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ByteVagabond @bytevagabond.com · 11/02/2026

Yes this is a key point: You gotta know why you are taking shortcuts and understand the implications. A concept I cal "Temporal arbitrage".

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ByteVagabond @bytevagabond.com · 11/02/2026

I analyzed this as well. Performed slightly worse actually. See the blog post for more details :)

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ByteVagabond @bytevagabond.com · 11/02/2026

"Write clean code. You'll thank yourself later." So I tested it. 70 startup codebases. 146 funding rounds. Messy code + fast shipping = 60.6% funded. Cleanest codebases = 44.4%. Speed beat perfection - at least when capital was cheap. Full analysis & data: bytevagabond.com/post/technic...

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I Analyzed 70 Startups' Codebases — The Ones With More Technical Debt Raised More Money

An empirical study of 70 VC-backed companies reveals that technical debt doesn't slow startups down, and the 'move fast and break things' crowd was right all along — at least during the ZIRP era.

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ByteVagabond @bytevagabond.com · 24/01/2026

10 years of OpenAI: 2015: $0 profit 2025: Still $0 profit (but in a blazer) Lost ~$8B in 2025. Projected $14B loss in 2026. Deutsche Bank estimates $143B in negative cash flow before profitability. But hey, at least they upgraded from the t-shirt. That's progress, right?

Split-screen comparison meme showing the same person in two poses. Left side labeled 'OpenAI 2015: Profit - $0' shows person in casual green long-sleeve shirt with arms crossed. Right side labeled 'OpenAI 2025: Profit - $0,000,000,000' shows the same person in formal business attire (navy blazer and white shirt) with arms crossed, depicting how the company became more professional-looking while maintaining zero profitability.

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ByteVagabond @bytevagabond.com · 23/01/2026

People consumed the last Star Wars trilogy and endless Marvel content. AI slop hitting billions of views isn't a mystery, it's just pattern recognition.

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ByteVagabond @bytevagabond.com · 05/01/2026

POV: You're trying to decide which Switch to buy in 2026 Left: €400 dust collector with joycon drift that can't route packets Right: Enterprise-grade packet-pushing powerhouse with 99.9999% uptime One manages traffic better than any government. The other stores 2 games. Choose wisely. 🔌

Comparison meme showing Nintendo Switch 2 on left (gaming console with controllers) versus a Layer 2 network switch on right (gray enterprise networking equipment). Left side lists Switch 2 problems: mostly for Mario Kart and dust collection, can't route packets, gets slower over time, OLED screen but 720p in 2025, storage full after 2 games, 400€, joycon drift. Right side lists Layer 2 switch advantages: doesn't lag or crash, 24 ports with no excuses, wired and proud, manages traffic better than any government, doesn't run out of storage, 99.9999% uptime, reliable.

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ByteVagabond @bytevagabond.com · 29/12/2025

Imagine uploading 1 YouTube video 9 years ago and still generating 2M+ views a month. No algorithm hacks. No posting schedule. No "content strategy." Just a fireplace burning for 10 hours. This is what digital real estate actually looks like.

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ByteVagabond @bytevagabond.com · 24/12/2025

Finally treating myself to a maxed MacBook this Christmas 🎄 Excited to experiment with local AI models in 2026 - feels like we're on the edge of something special with edge computing. Wishing you all happy holidays and time with the people you care about 🎁

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ByteVagabond @bytevagabond.com · 17/12/2025

Waterfox: Firefox without the AI bloat. Free, open-source, and refreshingly focused on just being a browser. waterfox.com

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ByteVagabond @bytevagabond.com · 10/12/2025

I've seen teams burn out maintaining Kubernetes for 500 users. 3 microservices. 40 hours/week fighting YAML. Zero business value. A $5 VPS with Docker Compose would've been fine. Stop cosplaying as Google and ship actual features.

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ByteVagabond @bytevagabond.com · 05/12/2025

Btw. within the past 72 hours: - Apple's AI Chief steps down - Apple's Head of UI Design leaves to Meta - Apple's Policy Chief steps down - Apple's Head of General Counsel steps down

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ByteVagabond @bytevagabond.com · 27/11/2025

I guess you are not the only one :D

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ByteVagabond @bytevagabond.com · 26/11/2025

What ever happened to this guy?

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ByteVagabond @bytevagabond.com · 20/11/2025

Google has made Quick Share compatible with AirDrop WITHOUT Apple's help! But as I understand it: Android ↔ iPhone: works ☑️ iPhone ↔ Android: ❌ blog.google/products/and...

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ByteVagabond @bytevagabond.com · 19/11/2025

The scale of modern display tech is absurd. That's a MicroLED on the right: 15×30 micrometers. Smaller than a dust particle. Thousands fit where one standard LED used to go. Wild what's possible with modern manufacturing

Three scanning electron microscope images showing size comparison of LED technologies on silicon wafers. Left: Standard LEDs appear as large rectangular chips. Center: MiniLED is significantly smaller, showing detailed layered structure. Right: MicroLED measures just 15×30 micrometers, barely visible at this scale. Yellow labels and arrows indicate each technology type.

