3.5 years at Amazon the only PowerPoints I saw were intern presentations

I work for a big enterprise customer. We get them.

Usually a good time to get some work done.

I was there too and was looking for you! My friends all used your OpenSauce tool

Tool in question: https://tools.simonwillison.net/open-sauce-2025

There was also some map someone mentioned at one point, that was much better than the official map on https://app.opensauce.com (at least on mobile).

I don't really have an opinion on working that much, but working that much and having to go into the office to spend those long hours sounds like torture.

The Apple Store used to be the embodiment of everything I didn't have when I was growing up - status, the lives the people in the sample pictures had, any sort of individual money or agency - now I have an Apple Store in walking distance and can buy whatever I want. It's a nice shift, even though I still don't have the life those actors in the sample pictures or Apple ads have.

> even though I still don't have the life those actors in the sample pictures or Apple ads have

(nobody does -- don't forget there are bounce lights and 20 people just out of frame...)

Next you’re going to tell me Jony Ive didn’t spend every day in a featureless white room meditating on the ideal form of a laptop or phone or MP3 player (a rounded rectangle, it turns out)

I think that's totally accurate, actually.

if TikTok is any indication it is the typical life of a Google engineer

It’s wild how things change, right? When I started using leadsapp, I realized small steps can add up to real progress. Having access so close makes a difference, even if the big picture feels far off.

It’s mass affluence. People are just willing to pay $30k+ new now - something that was a lot rarer even 10 years ago.

> you probably dont think people that went to state schools are even human

on the contrary. I have been quite vocal about why I felt my education was lacking and the respect I have for those who have gone for nontraditional paths

Dude, going to a state school isn't a nontraditional path.

I think it is? I have an uncle who made his career in it, he only started hitting 400k+ when he hit the director and C suite level. Meanwhile I started making 400 when I was 28 and that’s considered late for SWEs - it’s less than what Jane Street pays out of college.

> Meanwhile I started making 400 when I was 28 and that’s considered late for SWEs

Well, for FAANG and the second tier.

Meanwhile, I don't know if you've looked around lately but I see security startups that are well funded offering <200K for Senior ICs.

I might be wrong but my assumption is a big part of costs was a substantial retooling of the plot. Originally it has America Fererra as Elios mother, who was replaced with Zoe Saldana only last August (??). Additionally the first trailer seems to indicate an entirely different plot than the one in the finished product

Oh - it seems there was a directorial change and substantial rework: https://screenrant.com/elio-pixar-changes-different-how-why/

I somehow hadn't seen this before! A fun watch.

- Google buying TiVo is very funny, but ended up being accurate

- Google GRID is an interesting concept, but we did functionally get this with Google Drive

- MSN Newsbotster did end up happening, except it was Facebook circa ~2013+

- GoogleZon is very funny, given they both built this functionality separately

- Predicting summarized news is at least 13 years too early, but it's still correct

- NYT vs GoogleZon also remarkably prescient, though about 13 years too early as well

- EPIC pretty accurately predicts the TikTok and Twitter revenue share, though, again, about 12 years too early

- NYT still hasn't gone offline, and was bolstered by viewership during the first Trump term, and print subscriptions are the lowest they've ever been

Really great video - it does seem like they predicted 2024 more than 2014, where people unironically thought haitians were eating dogs and that food prices had gone up 200% because of what they saw on TikTok and elected a wannabe tyrant as a result