I hate to be cagey here but I just really don’t want to make anyone’s life harder than it needs to be by revealing their identity. Microsoft is a really tough place to be an employee right now.

Thanks for signing up. I’m going to try really hard to open up some beta slots next week so more people can try it. There’s some embarrassingly bad bugs in prod right now…

Best of luck with this transition. I had a really hard time when I left Microsoft. It’s took longer than I expected to feel better but I do now.

Yes, absolutely

Yes

I feel the same way about those embarrassingly solved problems! Though oftentimes the trick is knowing what to ask for. I remember grinding for weeks on a front end but until I realized what the problem was (not the exact bug just what the general concept should be) Claude then fixed it in 10 seconds.

I’m glad it resonated. I’ve found a lot of people in Microsoft have some shared struggles right now. It’s really hard get excited about jobs after that, but you only need one job to be the right fit. It sounds like you were working on some great stuff and you should keep pursuing that interest in the meantime. You never know where it might lead you.

Thanks!

I might have written in broad strokes but I was really annoyed. Like I want to get out of the Amazon/Microsoft bubble. And yeah everyone is cranky rn

Microsoft and Amazon people in Seattle are as annoying as Hollywood people in LA. I feel your disenchantment with the monoculture.

So actually that’s what I’ve been working on. It’s been taking so long because I’ve been building my own ai focused geocoder to do just that

Look forward to trying it!

Are they good?

That’s why I built all my geo infrastructure from scratch from osm, there’s still some issues but for AI location grounding it outperforms google places for $300/mo

Google has monopoly of places API, I tried foursquare and their public dataset and got tons of wrong locations of the places. It even got the location of the Eiffel tower wrong.

That’s why you have to make your own geocoder

How and how precise is the end data?