; if they were controlling and continued to write 80% of everything, it would be impossible. The next step in becoming a better engineer for this project is figuring out what you need to do differently for everyone else to be more productive; for example, if other people are pushing bugs, you need to add tests to make that impossible. If people take a long time to ramp up, you need to refactor the code so that someone doesn’t need to understand -all- of it to start contributing; you might also need onboarding docs.
The next step in becoming a better engineer generally is to switch teams and learn new skills. If you enjoy hard technical work, miss feeling challenged, and genuinely feel like you’re a much better dev than average, try switching to a hard field that’s new to you: distributed systems, ml, performance engineering, etc.
> You’re locally a 10x engineer because you wrote most of the code, so you’re naturally going to be a lot more effective than the other people on your team. This probably won’t translate to new projects.
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> If you joined a new project where someone else had written 80% of it, it would take you years to catch up to their productivity; if they were controlling and continued to write 80% of everything, it would be impossible.
So much this! I read the OP and thought that the dev should get out more. I'm 10x as productive on systems I built myself vs systems other people built.
That's (according to my rough estimates) one developer (me) being 10x better developer than the next developer (also me!).
Switch to an established team and see how long it takes you to get to your self-reported 23x developer status.
You have a heat reservoir, i.e. a well-insulated and very hot object, that stores energy as heat. If you insulate it with mirrors, that can look like bouncing photons back into the reservoir.
When you want to generate energy, you open the insulation and let heat out to hit this chip.
It’s like opening an oven door to let some hot air out.
Based on the responses here I think we're a superset of where baselit is today, but I could be wrong.