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ebiester
·أمس·discuss
You should do an experiment of splitting that up to multiple reviews that are logically together. My hypothesis is that you may be losing signal due to the amount of text expected back.
ebiester
·قبل 17 يومًا·discuss
https://kunekuneyokai.home.blog/2019/01/18/virgil-abloh-stea... from a quick look.
ebiester
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
I mean, if by right you mean "insiders leaked to make a few bucks..." sure?
ebiester
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
Or, alternatively, they feel like they finally cracked the code and think they can do it better. That's when Apple finally enters a market.

Consider how much money they put in to building a car to cancel it when they decided they couldn't, in fact, do it better. I'm sure there are hundreds - maybe thousands - of failed prototypes along the way.
ebiester
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
If it’s like other things, the auditors of Anthropic will have a contract with OpenAI and vice versa.
ebiester
·قبل شهرين·discuss
It's the concern for the community who pays in higher prices, and the employees in their job stability.

Has everyone forgotten the social contract? We do not exist as communities to make a small number of people richer. If the trade doesn't work for all involved, we change the rules.
ebiester
·قبل شهرين·discuss
One thing that this misses is that in many fields, career retirement chooses you before you choose it. This is often true in development as ageism catches up with you. At some point, you keep doing interviews and nobody says "yes."

Then, even though you have enough money for retirement (or even if you don't), you are answering these questions simultaneously with handling rejection.
ebiester
·قبل شهرين·discuss
I'm so glad YouTube and other podcast players have moved to support 3.0 speed. As I get comfortable with one, I move it up some. For things like sports and "did you know" content, I can go 2.5 if I'm not multitasking. For technical content, sometimes I'm stuck at 1.0.
ebiester
·قبل شهرين·discuss
Parmesan cheese is savory, not sweet.

For people who did not grow up with hershey's, the butyric acid is what makes it taste off.

This is not a question of safety - it is a question of results. They stayed with old technologies and have optimized for cost, not flavor. (And yes, that processing was necessary in the days before a reliable milk source.)
ebiester
·قبل شهرين·discuss
It depends if your goal is to sell the company or evade taxes, of course.
ebiester
·قبل شهرين·discuss
First, no matter what you do, if a human has write access to the production database, the database can be deleted.

Second, there is a legitimate reason to destroy a database in development and automation. The biggest problem I see is often treating your development data like pets not cattle. You absolutely need to have safeguards that this cannot be run in production, but if a human has access to the credentials to run in production, the agent has access.

So, then, what do we do? In a larger organization, we can depend on the dev/ops split to maintain this. For a solo developer, or a small team, it takes a lot more discipline. Even before AI, junior and even mid-level developers didn't have the knowledge to segment. And senior devs often got complacent because they thought they knew enough.

They likely need some combination of https://www.cloudbees.com/blog/separate-aws-production-and-d..., introduction to terraform, introduction to GitHub actions, and some sort of vm where production credentials live (and AI doesn't!)

But at that point you're past vibe coding. And from what I can tell, the successful vibe coders are quickly learning that they need to go past it pretty quickly with all these horror stories.
ebiester
·قبل شهرين·discuss
I have all the empathy for people in the world.

A corporation is not a person. If your organization cannot handle the load, then you need to adjust your practices. The organization needs to prioritize their paying users. The organization needs to shift people from new features to keeping the lights on. And maybe the organization needs to find another strategy to manage its azure transition.
ebiester
·قبل شهرين·discuss
I wrote about this - https://www.ebiester.com/agile/2023/04/22/what-agile-alterna... - Royce was describing what he saw as an anti-pattern that it was risky and invited failure without iterations.

(and my link to the Royce paper isn't working anymore - I need to fix that!) - I am planning on a followup that takes the last 3 years of change in mind.
ebiester
·قبل شهرين·discuss
This is a particular artifact of the government system process. These are contracted pieces of work that Company A would deliver, Company B would administer, and Company C would be contracted out for additional work. Further, all specifications were created ahead of time because changes would cost extra. (Anyone who has done government contracting can talk to the shenanigans involved with it - I have not lived in this world for a long time.)

That said, we still do ad-hoc versions of many of these. For example, a system/segment specification today is an OpenAPI document between microservices. Most larger SaaS companies have the equivalent of a Software Configuration Management plan - Who can change terraform or a GHA, what are the standards that they conform to (linter, peer review standards).
ebiester
·قبل شهرين·discuss
Oh certainly - I'm conflating the adjective of agile with the manifesto of agile. I've been on projects with multi-hundred page design docs and multi-week UATs. And nobody wants to go back to prince2 for example.

The point I was trying to make is we should be diving back into the older methodologies and accumulated wisdom and re-evaluate some of the older dead ends with new context.
ebiester
·قبل شهرين·discuss
There is a lot of room to reevaluate the lessons of software development pre-web in the context of the current environment.

Like, if waterfall of a project can be done in 2 weeks, is it agile now?
ebiester
·قبل شهرين·discuss
Go look up "Tokenmaxxing."

Yes, it's as stupid as it sounds.
ebiester
·قبل شهرين·discuss
Missing here: some organizations were rewarding high token usage as productivity without critical evaluation. People were afraid to be in the bottom because outcomes weren't being measured.

It is a giant Goodhart's law lesson
ebiester
·قبل شهرين·discuss
Can I rephrase it slightly?

Humans have some repeatable bugs in our wetware, and it can be predictably exploited in a way that is hard to correct. It isn't "some people" - it's all of us, and the moment we think we're immune is the moment that we are most easily affected.

Yes, even the smartest of us are idiots in some very predictable ways.
ebiester
·قبل 3 أشهر·discuss
Business/Enterprise accounts are billed at $20/seat + API prices, not subscription prices. You can give them a monthly dollar quota or let them go unlimited, but they're not being subsidized like in team. And team can't get a 20x plan from what I can tell.