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I agree with the point about dogmatism, but I have so many other issues with this piece. I mean... how do you even make the comparison between "A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsm…

I got downvoted for asking a related question recently, but I also don't think people really understood what I was asking - I'm not trying to anthropomorphise LLMs to that extent. …

I've often wondered if LLMs can suffer from psychological abuse in symptomatic ways. Not literally of course, but for example, if you berate the LLM by calling it stupid, or useles…

It's also one of my major issues I have with how this is being introduced into many enterprises, including the company I work for: "Here's AI. Figure out how we can make money from…

"Conceptual integrity" is something I always try to adhere to when I design and build systems. I also use it also a bit of an indicator when gauging someone's experience. For examp…

Background: I am a coder, not a mathematician, but I was quite entertained by this story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47903126 I wondered how far I could get by just choos…

What was the "pattern" before this in these fields? What is the current pattern in other industries? Does the pattern exist elsewhere in the world?

> Venting is important. Of course. But you shouldn't run retros that are focused on it.

I personally have never worked in a team where Agile (the concept) has failed. But I've also seen it fail all around me. Especially when it's mandated without buy-in. Or when peopl…

> The only person who seems to claim that Dyson Spheres were a "joke" is Angela Collier and people quoting her. I've seen no other source for this claim. https://www.youtube.com/wa…

The concept of "Dyson spheres" was a joke by Freeman Dyson. It was never meant to be taken seriously. There's a clip about this floating around somewhere in which he finds it funny…

Probably at least slightly misleading, just reading the names of some of the countries in the list (I am from South Africa). Just because a country generates 100% of its energy fro…

> It wasn’t even good to users I may be out of the loop, but how was Bitwarden not "good" to users? Does this relate to the recent price increase?

Too little, too late. In fact, in this post they seem to be committing to keeping it as bad (or even making it even worse) for my use case. I've used Windows since 3.1. Win 11 was …

Can someone explain why LLM's write like this when most humans don't?

> Was he entirely wrong? Yes. I mean... of course he was?. Firstly, I had already gone through this process with multiple LLMs, from various perspectives, including using Deep Rese…

I'm roughly the same (started at 9, currently 48), but programming hasn't really changed for me. What's changed is me having to have pointless arguments with people who obviously h…

I understand what this does. I don't get the hype, but there are obviously 1000s of people who do. Who are these people? What is the analog for this corner of the market? Context: …

I had a lengthy argument about this in our architecture forum. I argued that "re-use" shouldn't be included as an Enterprise (keyword here) Architecture principle because they are …

> People need to stop making Meme distributions. Heh. I've been saying that since I was on Mandrake in the early 2000s. This is just what the Linux landscape is like. That said, I'…

After I read that emotive response I couldn't help but wondering if this wasn't part of a scheme to help someone cover up a crime. This is how I would have responded: "Hi, These do…

These guys are quite well-known in China and have recently started uploading tto Youtube as well. Their videos are quite entertaining and have extremely high production value compa…

I'm referring specifically to the technique mentioned in that video. Yeah it's cool that it's there, but that doesn't seem intuitive at all.