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abdussamit | 1 year ago | on: Ask HN: How do you go about finding a job?

So true about the last part! Over my last 8 years, I've learnt that to grow in the company and have a good position, you need to be a rock for at least 1 core area the company works in. Like you said, "become a knowledge source, a reference"

abdussamit | 2 years ago | on: Startup CTO's Handbook

I'm sure there are various tools out there that can help with that, saving time is crucial nowadays.

Shameless plug as excitingly I'm working on a tool https://designpro.ai which converts input from various sources into insights and tasks. I've used it to generate insights from my call transcripts, so I do know that it does work.

abdussamit | 2 years ago | on: AI isn’t good enough

I haven't read the article (like many here) and I don't get why the writer would write this. LLMs/AI are not a stage where they can replace people or their jobs (broadly speaking), they still have to be taught and engineered to solve your problems. For example, if I enter a prompt "Write a Javascript function that does XYZ for me.", and don't get a desired result, it's unfair for me to say "ChatGPT bad, AI bad".

At this moment, you have to work with the limits, use better prompts, use ChatGPT as a guide and not as your personal robot. With that approach, I feel lots of revolutionary content is incoming in products. Use the tool better to get the most out of it.

abdussamit | 2 years ago | on: The Reddit blackout will continue

It's not the Redditors or the 3rd party app devs' fault that Reddit is perhaps the only "big" corp whose main app is so shi*y that people resort to other alternatives. They had a lot of time to facilitate the mods and admins of subs, but they continued to deliver builds that didn't solve users' problems.

However, I feel for the people who have used the official apps for catching up to news, and they are missing out big-time. For example, where do I go now for unbiased football/soccer news?

abdussamit | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you not take criticism of your work personally?

So for me, I take criticisms personally, but only personally. However, it comes across to others that I am upset with them and hence I have heard a lot during my career that "hey, we are very careful giving you feedback, because you can take it personally and react".

I don't know what to do, because I don't like burdening someone else, or failing myself to a point where someone has to give me feedback. Just a perfectionist attitude.

abdussamit | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: Camaradly, a tool to measure your team's mood and morale

Last year, we prototyped a feedback and check-in cycle among our teams via Google Sheets, and when it worked really well for us, we transformed it into a tool that has gotten interest from managers and employees alike since WFH became the new normal.

How it works? People can check-in every week, and their managers can give them positive/constructive feedback on their performance. For a fun aspect, we have also added a banter feature.

Last thing, we saw many companies needed a 'Review' feature so we've baked it into the tool. The plus thing is that this tool has made our and our clients' reviews easy since the review forms are being populated from the data people submit on this tool.

Similar products in case someone's interested in them: 15five, Lattice, PeakOn, CultureAmp.

Help your teams grow in this time of distress!

p.s. it is free for the first 6 months!

abdussamit | 6 years ago | on: LXC 1.0 blog-post-series (2013)

If I want to learn Docker/containers, would it be beneficial to go through this? Will it enhance the background learning or do I need to go through this?
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