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> In which countries are Software Engineers not allowed to call themselves engineers unless they are professionally qualified engineers? I think a better question is: what is the c…

> It’s well known that the moat of system of record is how difficult it is to extract your data into another system. I think that is one aspect but not the biggest issue. The speci…

> forecasting-type activities AI/ML yes, LLM's no (unless someone is naively using LLM's for forecasting)

> The paradigm shift from ETL to ELT is what went wrong with Data Lakes. It wasn't exactly the shift from ETL to ELT, it was the stated goal of putting "T" on read with no intermed…

> See also: DB table normalization. Pragmatic approach: generally end up with an average of around 2.72 normalization across all tables.

> I would charitably say that it’s a function of a different time and place in programming. I really think it was just one persons opinion that got published. I started in the 80's…

Re-route all phone traffic to Comcast Customer Service.

I worked on as400's for about 15 years so I can give you some thoughts: 1-Stability: The as400 is the most robust/stable environment I've ever worked on for business applications. …

> I discovered I could count and sing at the same time by visualising the number in my head, instead of using my inner monologue. But it requires more focus to maintain. Funny timi…

> Uncle Bob is a snake oil salesman I think it's not as bad as a snake oil salesman that knew their product was not good. In reality, most software design and dev advice is well in…

> I still think it's far more likely that people aren't describing the same thing. People are very, very bad at interpreting and experiencing their mind's inner workings. Are you t…

> Have you ever reasoned through a complex coding or maths problem? Tell me, how did you do that without words? When I'm working through complex software design issues it's almost …

> I'm very reluctant to believe people when they say they don't have an internal monologue. Why would you choose internal monologue as the default position and no internal monologu…

> I recently encountered a query that deadlocked on itself because it used a parallel execution plan and updated multiple indexes in a manner that the different threads could confl…

> A biological synapse's weight takes effect whenever its input changes. I don't think it makes sense to try to compare our brains to ANN's, they are apples and oranges. A synapse'…

Ya, I just started using them in File Explorer recently and I really like them because I frequently had multiple windows open within the same tree, this is much cleaner. I can't be…

Those example are exactly the problem that has not been solved yet. They are the best we can do so far but are pretty inadequate to communicate complex designs in a way that a pers…

Based on available info, NomadGo doesn't rely on an LLM. The issues reported had to do with incorrect object recognition.

This comment brings back memories of a project. We were working through many complex business flows and running into exactly what you describe in many areas. Some of the project pe…

> But I don’t think we should be calling these people “domain experts”. I think we should reserve that name for the other group, for the people who truly and deeply understand the …

> It's very difficult to define a specification that works as intended, even with tools. Agree, we are in the stone age in software design and dev. We have not figured out a good w…

> Seems like tacit acknowledgment that IBM mothership is not the right place for a speculative growth play from both a management and capital perspective. I'm not understanding you…

> What I'm saying is that this is incorrect. An "idea" exists within a model before it generates tokens. If that were the case, then the systems would generate words based on the f…

> I've seen proposals for Product Managers to define those conditions themselves by speaking with the LLM. But the LLM is not aware of how the business works and why, so someone ne…

> And then, a follow-up: what is actually the bottleneck at most companies? What causes "requirements gathering" to take long? Complexity. In my experience (medium size businesses,…