twosdai

Basically all those people would go all the same networking events sponsored by yc. There's not pressure so much as these people all have frequent and paid for, opportunities to "hang out" and talk about tech stuff together. Its possible you could define this as "pressure" but I think it's more of who you hangout with rather than some top down implicit force.

Basically anytime we send a signal across a large fiber optic cable we need to convert signal from light back to electricity and that requires some level of photonic computing. Its used at scale today. https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/science/photonics

However I suspect that you mean photonic computing where a computer on chip device uses photons instead of electrons to communicate. In which case, as far as I know is still research phase.

Obviously this depends on teams, application context and code bases. But "knowing if action needs to be taken" can't be boiled into a simple log level for most cases.

There is a reason most alerting software like pagerduty is just a trigger interface and the logic for what constitutes the "error" is typically some data level query in something like datadog, sumologic, elastic search, or graphana, that either looks for specific string messages, error types, or a collection of metric conditions.

Cool if you want to consider that any error level log needs to be an actionable error but what quickly happens is that some error cases are auto retry able due to infrastructure conditions that the application has completely no knowledge of. And to run some sort of infrastructure query at error write time in code, eg

1. Error is thrown 2. Prior to logging guess/determine if the case can be retired through a few http calls. 3. Log either a warning or an error

Seems to be a complete waste when we could just write some sort of query in our log/metrics management platform of choice which takes into account the infrastructure conditions for us.

Its no different now, just the level of effort required to get the code copy is lower.

Whenever I use AI I sit and read and understand every line before pushing. Its not hard. I learn more.

Llms not being able to go from output back to input deterministically and for us to understand why is very important, most of our issues with llms stem from this issue. Its why mechanistic interpretabilty research is so hot right now.

The car analogy is not good because models are digital components and a car is a real world thing. They are not comparable.

The case I can think of most accessible would be anything that streams copywriten video.

Other roles in a software team can handle making a complete test suite for a project, and making sure that it covers all of the required end user functionality. In some shops they will push all of these together into a "fullstack" kind of role, in other software shops they will have dedicated team members who's job it is to handle some of this burden. Interns historically filled in the glue for this.

Basically this type of maintenance work for any sufficiently complex codebase. (Over 20k LOC)

When I was an QA intern / Software Dev Intern. I did all of that junk.

This could just be false though, I can't recall where I heard this information. So do some searching before quoting me.

Additionally the collection, framing and analysis of these events in this intelligence level format using professional techniques and sharing them with the public is good. Multiple sources from different people legitimize and idea and promote it to being more understood. While people (myself included) focus a lot of novelty of ideas, I think novel ideas are the outlier and there is a real need for work like this where data is curated, and analyzed and a simple but clear narrative can be created for readers.

My takeaway from a report like this isn't meant to serve as a "Newsflash" type post where its informing the public of some grave threat we didn't know about. Its to analyze a known trend, provide data and give a deeper level of insights that is digestible to a regular person so they can be more informed about an issue.

For example I didn't know Donald Trump issued 5x the amount of executive orders this presidency than his last. I know he issued a lot, but that figure is new to me.

Just my take though, I get your point that people spreading this idea and encouraging it have a place and at least its not negative. I just don't think that they really are market movers.

So now some people just do it by habit.

Honestly the only place having code like that I see being useful is at the controller level inside an api or other untrusted input validation for an application.

This pinephone project was the last thing I remeber looking into. Not sure where they are at now. But I think they have a number of OSS you can look to contribute to.