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First of a multi-part series describing how we use LLMs to digitize the notoriously offline and messy food supply chain.

This seems impossibly broad. Realistically an agent would only be able to take tasks for whatever limited domain it can execute on.

So either every approach it does has to be hard coded or it would be able to use a bunch of very generic modules to plan and execute an approach.

> Their engineers and scientists have invented digital cocaine

They bought Instagram and WhatsApp because they couldn't figure anything out.

Then why am I still messing around with Axum and friends and people using Go are shipping microservices like there's no tomorrow?

I think here you're pointing at something along the lines of Roc/Gleam?

I'm dealing with Rust based error handling now and nesting `match` statements is not exactly very happy. Or having to pull in `anyhow` and dealing with its awful awful documentation.

> water flowed toward Amsterdam unnoticed

I'm glad we in tech are not the only ones that deal with these kind of monitoring issues.

An instructive story about the limitations of Lambda as a platform and how sooner or later you will move to ‘boring’ technology and be happy that you did.

Other people do use this: https://cuppin.gs/ but realistically I only make it for myself.

We have coffee venues from different parts of the world but they become red ("picked") only if I and my friends travel there. The main use case for the app is still me being somewhere--mostly in my hometown these days--opening up my phone and looking for a good cup of coffee. Other people can take or leave that proposition.

Maybe people in CS should enjoy learning things about CS and not do the bare minimum?

Yes, Capisco gang!

This is pretty much entirely it.

We use AWS WAF for a bunch of this which is necessary because the other AWS components are so dumb. We definitely don't want to overcomplicate our WAF setup. Good enough is good enough.

No go because they need to "manage" this. Everything needs to be synchronized, people need to be aligned. All the busy work needs to go somewhere.

It's not about the productivity, it's about the culture and the shared experiences. It would be tough to argue that those two things don't matter for the success of a company.

> Become an angel investor, since they are getting a much better deal, I might as well join them.

I think yeah. Dan Luu was also getting at this on twitter.

> I spent about 1.5days of my personal time off which at my current market rate is close to 1k USD.

Seriously, then don't interview.

I've done 4 interviews/week for a while. It's not that bad (but I genuinely enjoy it).

Choco | DevOps Engineer, Senior+ Backend Engineer, Engineering Manager | Berlin | On site (relocation assistance) | Full-time

About us: We're digitising the global food supply chain to make it more sustainable.

DevOps Engineer: We use AWS exclusively which means our challenge is to provide a good developer experience and business value. Some Lambda curiosity would be good as well as Observability and Security but we will have work across the stack. https://choco.com/position-details?gh_jid=4438046003

Senior+ Backend: Help us scale up and out and propel the engineering team forward. Stack: NodeJS, GraphQL, Lambda. https://choco.com/position-details?gh_jid=4216795003

Engineering Manager: We have fully cross-functional stream aligned teams where you will have a top notch first-team who have worked on building the company to this point and who are eager to get things to the next level. https://choco.com/position-details?gh_jid=4214710003

For more details see: https://choco.com/careers

There isn’t a good library for progressive enhancement. I know you can write it yourself quickly but it’s still boilerplate.

I’ve reluctantly used Travis for the last years and hardly seen new features or long standing open bugs being fixed.

Not sure what the people were doing but this seems typical for a Ruby project.

I am amazed/not amazed that they write financial applications in this language (and do not have the common sense to not do it).

That's the most curious part, that he wants to go more low-level with Swift instead of high-level.

Systems programming seems well catered for with Java, Go and Rust while high level application programming is left at the mercy of javascript (I like TypeScript but it's mostly improvements borrowed from C# that are bolted on). I think there would be a lot to gain there first and foremost by compiling Swift to WebAssembly.

Kotlin would be unnecessary if Apple would do the work to interop/compile Swift both to the JVM ecosystem and the JavaScript one.

Unfortunately Apple's ambition on swift seems to have stalled.

This is not exclusive to Uber. By now I'd say that most companies with skewed diversity statistics likely are toxic and dysfunctional.

This might be one of the cases where being in a small country is useful. You can get significant coverage to validate a model quickly before exporting it internationally.

Are current Linux distributions as good as this yet?

The non broadcast part of TapTalk feels limiting at first as a sender but it hugely improves the quality of the stuff you receive.

Snapchat from over here looks like an American fad. The news about how broken their approach to privacy is probably didn't help it much either.

Currently my Instagram social stream is being polluted with all kind of people I don't know or don't want to know thanks to Facebook's social integration. I shudder to think what would happen if Facebook would connect their social graph to a direct and intimate photo sharing service.

Ultimately two things are broken:

- Facebook's idea of what social is does not mesh with how most people see it. They seem to have huge problems dealing with non-public interactions and what that would mean for their business.

- Facebook's product design culture seems to have a hard time breaking out of the Silicon Valley bubble and adding stuff of relevance to actual people's day to day existence.

I can imagine a situation where Germany levies an import tax on Facebook at the border of the secure European internet.

That's not really the problem. The problem is that tech combined with capital kills jobs and concentrates power/money with a very small group of people who then do everything they can to gut the public sector.

There is still an immense amount of work to be done in schools, hospitals and social services that is not being obsoleted by technology anytime soon. It is not being done or done well because of a lack of money.

The solution then is much more taxes on capital, much less on human labour and way more redistribution.