"I used to work at Netflix, by the way."

Can't wait for the "Ex-FAANG engineer..." videos

3:14 " _The jump always feels scary, and often, the landing is amazing_ " Memorable line.

Overheard at the coffee machine: "What's his name, the 'raw dog' potty-mouthed engineer quit." "He was gifted, but I won't miss that mouth."

"I worked at Netflix btw"

Waiting for the “How I write in Neovim (as an ex-Netflix engineer)”

I've only recently discovered you but quickly got hooked. I like the sarcasm/attitude, the knowledge you share, the insights, it's like that one senior dev that doesn't ignore the intern haha

"I told my boss I was quitting. He was extremely supportive." That happened to me once, too. Nothing makes you wonder who quit who when a boss is excited to see you go.

TheGoodbyeagen

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Thanks. I found through you wisdom not only in software engineering space, but also, especially, in life. You helped me, and others, a ton. We appreciate your effors and will support you no matter what. Thank you.

This is crazy, I remember starting to watch your videos just after I graduated with my Masters in August last year, no jobs lined up, running out of savings to pay rent, and praying that I would find any opportunity (Aus tech market is horrendous, a lot of people I graduated with haven't found anything yet)...now I'm 5 months into a role (only casual, and only 15-20 hours a week) but having some semblance of stability and actually doing something with all the things I learned at uni. Thanks for doing what you do, and good luck in your future endeavours!

TLDR; "I do not work at Netflix btw"

What you mentioned about the jump reminded me of this quote: “Everything you want is on the other side of fear.” - Jack Canfield. Good luck.

Thank you for all you do! Watching your videos and stream has really brought out a lot of joy for me to pursue computer science, and truly enjoy studying it in college. I can't wait to see where the future takes you!

I feel happy, sad and proud for you at the same time. I started watching your videos because "a guy at Netflix makes some very intriguing videos", then I noticed that because of your videos I became more knowledgeable and understood things a bit better. Then your work at Netflix and the stories you occasionally shared was something that had me in awe. After watching your videos from the all your channels I know that you do some great work and pour your all into those videos, I 'm very happy that you will continue down this path and I wish you all the luck. I'd be sad myself to leave such a colorful job as the one you've described thought, but you do you! keep up the great work!

dude it’s a lil late for April's fools!

Bro in his "FAANG to Influencer" arc, but as always, "those without their hands dirty are wrong, doing something makes you right".

Good luck on your next adventure! I started a company on Dec 31, 2019-in hindsight not the best time to jump ship and try to start something from the ground up. It was a scary time for me too. You're lucky to have somebody to share that journey with and she sounds amazing. Best wishes for you and yours!

I am so excited to see where this goes. You are so inspiring and so fun to watch. I wish you all the best in this journey.

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to me you were never the netflix guy, you're the guy that said "i can do it faster" when looking at the source code of left-pad and then getting absolutely smoked in the JS benchmark. love ya

You've given me a lot of motivation and significantly improved my skills and awareness of the industry. I'm sure you'll impact even more people with this change in focus, which will be a significant positive impact for the world. Thanks!

Bro, you reinvigorated in me to progress and love coding again. I have fone coding since i was in 2nd grade. Oregon trail times. Went to linrary, got books on computers and started reading. If i didnt know something, i read a book on that topic then came back to original book. Im 38 now and been coding aince highschool in 2003. Was really a job to me lately then i found your vids and you hot me back into who i was. Passion and learning everything i can again. To not just work but be good at it and creative again. Thanks!

Yo man so stoked to hear it. can't wait what future holds for you. best of luck will always support you through your journey

Lol given I just supported your channel I was worried when I saw the title. Glad and honored to be a supporter of your new journey. Thank you for all that you share.

Finally you can focus on the real things that matter, hot tub streams.

I find it so crazy that I started watching you in the middle of last year, hating my job and wanting more tech skills, and you got me in to Rust and I started learning even more about engineering and committed to upskilling. Now I just got hired for a brand new job and I'm moving out to Silicon Valley, and you're quitting you FAANG job to do this full time. You love to see it.

You have grown incredibly as a person. From bouncing around anxiously, to now being really confident and collected. You have learned how your words impact the audience and help shape new programmers who need an idol in their life. Your ability to entertain has grown tremendously. You are ready, man. This is it. ❤ You used to work at Netflix, by the way.

