mattchamb

I own a BYD, in another minor western aligned country.. I assume that all players are spying on me. Americans, Chinese, they are effectively the same. I just comfort myself by telling myself that if they both have my data then there is less leverage over me overall.

Possibly overly cynical, but I think a lot of people who are getting forced to shoehorn LLMs into their applications don’t have a choice about NOT using an LLM for the required use case.

Testing and validation kind of imply that it won’t ship if it isn’t fit for purpose, which isn’t an option and most devs will know it’s kind of junk already.

That’s not to say there aren’t good use cases, but when forced to add an LLM somewhere it doesn’t work, and you have no examples of “correct” output anyway, validation is usually an afterthought.

Haha that’s a great idea and perspective on tackling it.

Ugh I am dealing with an amazingly productive platform team who churn out so much stuff that the product teams just can’t keep on top of all the changes to tools and tech.

That one team is super productive at the cost of everyone else grinding to a halt.

Everything is a cycle.. for example I am using graphql at work and being heavily reminded of the WSDL and WCF of old

I have to work with a DBA who has decided that nothing new gets developed using Postgres and is confident that our use cases are best served with a document db… all without knowing any of our use cases, requirements or constraints.

Now I just don’t involve him in anything unless forced.

Honestly this is a concern for me in a non boogeyman way. I joined a company to work on their edtech product for kids and got assigned to work on their AI product. I have no idea how to be confident and prove that the gen ai won’t tell the kids harmful things. We can try all kinds of things but I don’t know how to PROVE it won’t.

My uninformed take as a Kiwi is that most cars here are second hand imports from Japan, so we need imported EVs from Japan to pick up.

Also, most people dont buy new cars, and the temperate climate means old cars live a long time, so our rate of replacement must be pretty low.

The company I work at is using step functions heavily and I hate it. Instead of an if statement they make it a new step with the conditional in json, so following the code required you to jump around between files.

It has also been built by contractors who have no incentives to make it run locally or be easy to manage in production, but that isn't specific to step functions, and more due to poor leadership.

To interpret your example in another way, a page working in IE is doing it right. So first you do it, and structure it the way you think it should be done with "correct" markup. Once you have that, you can then do it right and get it working properly in IE. After that, doing it better would be restructuring things so maybe you dont need as many hacks.

I've seen it go wrong where there is a design system, but none of the designs that come in actually match it, so we need to extend the standard components or create whole new ones; but timelines are set as if it's all off the shelf stuff.

Not sure if related, but my 2020 M1 macbook air bricked a week or so after upgrading to Sonoma. I was suspicious if this was related to the update. Luckily the logic board was replaced for free under warranty laws here, though it put me off switching to iphone which I was a day away from doing.

We have a deadline and estimates, now all we need are the requirements...

>I came up with a template that would help me guide the conversation

Maybe it's just a different style, but when I was a manager my 1 on 1s with my team was their chance for them to set the agenda. They had 30 mins of my undivided attention to discuss what THEY wanted to talk about. Except in rare cases, anything on my agenda was fit in at the end or I booked separate time for it.