Head of Engineering at Skydio for Drones as First Responders (DFR)
Autonomous drones are becoming a crucial piece of infrastructure, just like wireless networks
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It’s simple, informing implies taking screen space, expressing consent implies user action. So overall it HAS to be similarly annoying to a cookie banner.
Of course if your answer is “people should just stop using cookies” then I have bad news for you.
Walking to the station isn't even the bad part. The bad part is then walking 3min in tunnels smelling like piss to get to the platform, then waiting 7min more for the train to arrive, then walk 3min more to get out of another piss-filled station. That's 10-15 of absolutely-not-enjoyable subway station.
Skydio | Robotics / Drones / Cloud / Web engineers | San Mateo CA, Zurich CH, or Hybrid | https://www.skydio.com/careers
Skydio is the leading U.S. drone company and world leader in autonomous flight. Our drones are used for inspecting the energy grid, de-escalating life and death scenarios in public safety, inspecting bridges, giving soldiers better situational awareness on the battlefield, search and rescue missions, and more. We serve the core industries that our civilization runs on and have life-saving impact.
If you’re interested in being a core member of a 250+ person world-class engineering and research team that is defining the future of a major emerging industry,
We’re looking for a diverse combination of engineers, researchers, and managers with strong SW skills and experience across complex products. We’re particularly interested in people with robotics, web, deep learning, game dev, streaming or cloud experience.
Come on, do you actually think "corporate engineers" care about what you are doing individually? Do you think they look specifically for you and make fun at your individual usage pattern? Do you think it gives them interesting information about your private life?
No one cares, there are millions of users, no one is going to look at your data, and even less be able to actually know which person a given user is.
We legit just want to know aggregated and objective information about how people use our products so we can make it better for you.
"Why do all corporate try to spy on our usage patterns?" Because the ones who don't have a crap product and all died long ago.
Blame your engineering culture not AI if metrics such as Github stats, number of nitpick reviews and token usage is what is used to judge one's performance.
In a sane engineering culture, actual customer-visible impact is what is measured, and AI is just a tool to improve that metric, but to improve it massively.
> somethings can be one-shotted and some things cant
True but my point is that people vastly underestimate what is one-shottable.
In my experience, 80% of the times an average "non-believer" SW engineer with 7 years experience says something is not one-shottable, I, with my 15 years of experience, think it is fact one-shottable. And 20% of the time, I do verify that by one-shotting it on my free time.
1. I am also on the receiving end of this. My boss often codes and vibecodes, and no one feels like they have to merge their stuff. We only merge it if it meets the high quality standard we have. And there is no drama for blocking a PR in our culture.
2. I am fairly deep in the trenches myself and I know when my PRs are high quality and when they are not. And that does not correlate with use of AI in my experience.
I get it, but as a "AI expert and senior leader" myself in my 1,000 people organization (in relative terms), the disconnect I have is:
A lot of what non-believers say matches "enthusiasm on the ground is lacking as results rarely live up to the extremely rosy promises". They would then say they need 2 weeks to work on a specific project, the good old way, maybe with some light AI use along the way.
But then I'm like "hmm actually let me try this real quick" and I prompt Claude for 3 minutes, and 30 minutes later it has one-shotted the whole "two weeks project". It then gets reviewed and merged by the "non-believers". This happens repeatedly.
So overall, I think the lack of enthusiasm is largely a skill issue. Not having the skill is fine, but not being willing to learn the skill is the real issue.
I see things changing, as "non-believers" eventually start to realize that they need to evolve or be toast. But it's slower than I imagined.
Skydio | Robotics / Drones / Cloud / Web engineers | San Mateo CA, Zurich CH, or Hybrid | https://www.skydio.com/careers
Skydio is the leading U.S. drone company and world leader in autonomous flight. Our drones are used for inspecting the energy grid, de-escalating life and death scenarios in public safety, inspecting bridges, giving soldiers better situational awareness on the battlefield, search and rescue missions, and more. We serve the core industries that our civilization runs on and have life-saving impact.
If you’re interested in being a core member of a 200+ person world-class engineering and research team that is defining the future of a major emerging industry,
We’re looking for a diverse combination of engineers, researchers, and managers with strong SW skills and experience across complex products. We’re particularly interested in people with robotics, web, deep learning, game dev, streaming or cloud experience.
I am a Senior Director of Engineering there and a YC S18 alumni, you can reach me at { vincent dot lecrubier at skydio dot com } but please apply online first!
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If you consider yourself a [Frontend|Backend|Infra|Robotics|Machine Learning|Computer Vision] Engineer please reach out!
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