This is amazing! I am very happy you decided to go all in! You have personally re ignited my spark and love for programming and I have learned so much from watching your videos.

The king of humble bragging has a wife btw and used to work at Netflix btw and has kids btw and is taking a risk btw and has a supportive mom btw and has supportive friends btw

Now you can put "as and ex-FAANG engineer" in your titles :D Thanks for being an absolute inspiration. I have been using Neovim for 2 years now and its all thanks to you and TJ. Also please fix the screen tearing lol (Wayland arc???)

OMG, the joy this caused (on your behalf) legit snuck up on me. At your final words, I was pumping my fists in the air and screaming and hollering in celebration for you. Godspeed, and thanks for bringing us along for the journey!

Happy for you! I quit my big boy job about a month ago and while I don't have the streaming/content creation career you have going for you, it has brought me so much peace and I could not be more excited to see what's next. Best of luck to you my friend!

Good for you, man. You got this. You got me into Vim, and you and Thor have made me realize that I can still grow. I've been really comfortable in my job, it's secure, and I've been stagnating. I used to revel in learning new things, but over the years I got complacent and just stopped. Watching you and Thor have reminded me that I should continue to learn and try things like I used to. For that, you have my eternal gratitude.

First, I can't wait to see what you'll be doing. Two, thanks a lot to Pirate Software. Honestly, I've only started watching you less than a year ago, but you've changed my perspective on my side projects. I kept having projects I'd think were good but would never finish and projects I'd finish but weren't that great. You were the one who allowed me to actually push through and continue projects I'd lost interest in. Asperger really makes it pretty much impossible to work on something I'm not interested in, and thanks to you I found new ways to make things interesting. I found challenges where I only saw boredom, I found ways to make things harder to myself so they'd easily keep my motivation up. Every year for the past 14 years, ever since I was 8, I feel like I wasn't half the programmer I became the year before, and it's especially true of this year. I went out of my way to learn so much more about everything, to challenge myself to do insane things (building a compiler, a VM and a programming language without looking at tutorials or documentation), and so much more. So thank you from the bottom of my heart, and congratulations on this first step!

I've been lurking your videos for a while, I'm not a dev and I hate coding, but I love learning about how it works. The little bit of python scripting I learn for network automation has made more sense. Subscribed. You got this.

Thank you for introducing me to the side of software engineering that I could have discovered myself. Your journey is an inspiration and I have learnt so much from you. All the best for your future endeavors.

Prime, I'm very happy for you and I wish you nothing but the best. I'm still fairly new on Software Development and just on my second job on the field, but you helped me so much that you have no idea. Even the little nuggets of wisdom you drop on your streams are pure gold and I hope I'll be able to meet you personally here in Brazil when you come here with Turso to thank you for everything you do.

This is Awesome for you PRIME!! I can’t wait to see what content you do and what projects or startups or videos or games or whatever you create! Congratulations!

You're channels probably total like 60% of the media content I consume as a whole, so super excited to hear you're going full time! Best of luck, and i'm sure it will work out great for you :)

hey Prime, I think I first started watching your vim videos like 6ish years ago. Your early videos were a game changer for me and my career. All those years have passed and I'm now the lead engineer in one of Australia's major cyber companies. Many thanks man and all the best.

Just found your content a couple weeks ago, as a junior software engineer I found your streams to be super encouraging, glad you’re gonna be continuing content creation much love

Since I found you on KZfaq last year you made me rekindle my passion for programming a couple months ago I landed my first developer job I'm not even close to my jr peers but land a job and improving bit by bit, I truly believe you still a amazing road in front of you and I will keep watching and cheering for you!

So happy and so excited for your Prime! Look forward to supporting your future endeavors.

Best of luck, excited to see what you do next! This must be a bit daunting, given you have a family to think about, but I'm sure you'll make a great success of it.

Whoaaa, was not expecting that. Good for you man, I'm excited to see what comes. That takes a lot of courage.

I'm nearing the end of school rn and the whole "what to do with my life" thing has been in my mind for some time. Thank you for a lot of inspiration!

You are, truly, one of the most exceptional people on this damn website. There aren't a lot of people like you. I really really hope the DAMN BEST for you! You sincerely deserve it. I'm happy that we're going to see more of that beautiful mustache but I do understand how hard it might feel for doing a big shift like this one. You're a skillful engineer and an even better human being. I hope the best for you and wish you the luck in this Online-ridden journey.

