jacques_chester

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by jacques_chester 19d ago
From the same author: https://grugbrain.dev/#grug-on-saying-no
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by jacques_chester 3mo ago
It did, in at least one way: https://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/reference/web/webmvc...
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by jacques_chester 3mo ago
That ... wasn't the kerfuffle
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by jacques_chester 3mo ago
"They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown." - Carl Sagan In a shocking twist, the prompter works in VC.
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by jacques_chester 3mo ago
It was a choice. I chose it and I wish it was never a choice I considered.
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by jacques_chester 3mo ago
I was unemployed before Meta.
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by jacques_chester 3mo ago
As I learned while burning through all my savings in the 2023-2024 timeframe: You are free to have principles, but principles aren't free. I am ashamed I worked there.
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by jacques_chester 3mo ago
Basically: 1. You smash out rubbish as quickly as you can. 2. You get credit for "shipping" and "moving fast". 3. It is later learned by management that the rubbish is rubbish. But crucially, they do not view bugs as ari
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by jacques_chester 3mo ago
Focusing on your first point: Memorization isn't everything. But it's not nothing either. Sometimes it's nice to be able to just bang out some code without looking everything up. IDEs in an IDE-friendly language make this awa
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by jacques_chester 3mo ago
> I do not understand how can someone with so much money produce such a low quality products. It's what management rewards.
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by jacques_chester 3mo ago
Exciting. Honestly I expect this will do more to advance bitemporal design than decades of jawboning has. And really, ranges are an amazing substrate for this. I've had to do this by hand in a ... less featuresome ... SQL-speaking DB a
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by jacques_chester 3mo ago
The trap is that you can't get better without first getting worse. You can't get out of the destructive cycle of production pressure and decaying productivity without removing the pressure. Many managers expect, or at least behave
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by jacques_chester 3mo ago
AI slots quite neatly into the capability trap model, actually. Which loop it belongs to in the model is left as an exercise for the reader.
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by jacques_chester 3mo ago
You'll see capability traps everywhere once you learn about them. Sterman, Repenning and other collaborators wrote several papers after this one. All fascinating and almost entirely depressing. Especially since MIT's Sloan schoo
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by jacques_chester 3mo ago
> questions: WHY has it become the standard? 1. It coincidentally aligns with the interests of the C-suite. They are mostly compensated in stock, and compensation mostly set by other members of the C-suite elite. And gosh darn it wou
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by jacques_chester 3mo ago
Thanks, I appreciate it.
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by jacques_chester 3mo ago
It is ... problematic ... to lead with "anti-AI" and then bury terms like "judicious in our use of it" in the fine print. IMO a team like yours can either: * Use LLMs, in which case you aren't "anti-AI". *
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by jacques_chester 4mo ago
Mate until last week I had quite literally unlimited, unmetered access to frontier models from every major lab. No quotas, no brownouts, none of the stuff civilians gripe about. Chairman Mark had handed out the titanium amex and said "
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by jacques_chester 4mo ago
When I see a complex socioeconomic phenomenon described as "just" I know for certain that someone is about to spectacularly fail to have read books. This is value stream mapping. No, business process reengineering. No, systems dyn
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by jacques_chester 4mo ago
I recognize all these words, I can sense, perceive, parse and reason about all of these words. Yet I cannot derive a sensible meaning from them. The pragmatics is of a flailing fish singing Waltzing Matilda to a teleporting cucumber. There&
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by jacques_chester 4mo ago
Management is waaaayyy ahead of you on all of those suggestions.
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by jacques_chester 4mo ago
Hard to say, lots of things I guess. One was that I was never good at the current interview triad and needed to practice it a lot. Another was my resume, not impressive to a certain kind of hiring manager and recruiter. Still another was th
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by jacques_chester 4mo ago
I work at Meta (though after next Wednesday, maybe not). I signed the petition. Am I hypocrite? I think another version of me would think so. I signed up because nobody else would take me on by the time they offered me something. After havi
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by jacques_chester 4mo ago
There aren't enough things an executive can go to jail for. Fines don't do anything to deter bad behavior. Either: * The company pays * They pay and the company mysteriously increases next year's comp / grants a "
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by jacques_chester 5mo ago
More accurately, PostgreSQL features ChatGPT is excited about.
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by jacques_chester 5mo ago
For those wanting to do it for web pages, I've been keeping an eye on https://www.gomponents.com
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by jacques_chester 5mo ago
If it's not in an 8K filing it isn't real.
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by jacques_chester 5mo ago
> with tools that aren’t well supported This is an odd thing to say about the backend choices. Spring is ... well let's just say there are a few folks in and around that area.
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by jacques_chester 5mo ago
Maybe he was a great guy. But people change. It seems as though having your brains marinated in money is highly neurotoxic, no matter how you started off. (Anyway: the main offence is using the term "jerk" instead of "wanker&
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