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ByteVagabond @bytevagabond.com · 18/11/2025

Gemini 3 leak shows solid gains on math, vision, and SimpleQA Sonnet still ahead on SWE-bench though, while Gemini takes TerminalBench Nice to see models getting better at different things

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ByteVagabond @bytevagabond.com · 15/11/2025

Gemini's growth over the past year is wild Google went from basically nothing to a serious challenger while ChatGPT's dominance is clearly slipping The market is diversifying faster than I expected 👀

Stacked bar chart showing generative AI traffic share trends over the past year. OpenAI's dominant position has notably declined while Gemini has grown substantially to become a significant competitor, alongside smaller gains from other platforms like Huggingface and Meta.

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ByteVagabond @bytevagabond.com · 12/11/2025

softbank is selling its nvidia stake to fund companies whose main expense is buying from nvidia?

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ByteVagabond @bytevagabond.com · 11/11/2025

SoftBank announces that its has sold its entire stake in Nvidia, $NVDA, for $5.8 billion. Who has more cash now, them or Warren Buffet?

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ByteVagabond @bytevagabond.com · 27/10/2025

Wild data just dropped 📊 Companies using AI are hiring MORE senior employees but fewer juniors. What does this mean for your career? Are we entering an "experience premium" era? www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

Two line charts titled "Rage against the machine" showing US employment changes from 2015-2025 (December 2022=100). Left panel shows junior employees: red line (AI-adopting firms) rises from 80 to ~103 by late 2022, then drops to ~95 after GPT-3.5's release; gray line (non-adopting firms) steadily rises to ~102. Right panel shows senior employees: red line (AI-adopting firms) rises dramatically from ~70 to ~107 by 2025, continuing upward after GPT-3.5; gray line (non-adopting firms) rises more gradually to ~102. Vertical lines mark GPT-3.5's release in both charts. Source: Hosseini & Lichtinger SSRN working paper, 2025.

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ByteVagabond @bytevagabond.com · 24/10/2025

These captcha's are getting out of hand.. Pretty sure the answer is just clicking skip.

A CAPTCHA puzzle titled 'Select all companies with profit - If there are none, click skip' showing a 4x4 grid of tech company logos including OpenAI, Snapchat, Vercel, Uber, NVIDIA, DoorDash, Lime, DeepSeek, Anthropic, Reddit, Lovable, Replit, a0.dev, Cursor, Lyft, and Bolt. A blue 'SKIP' button appears at the bottom right. The image satirizes how few tech companies are actually profitable.

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ByteVagabond @bytevagabond.com · 20/10/2025

engineers everywhere pretending to “monitor the situation” while refreshing the aws status page

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ByteVagabond @bytevagabond.com · 16/10/2025

Latest OpenAI numbers from the FT: 800m users, 5% paying (40m). $13bn in ARR. Implies a $325 annual ARPU, or $27/month per paying user. 70% of rev from subscriptions, rest is API. $8bn loss in H1, prob $20bn run rate loss now? So basically spending $3 for each $1 in revenue.

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ByteVagabond @bytevagabond.com · 13/10/2025

Windows 10 support ends tomorrow. They designed it to be EVERGREEN. The UI is still modern. It works flawlessly. Users love it. Microsoft is killing their most successful OS for literally no reason except to push Windows 11. This is customer-hostile nonsense.

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ByteVagabond @bytevagabond.com · 09/10/2025

Bob Ross vibe coding was the AI slop I never knew I needed in my life

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ByteVagabond @bytevagabond.com · 07/10/2025

Open Printer: an open-source inkjet printer with no DRM, no subscriptions, and repairable parts. Sometimes the best innovation is just making things work the way they should have all along.

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ByteVagabond @bytevagabond.com · 30/09/2025

We should build a server rack using only iPhone mainboards ^^

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ByteVagabond @bytevagabond.com · 30/09/2025

Oh yes, you're right! I'm getting confused with all these model numbers now 🙃

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ByteVagabond @bytevagabond.com · 30/09/2025

The iPhone 16 Pro's A19 chip just took the #1 spot for single-thread performance on the planet Not "for a phone" or "in its class" Just straight up faster than Intel's best desktop CPUs Wide cores + dedicated cache + really good branch prediction. Apple's playing a different game at this point

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ByteVagabond @bytevagabond.com · 19/09/2025

Me leaving the office for the weekend after: "git push --force"...

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ByteVagabond @bytevagabond.com · 12/09/2025

If you become a billionaire and then lose it all, Forbes still keeps you on their real-time net worth tracker as some sort of dark humiliation ritual.

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ByteVagabond @bytevagabond.com · 09/09/2025

What recommendations for file manager? o_O

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ByteVagabond @bytevagabond.com · 08/09/2025

I like these camera bars the most though. If you gonna have one, at least make them not wobble. And it looks sleek. Kinda crazy though, apple copying google

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