Jai Jalan @jjalan

Founder at Better - Building & Scaling Software Products | Operate (https://t.co/wmiQ9il7WY) - AI for production RCA | Hands-on Operator | Ex-Microsoft | IIT Alum bettrhq.com Jaipur, India Joined July 2008

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Jai Jalan @jjalan

5 days ago

Sat in on a client session. Three engineers. Same problem. All using AI. All got working code. None working from the same picture of the system. AI amplifies whatever you start with. Fuzzy spec, confident garbage.

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2 weeks ago

Another Dr. visit, another disappointment. Called at 9 am, took appointment for 10:40 am, arrived at 10:15 am - everything as per instructions. No Dr., and still atleast 10 patient in front. This happens everytime. High regards for the profession, wish they would respect patient time as well. @JainENT Jaipur.

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3 weeks ago

timeinweeks.com

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3 weeks ago

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3 weeks ago

@mattpocockuk Saw this play out with 3 engineers building the same feature in parallel. All used AI. All worked from prototypes. None built the same thing. The prototype fixed the format problem. Not the shared-picture problem.

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3 weeks ago

@QuinnyPig Every time us-east-1 does this, teams find out which services had implicit single-AZ assumptions nobody documented. The AZ failure is the easy part of the postmortem.

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3 weeks ago

@rseroter Do you find debugging AI-generated code demands a different kind of attention since you didn't write it?

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3 weeks ago

nine years running client engineering teams gave us a close enough picture of how incident resolution actually plays out to build something precise around it. curious if you think process intimacy like that can be substituted with good observation - or if you really have to live in the workflow.

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3 weeks ago

@davepl1968 opposite experience from the lazy commit side - had a commit that just said "fix." bug resurfaced months later. two senior engineers spent two days reconstructing what the original change was supposed to do. the ask-why culture in reviews prevents exactly that.

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3 weeks ago

@mitsuhiko had a client ask for a metrics dashboard before the underlying data pipeline was reliable. built a beautiful chart of wrong numbers. the real problem hid behind the visualization for another month.

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3 weeks ago

@elonmusk Something that's been on my mind

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3 weeks ago

8/ Because the people raising the next generation shape the future just as much as the people building companies, institutions, or technology.

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3 weeks ago

What if “Homemaker” was the highest-paid offer at graduation? Engineer: $120K Doctor: $200K+ Homemaker: $0 salary, $0 equity, no title. And yet it may be the role with the highest long-term impact on society.

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Jai Jalan @jjalan

3 weeks ago

7/ Maybe one day we’ll see: elite schools for home science conferences around raising families well awards for exceptional parenting and homemaking social prestige around building great homes Not pity. Respect.

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3 weeks ago

6/ In Finland, teaching is one of the most respected professions in society. Harder to get into than law or medicine. That happened because society collectively decided: “People shaping the next generation matter.”

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Jai Jalan @jjalan

3 weeks ago

5/ And no - putting numbers on it doesn’t “commodify” love. We already put numbers on: teaching caregiving therapy medicine All deeply human professions. Ignoring value doesn’t make something noble. Sometimes it just makes it invisible.

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3 weeks ago

4/ Imagine if society treated homemaking as foundational work instead of unpaid background labor. Maybe that means: 10% of household lifetime income 1–5% equity in family wealth creation retirement benefits prestige attached to the role Not fixed numbers. Just a thought experiment.

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3 weeks ago

3/ Modern society measures value through markets. So naturally: founders get equity executives get stock investors get returns But the person building the foundation underneath all of it often gets… nothing.

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3 weeks ago

2/ A great homemaker doesn’t just “manage a house.” They: raise kids create emotional stability hold families together build social reputation enable everyone else to pursue ambition The work is invisible until it stops being done.

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3 weeks ago

@simonw Forcing public-only also surfaces when different team members are framing the same problem in completely different ways. Had three engineers at a client recently, all solving the same thing, none working from the same picture. That divergence would have been visible a lot sooner.