Hello infinite drink guy! Congratulations on your decision, im sure it's gonna be one of the best you will make in your entire life, it takes lots of courage to do that and that's pretty rare nowadays, everyone just seems so comfy with themselves even though deep down they know they're really not. I was scared this was going to be the end of ThePrimeagen as influencer, and i can really feel in your voice how nervous you are with that decision, the only thing i can say is: take your time, don't rush anything and i am 100% sure you'll succeed. You inspire lots of people, me being one of them, and i can not express how thankful i am for that. Cheers from Brazil. LUA MENTIONED

So technically I’m more an “engineer” than you now? Real talk, congrats man

Beautiful message, I really wish you all of the best in this new endeavor, looking forward for the new content we will be getting from you

Although we come from different worlds (I am a .NET Developer), I whole heartly wish you the best of luck in your endeavor. Eventually, I plan on creating a stream for the .NET world soon and develop fun applications for developers learning technologies in .NET and in Microsoft stack in general. It's like riding a roller-coaster: the decision may be a scary one, but the thrill of the ride is going to be worth it. Best of luck on doing what you love, I hope to see you in the streaming world soon!

Looking forward to your future videos Prime. I've learned a lot from you in particular over the last months since I discovered this channel

man, not even your knowledge and hot takes, but your passion, motivation and drive is what gets my gears spinning and wanting to do more... i am in the middle of a quick side project, just couple of hours that is being sooo satisfying to build and run just by myself, not work related. god bless

Make sure you got all your stuff before your left the office. When I got laid-off from R&F back in January I left a cupcake in the empty locker next to mine. I really wanted that cupcake, it was chocolate with chocolate chips in it and some white frosting on top.

Chills dude, at the end when you paused and looked at your finger. Chills. Good luck on whatever comes next sir.

Glad to hear your boss was supportive, always a feels good moment hearing stories like that. You've changed my career trajectory drastically just from your part time content creation. I'm more inspired and invested than I've ever been. Cheers to you and good luck - you're gonna crush it

and thank you, and all the other software dev people on twitch and youtube. it's been very encouraging tuning in and listening to your streams, while working on my own personal projects. can't wait for more in the future!

Wise decision, now you can dedicate more time to your family and streaming much better and start new projects!! HAVE PEOPLE AROUND SUPPORT YOU IS YOUR GREATEST TEASURE!! LET'S GOOOOOO PRIME, we're together with you!!

Hyped for you! Can't wait to see all the good that comes from this change for you. Nothing but bright skys ahead!

Happy for you brother, I just got put on your channel from thor. You and thor have both inspired me that i can still learn and found a new passion in everything IT. Because of you two, I found a passion in everything about patterns and codes. Being able to build something from nothing with a helpful community built to back anyone up.

😅 Not going to lie... Prime had me sweating as there are so many ways a video with this kinda title could go. Wishing you all the best Prime and looking forward to more epic videos. Out of all the programmers I know both online and offline, you've had the biggest influence on me. A year ago I took your "Vim Fundamentals" course on Frontend Masters just to see what the hype was. Back then, my entire world was VS Code and JS. Now I'm watching this video while using Neovide, learning Rust, and C/C++ for DSA... I still have skill issues but who doesn't lol

What makes me respect you all that much more is your troubled past around excess drug use and still being able to take big chances like this. I'm scared to even get back into a tech role after melting my brain with drugs for years, never mind leaving a company like Netflix. Years of sobriety still haven't persuaded me to bet on myself and yet here you are, cool, confident and ready to run to your next venture. Good on ya, Prime. I truly hope you succeed!

Honestly, watching you feels like being involved in a streamer/youtuber before they go absolutely nuts in the viewership and subs. Best of luck to you mate can't wait to see what you cook.

Good luck man! Huge respect for you, please don’t change! We have seen so many people going full time content creation and destroy everything good they built by starting being someone else, for the views for the likes etc porque mariaaaaa

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By the way I work at Net....

You’re a role model. Been following for a really long time. Your stories and your passion was career changing for me. You’re the best.

This is awesome! thank you for doing this and dedicating your work to sharing and teaching! also the bonus part is that a terrible corpo is losing one of their best engineers!!

It's crazy because one of the things that I thought separated Prime from the rest of the influencers, was his presence at Netflix. I thought he was different because he was "in the field", like us, and delivering in prod, as he spoke to us, so his insight seemed more valuable to me. Compare that with other tech influencer that "were" in FAANG (or other), and get more and more detached of the reality of the job, as time goes on. These influencers tend to end up jumping trend to trend to stay relevant, and lose sight of company goals and job market. Anyways, wish him success.

