Reminds me this great story from a different era:
A software engineer that loves Disroot and the team behind it.
Reminds me this great story from a different era:
I keep telling myself that in the ideal world, phones would be programmed in Forth.
That comment… Oh my, I want to joke and talk someone like you! Now!
I tried searching for research on it, but only found results claiming this didn’t work… Not actual scientific research, but better than “we think this should work, so now we’ll try selling it”
And “Y” stands for “Your Mom”. But it was a one night stand…
I’m beginning to feel we’re no longer talking about Clean Code being bad, but about people following ideas they don’t understand, which is not related or caused to any particular book.
I hope your book won’t have a table of context and those stupid indexes. If they read it, they should know where you mention topics, right? Tables of contents considered harmful! /s
I’d love to learn what that damage was. I often see complaints (sometimes also involving tech choices) but usually they’re not specific, so I’m always left wondering.
C Tesseract has this interstellar vibe and brings quotes like the following, but with a totally different meaning:
That’s the next level of trolling!
I want people like you around me!
I’m trying to convince a senior developer from the team I’m a member of, to stop using copilot. They have committed code that they didn’t understand (only tested to verify it does what it’s expected to do). I doubt it’d succeed…
They’ve got Paid BSOD, I’ve got FreeBSD, we’re not the same.
You were so close! The right solution is of course training an AI model that detects credentials and rejects commits that contain them!
I’m not ignoring the other two things listed, I’m realistic.
You described it like it was something rare for FAANG to do bad things. Or like it was bad only when it required whistleblowing… Think how many things got crushed by EEE tactics, and it’s only one class of examples of why big tech is inherently bad.
You could say the same about eating meat or any other cause. What’s the difference, the animal is already dead anyway, right? Well, it’s not that simple.
Thanks to the growing number of people who eat less or no meat at all, meat production is decreasing. If all of them kept saying that one man boycott makes no difference, the change would not come.
If you can’t find a better job - fine, work for the evil FAANG or whatever. We live in capitalism and it’s clear we need to work somewhere. But at least be honest and don’t look away from inconvenient truth. There’s still something good you could do while keeping the job at $evil_company
. For example, you can support financially those who haven’t got nice jobs in IT.
If the person who drew that comic understood anything about complex systems or why agile works when used properly, it could make sense. But it doesn’t.
My main concern with people making fun of such cases is about deficiencies of “AI” being harder to find/detect but obviously present.
Whenever someone publishes a proof of a system’s limitations, the company behind it gets a test case to use to improve it. The next time we - the reasonable people arguing that cybernetic hallucinations aren’t AI yet and are dangerous - try using such point, we would only get a reply of “oh yeah, but they’ve fixed it”. Even people in IT often don’t understand what they’re dealing with, so the non-IT people may have even more difficulties…
Myself - I just boycott this rubbish. I’ve never tried any LLM and don’t plan to, unless it’s used to work with language, not knowledge.
Now I’d love to see a Perl monk comic!
If you enjoyed it, I’ve collected a couple of others:
https://untalkative.one/reading:2019:good-stories