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Grevian

@josh.hayes-sheen.ca

Dad, Canadian, Staff engineer, Runner, Cyclist

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Ninji 🔜 EF@ninji.dog · 8mo ago

sending someone unsolicited ChatGPT output as an “answer” to their question is just the human equivalent of when an animal picks up a piece of garbage and proudly brings it to you

Kingfisher & Wombat@tkingfisher.com · 11mo ago

Sedation dentistry is no longer weird. Phone cameras are really good. The price of solar panels has dropped by tens of thousands. Southern white rhinos, giant pandas, Arabian oryx and Stellar sea lions are no longer endangered. And, I can testify, modern cancer treatments are fucking amazing.

Molly Knight@mollyknight.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Please give me an unironic list of things that have gotten better over the last ten years because I’m spiraling. I’ll start: you can buy an enormous TV from Costco for like $100 bucks now.

amy brown@amybrown.xyz · 12mo ago

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.
Colin Cornaby@colincornaby.me · last yr.

In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen

In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen

As a restaurant owner - I'm astounded at the rate of progress since microwaves were released a few short years ago. Today's microwave can cook a frozen burrito. Tomorrow's microwave will be able to cook an entire Thanksgiving Dinner. Ten years from now a microwave may even be able to run the country. Recently I was watching a livestream of a local microwave salesman.

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Hazel Weakly@hazelweakly.me · last yr.

“Upfront design helps this” doesn’t work if you build a culture where people are disincentivized to build resilience into the system “Testing and architecture” fails if people are penalized for valuing non coding tasks Slop happens when velocity and PRs per dev are your biggest devex metrics

Cammy@camofclay.bsky.social · last yr.

Like he only read the chapter headings in a book on Kaizen, and missed the need for employees to be deeply engaged in their work, and willing to stop the factory line when the automations aren’t working.

Keith Decent@keithdecent.bsky.social · last yr.

The big “why do you hate AI?” Thread got comments and quotes turned off, but here’s the main reason I hate AI: It’s being developed by the worst people on the planet solely to enrich themselves at the expense and labor of the world’s vulnerable populations. Everything else stems from that

Rich Burroughs@somewhattolerable.com · last yr.

I think Hazel nailed it, in terms of the issue with de-skilling. I think that code generation is a pretty good use case in terms of how good the technology is, but I’m concerned that it’s going to make people worse at coding, especially newer engineers.

Hazel Weakly@hazelweakly.me · last yr.

I realized something recently, which is that we're building AI tools completely backwards. While I was aware that there's some de-skilling happening already, I finally clicked a bunch of pieces together and decided to write this to talk about how we can do *better* hazelweakly.me/blog/stop-bu...

Hazel Weakly@hazelweakly.me · last yr.

Also, it may shock you, but it’s *easier* to test for these things than for most types of “technical aptitude” As a bonus, in my experience, it’s had a stronger correlation to job performance to boot

Hazel Weakly@hazelweakly.me · last yr.

The way I solve this now is by making cheating essentially structurally impossible. You can’t cheat at a “test” where the entire point is assessing: 1. Do you have intellectual humility 2. Do you work well with others 3. Do you evaluate info coherently + critically 4. Can you adapt on the fly

Charity Majors@charity.wtf · last yr.

It is a deliberate strategy to distract and disorient those of us who are not nihilists. The joy they take in seeing liberal tears and tizzy fits is disgusting. They don't get mine. They don't get my tears. They get my stoicism and my rage, and carefully metered doses of my attention.

Brian Rinaldi@remotesynthesis.com · last yr.

This is an important point from a great thread of advice. Sometimes people get confused thinking that paying less attention is like downplaying the situation when it can be part of a deliberate strategy to stay in the game long term.

amy brown@amybrown.xyz · last yr.

i have something to admit that's been weighing heavy on my heart: when i said "no worries" what i actually meant was "i have many worries all the time and this is but a drop in the ocean"

Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com · last yr.

So one of the things that I think is lost on AI proponents is what I call the card catalog effect, a thing I shouldn’t call it because a lot of people probably have no experience with a card catalog.