"Congratulations, not because it's an easy decision, but because it's the right one. It takes real courage to make a determination like that."

Huge congrats brother. Honestly, I've always felt that your combination of humor, personality, and technical depth was so unique that you really needed to be somehow doing this full-time. So glad you're taking the risk

Your ability to take risks and advice at this stage in your life is admirable. My dad stopped listening to others at age 30 and his life just kept going downhill since. That combined with positivity about where you stand in life is so rare (sadly) Looking forward to the new content

Massive!!! Your videos are entertaining and (more importantly) disseminate quality knowledge. With your work ethic I have no doubt you'll find even more success than you've already been blessed with. S tier content creator, wishing you the best!! 🎉

Let’s gooo! Full time-agen!!!! 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀

You're going to go far. I can't wait to see what you have the capability of doing. I can only hope that you do more to bring people into the fold of computing and computing science. We need more quality people in the field, and I feel like you can help steer many people in the right direction. Thanks for all you do!

Good luck Prime! You are amazing and I love the way you present things and I believe you will have a lot of success now!! And I bet that netflix would have you in a sec if you wanted to go back.

You'd best make more content then, that way when I finish Infinite Thor I'll have more than enough content to build my next cursed game about you! I know how scary it is to rely on such a(potentially)fickle kind of job lol, I'm unemployed rn myself. You got this man, you've always had it in you, you always will. Also thank you for the super close up image of Thor's challenge token I will be using that in Infinite Thor as the main game currency now B)

Ex-FAANG Tech lead videos coming! Honestly a great step, your videos are great, entertaining, and informative. They are a cure to my curiosity and help me a lot to explore new things and learn. Also an encouraging step for us all to try to stop betting on safety and bet on ourselves. Best of luck in your next journey!

Good luck man. You've been a source of inspiration for me. Really like your videos.

Good on you. Having been in software for 25 years, I have seen people get nervous about leaving a job after a long tenure. Think about it like this; You learn new programming languages and methodologies on a regular basis to keep up to date and exercise your brain. Making a job change is no different, sure there might be a few bugs early days and maybe things are a bit wonky here and there. But in the long run you will be able to achieve great things (if not greater) in your new job because you bring with you all the skills and experience from the last. No need to be nervous! all your Javascript skills have lead you to Go and the great things you are doing with it. (Netflix is Javascript in this scenario ;))

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LETS GOOOOO!!! I was so worried this was going to be an I quit content creating video.

This guy has single handedly given me the most inspiration possible to keep thriving in the field of computer science and to also be a good person while doing so, im so grateful for your content prime. I wish you great things ahead

this is it he quitted vim

10 yrs for a 0.8 sec savings in startup.

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1. I'm happy you actually outro'd as Primeagen 2. THE CHANNEL NAME IS FINALLY CORRECT OMG. WTF IS THEPRIMTIME ANYWAY As a youtube frog and as someone who is working as a SWE, I enjoyed this channel because you were also in the trenches. You weren't some UI developer who got youtube clout and went on to become a Dev Rel claiming to do engineering work. You actually did the work with scars and war stories to show for it. I'd like to congratulate you. Your career is #goals and I would be stoked to have an iota of it in my career. I'm rooting for you on this new endeavor. It only makes sense.

Dude congratulations. Love this channel. Looking forward to so much more good quality content.

Wow, awesome, good luck on the new pursuits! Looking forward to seeing what you create and the Pirateagen Podcast!

So now you have time to create that TERRARIA cpu huh?

I know that converting time sucks for all devs but dude you're seriously late for april fools

Can't wait to see more from you Captain, I think we all have to thank you for all you're doing in the space

Actually huge. You’ve been a massive influence in my career and helped to get me started up in my job journey. You’re an inspiration man. I can’t wait to see what you do 😁

can you oil up before you go?

Its the of 4th April, not the first, this isnt funny prime 😢

Good lord, had a heart attack. Just found this channel a few months back and thought you were saying you were done with doing videos. I love your content and sense of humor and look forward to every video.

Since PirateSoftware, I felt this was coming. You are an inspiration Papa Prime. Good Luck for your new chapter. ❤🎉

You are totally amazing man, best wishes for what is from now! Would be amazing to help with it.