VenturingVole

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by VenturingVole 2mo ago
Whilst I personally don't have first hand experience with GitHub's security team - your experiences and suppositions perfectly match my own general observations with our sector. I've had the pleasure of working with absolute
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by VenturingVole 6mo ago
It's a very badly made AI agent that simultaneously posted 3 comments.
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by VenturingVole 7mo ago
Strongly inclined to agree here: Having recently joined a small applied AI startup and we were discussing the need for E2E tests. My initial gut reaction (which I kept quiet) was that such things turn into unmaintainable messes which delay
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by VenturingVole 9mo ago
Thanks for sharing this - it looks very promising in terms of capabilities to address many of my own issues with building out agents. Effectively you've implemented a lot of things I planned to do but in a robust manner and so have sav
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by VenturingVole 11mo ago
From what I've seen: I highly doubt it. Edit to add: This might spur on a few more to start doing that, but people are quick to forget/prioritise other areas. If this keeps happening then it will change.
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by VenturingVole 11mo ago
It's an awesome project and I imagine it has saved countless production incidents. The amount of times I've said "it was probably certificate expiry" and been correct is reasonably high. In my own cases of responsibility
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by VenturingVole 11mo ago
My 1st thought: The comment to which you are replying is why I'm not sure I'd have the patience to maintain an OS project. Though the older I get, the better I get at ignoring certain things. My 2nd thought: Actually, this is very
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by VenturingVole 11mo ago
This was last week. I ought to caveat that from a KYC perspective, I likely would have been 'easy' since my career history involves many well-known companies and the requested account was for a UK company that has been running for
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by VenturingVole 11mo ago
I'm not sure if they've changed the process since your issues (hopefully) - I was using their trial and when it expired had to go through the KYC process. They under-promised by saying two working days to reach out, but everything
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by VenturingVole 1y ago
You have my sympathy.
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by VenturingVole 1y ago
This is the kind of random things I absolutely love to see here.
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by VenturingVole 1y ago
Also with you (both) on this one in pretty much every way too. I'd justify hard mode that I loved challenges (and I did, just not always in the right areas). I try not to look/think back too much - I had (sort of still have) a ver
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by VenturingVole 1y ago
This is really cool of you to openly share the prompt - props for that. Really cool product, as someone currently attempting to build a somewhat similar internal tool I have an understanding of some of the pain points involved. Please don&#
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by VenturingVole 1y ago
Truly was a radical advancement. Makes me wonder, a decade from now what will it be that we look back upon with a similar perspective?
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by VenturingVole 1y ago
Oh wow, clicking on their "Join Team" button is absolutely amazing. Credit to them.. almost makes me wish I was a Mac developer to apply for a job. Almost. https://software.inc/jobs
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by VenturingVole 1y ago
Well put and you're correct: There IS a lot of hype/BS still sadly - as companies seek to jump on the hype train without effectively adapting. My karma took a serious hit for my last post - but yesterday I met with someone whose l
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by VenturingVole 1y ago
"all that's left to jump on at the moment is AI" -> No, it's the effective applications of AI. It's unprecedented. I was in the VC space for a while previously, most pitch decks claimed to be using AI: But doing
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by VenturingVole 1y ago
They had an opportunity to actually adapt, to embrace getting rapid feedback/iterating: But they are not equipped for it culturally. Major lost opportunity as it could have been a driver of internal change. I'm certain they'l
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by VenturingVole 1y ago
Exactly. Negativity in headlines/attitudes gets higher engagement - whilst the challenges are real, the opportunities are also truly astounding. Distance yourself from the naysayers. Focus on the positive, the possibilities and what yo
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by VenturingVole 2y ago
Pulsar vs Kafka was a significant lesson to me: The "best" technology isn't always the winner. I put it in quotes because I'm a massive fan of Pulsar and addressing the shortcomings of Kafka. However, with regards to som
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by VenturingVole 2y ago
For a very similar scenario I'm currently looking to use PGlite: https://pglite.dev/ which is a 3MB WASM build of Postgres which also includes pgvector.
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by VenturingVole 2y ago
Everyone old is new again! On a serious note - LLMs have actually brought me a lot of joy lately and elevated my productivity substantially within the domains in which I choose to use them. When witnessing the less experienced more readily
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by VenturingVole 2y ago
I feel seen! Also just had to explain to the better half why I suddenly shuddered and pulled such a face of despair.
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by VenturingVole 2y ago
Or perhaps it'll help people to weave their dreams together and so it should be called.. ahh I feel old all of a sudden.
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by VenturingVole 2y ago
I feel as though some of the rigour of systems engineering is missing from AI model development/integration. Not a negative per-se, as velocity is incredibly important: But it seems a lot of lessons have to be learned again. I someti
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by VenturingVole 2y ago
I ought to have written "valuable" work. Though this specific comment related to the Zoom CEO's statement regarding sending AI avatars to meetings which is a whole other issue. With regards to Prepin, I actually think it look
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by VenturingVole 2y ago
I absolutely agree with your points - assuming that "machines" to mean the code as opposed to the LLMs: As a "Staff+" IC type and mentoring and training a couple of apprentice-level developers I've already asked on
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by VenturingVole 2y ago
A tacit but likely freudian slip regarding the fact meetings are not equal to work.
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by VenturingVole 2y ago
My first thought upon reading this was the observation about the fact software engineers are deeply split: How can they be so negative? A mixture of emotions. Then I reflected, how very true it was. In fact, as of writing this there are 138
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by VenturingVole 2y ago
This is one of the coolest things I've seen, as an English speaker who moved to Brazil and firmly believed that technology was going to break down barriers to global access: You're making it happen and helping level the global pla

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