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Steve Yegge

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The Death of the Stubborn Developer

I wrote a blog post back in May called The Death of the Junior Developer. It made people mad. My thesis has since been corroborated by a…

Dec 10, 2024

Dec 10, 2024

A good day with Jeff

This is a story about Jeff Bezos which I’ve told many times over the years, but which I don’t think I’ve ever written down. And although he…

May 27, 2023

May 27, 2023

We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Moat

Everyone making SaaS on LLMs, including coding assistants like Cody and Copilot, was rocked by the AI news events of last week.

May 11, 2023

We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Moat

May 11, 2023

The Death of Richard Dawkins

A short story by Steve Yegge

Jun 28, 2021

Jun 28, 2021

Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy is Killing You

God dammit, I didn’t want to blog again. I have so much stuff to do. Blogging takes time and energy and creativity that I could be putting…

Aug 15, 2020

Aug 15, 2020

Saying Goodbye to the Best Gig I Ever Had

Friday was my last day at Grab, and I wanted to give a quick retrospective, plus tell folks what I’m up to. I didn’t get a chance to say a…

May 19, 2020

Saying Goodbye to the Best Gig I Ever Had

May 19, 2020

Google to Grab: One year later

Big Fat Disclaimer: I DO NOT SPEAK FOR GRAB. I work there, but these are my own opinions. Not Grab’s.

May 18, 2019

Google to Grab: One year later

May 18, 2019

The Song of the Golden Dragon

I’ve never before been inspired to write an essay about a piece of music. This is a first for me; we’ll see how it goes.

Jan 24, 2019

The Song of the Golden Dragon

Jan 24, 2019

Jeff Bezos, Jack Ma, and the Quest to Kill eBay

The right — and wrong — way to compete with a locked market

Nov 25, 2018

Jeff Bezos, Jack Ma, and the Quest to Kill eBay

Nov 25, 2018

Get that job at Grab

Note: I do not speak for my employer, Grab. These thoughts and opinions are solely my own.

May 21, 2018

May 21, 2018

Steve Yegge

Steve Yegge

14.7K followers

Steve Yegge is ex-Geoworks, ex-Amazon, ex-Google, and ex-Grab, with nearly 30 years of tech industry experience. Nowadays he’s pretty much retired.

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