Balooga

Is your request made one-on-one or in front of the whole "guys" group? If it is not one-on-one, then you have set the other person up in front of the entire group.

> "I feel excluded by 'guys', any chance we could settle on something else?"

In agreeing to your preference this person can no longer use the word 'guys' at all, ever? Or they can, but before doing so must first scan the faces of everyone in the group and if they see you then use an alternate?

This is the problem with personal preferences. They are personal to you, not to anyone else.

If your company orders pizza for lunch and your personal preference is for no pepperoni, then expect that the person placing the order asks for a cheese pizza and several pepperoni pizzas. Don't expect that everyone gets cheese pizza.

Get rid of the fixed mortgage rate. Owners will sell when they can't afford the mortgage rate; the new owner will pay property taxes at the current rate.

Apart from the US, there aren't may other countries that allow fixed rate mortgages, and not a 30-year fixed.

Well, the law says that the person behind the wheel is responsible.

This is called a dichotomy. People are able to hold two opposing views in their heads without too much trouble.

For example; I hate to think of cows being tortured or otherwise abused. I do like a good hamburger.

This was back in 1996 and we were the primary systems integrators for the new Malaysian Astro direct to home satellite broadcasting service. Which meant we were responsible for getting the new Conditional Access systems, new program guide systems, new mpeg video and audio encoders producing new streams, into new multiplexers, all installed into a new facility with new everything else, into a Transport Stream, up and down from a new satellite, and into a new set top box and working.

That job taught me the value of good specifications.

Graduated from college and day one in my first real job, I was handed a hardcopy of the MPEG-2 transport stream spec and told to read it and come back with questions.

That's how you onboard.

How about instead of just saying what's wrong, say what's better?

My parents still have the fridge they received as a wedding present in 1969 from my mom's parents. Still running as the second fridge in the garage.

This isn't the ME's domain so they aren't aware of the guardrails to enforce.

For example in years gone by, the ME may have requested data and would have been provided a weekly SQL dump of relevant data in CSV format. No harm if that data is becomes corrupted as it will be replaced in a couple days time.

But now, the ME can prompt the LLM. The LLM may search the company wiki, emails, Sharepoint servers, discover some AWS credentials, and directly access whatever environments those credentials allow, perhaps the production systems. The ME didn't know to tell the LLM to not do this. The ME asked for "n", and the LLM went off and did a bunch of stuff to accomplish "n". Huge harm if production data becomes corrupted, tables modified, etc.

Back in the day, folks without software skills were able to build certain things themselves; from standalone Microsoft Access databases with simple Visual Basic 6 frontends, to finance maintaining huge spreadsheets as pseudo databases, etc.

The issue now is that LLMs increase the blast radius. Before it was one person lighting a firecracker. Now it's one person setting fire to the fireworks factory. For example, the LLM exposes the ME's tools and internal company data to the Internet.

> Seems like AI could help massively there, by removing a huge bottleneck around technical elaboration and application seeking.

Are you proposing that humanity should rely on AI to determine the fields of study that should be perused and those that should be defunded?

Why don't you first come up with an AI that can predict if the stock market will go up or down tomorrow, with 99.999% accuracy. Should be really simple as it only needs to answer what will happen tomorrow.

After that, come up with the AI that will predict how actions or non-actions today may affect outcomes 100 years into the future.

Agreed. What surprised me is just how small a single serving of peanuts is. 28 grams - 180 calories. Spoiler, that's a lot less than two handfuls and going back for seconds.

> How about; if it's already documented, make it available to the end user.

There's documentation, and then there's documentation. What passes for documentation in the modern era is scattershot over thousands of JIRA tickets and Confluence pages. Most outdated.