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charbullon Software Craftsmanship Is Dead

with LLMs in a few years software would be a low level thingy that people used to spend hours writing and debugging. like assembly back in the day. software is becoming more and more cheaper to put in place. craftsmanship is in the product and value not in the software itself. we are in an era: adapt or get out ...

charbullon Ask HN: SWEs who switched to AI/ML, how is it going?

Switched to an AI team 8 months ago. Ended up doing infra and api integration for llm tuning which is a nice way to start ramping up to the field. With every integration learned new things: Lora/pets, spin up servers to host the models for inference/tuning. It's a lot of learn on the spot compared to concepts from SWE life.

charbullon ChatGPT-4 significantly increased performance of business consultants

slideware professionals got better at making slides with LLMs

charbullon The Fall of Stack Overflow

I now find so many answers on geek for geeks website, it comes with a well written documentation

charbullon The global fight for critical minerals is costly and damaging

isn't that the quest of every galaxy wars movie...

charbullon Llama 2

it's not really open source https://github.com/facebookresearch/llama/blob/main/LICENSE

charbullon Using ChatGPT for home automation

very cool !

charbullon Association between influenza vaccination and risk of stroke in Alberta, Canada

100%

charbullon The SAFe Delusion

I had a very good experience using safe 4.x The whole department participated. Edge Software Cloud platform Application team

It allowed the 3 teams to have better communication, things were written, we knew what we are building and how/who is using it. Met with stakeholders regularly for feedback and better understanding of the business in general, the strategy and why we need to land this feature either to differentiate or because it is priority 0 asked by many customers.

As a team member safe allowed me to understand why what I am working on is important for the business and how it brings value.

I wonder if it is a people problem that we are blaming safe for or an actual process problem?

charbullon On the cheap, like a local, and without a lot of luggage

But then your spending your time at the mall instead of exploring

charbullon I don’t believe in sprints

Disagree. In one of the companies I worked for. Management decided to adopt safe agile. We had a dedicated agile coach for the whole department. Each team went to learn the safe agile principles and framework. The main focus was how do three teams get more aligned when building a solution: edge software, cloud software, application layer. I can say after 3 months of sprints. The productivity improved, people were happier and now we know which feature is used by whom. The requirements were forced to become clear so it be translated into designs and then dev work with the definition of done. When properly applied with the right intentions it is transformative.

charbullon AWS vs. GCP reliability is wildly different

Can you put this in context of the problem/use case /need you are solving for ?

charbullon GraphQL kinda sucks

What about sparql?

charbullon A new carbon capture plant will pull 36k tons of CO2 from the air each year

Can't we just plant trees ?!? And take care of the oceans? Plankton and trees are the answer !

We are removing trees to build giant factories ?

charbullon Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, death by 85%

The data sample is a bit low? 1200 people