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It's easy with hindsight to believe you could have capped expense at 200% medicare but getting what we got passed was nearly impossible at the time. Before Affordable Care Act, ins…

Those with a bit more experience understand faster is not always better. Databases thought to be battle-tested encounter incredibly complex and near impossible to predict failures …

LLMs do not encode nor encrypt their training data. The fact they can recite training data is a defect not a default. You can understand this more simply by calculating the model s…

This is an historic moment in AI-generated software history. Happy to be here. Hi Grandchildren! FYI, I built a VERY fun prompt to interact with that fully captures the style of th…

MongoDB Atlas was around 500% more expensive than in-house every time I evaluated it (at almost every scale they offer as well). They also leaned too heavily on sharding as a unive…

A huge benefit of single-database operations at scale is point-in-time recovery for the entire system thereby not having to coordinate recovery points between data stores. Alternat…

Missed a huge opportunity to play the sound of a monstrous wooden door sound when the lid closes. Looking forward to the update!

I think the other important step is to reject code your engineers submit that they can't explain for a large enterprise saas with millions of lines of code. I myself reject I'd say…

This was a good read and great work. Can't wait to see the performance tests. Your write up connected some early knowledge from when I was 11 where I was trying to set up a databas…

So there's this thing called "Setup Scripts" but they don't explicitly say these are equivalent to AWS Metadata and configured inside of Codex web interface - not a setup.sh or a p…

Counter-point A: AI coding assistance tools are rapidly advancing at a clip that is inarguably faster than humans. Counter-point B: AI does not get tired, does not need space, does…

I'm pro-accessibility and have contributed privately to blind developer initiatives. Unfortunately Ubisoft insists on implement user-hostile accessibility that screams at the user …

From day one. We would have had LLMs years before if Google wasn't holding back. They knew the risk - google search would be dead as soon as the internet were flooded with AI conte…

I am going to cite you in a decade. Already today ChatGPT is _far_ better than Google. Instead of finding a keyword optimized page for "frob language", I can get the objectively be…

This is actually perfect for AI robots to blend in waiting in public. Just like bartenders polishing glasses, you can't have them just staring making people uncomfortable.

Location: Miami/Ft. Lauderdale Area, Florida Remote: Yes Relocate: No Tech: Node.js, MongoDB, TypeScript, React, GitHub Workflow/Actions Skills: Tech leadership, product vision, kn…

Your TV, amplifier, or sound bar should have a night mode that does this for you.

Google is becoming less useful in many ways. Their "push for AI adoption" in sheets and docs proves they no longer know how to build products people want to use and must use tactic…

If I'm not mistaken it was a factor in recruiting in general as evidenced by another leak.

I'll bandwagon on chat.com getting 10% or higher marketshare. Look back at Google search's 800 number; https://techcrunch.com/2013/05/12/google-kills-sms-search/ (the only article …

Their first example is basically pretending basic promise concurrency on maps doesn't exist when it's been around before Promises were an official API (Search: bluebird promise map…

Node.js pipe and map are standard implementations most developers understand. I do not know what these strange implementations are from this library. They do not make sense to me. …

I'm not sure I know the use case for all of this logical complexity. Is there a specific use-case you had in mind? Split the array of elements to process. Set up a promise.all agai…

Location: South Florida / Miami / Ft Lauderdale / West Palm Beach Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Email: brentmcahren@gmail.com Resume: Available upon request via email. I've h…

Try living downtown in South Florida.