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It did, in at least one way: https://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/reference/web/webmvc...

That ... wasn't the kerfuffle

"They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown." - Carl Sagan In a shocking twist, the prompter wor…

It was a choice. I chose it and I wish it was never a choice I considered.

I was unemployed before Meta.

As I learned while burning through all my savings in the 2023-2024 timeframe: You are free to have principles, but principles aren't free. I am ashamed I worked there.

Basically: 1. You smash out rubbish as quickly as you can. 2. You get credit for "shipping" and "moving fast". 3. It is later learned by management that the rubbish is rubbish. But…

Focusing on your first point: Memorization isn't everything. But it's not nothing either. Sometimes it's nice to be able to just bang out some code without looking everything up. I…

> I do not understand how can someone with so much money produce such a low quality products. It's what management rewards.

Exciting. Honestly I expect this will do more to advance bitemporal design than decades of jawboning has. And really, ranges are an amazing substrate for this. I've had to do this …

The trap is that you can't get better without first getting worse. You can't get out of the destructive cycle of production pressure and decaying productivity without removing the …

AI slots quite neatly into the capability trap model, actually. Which loop it belongs to in the model is left as an exercise for the reader.

You'll see capability traps everywhere once you learn about them. Sterman, Repenning and other collaborators wrote several papers after this one. All fascinating and almost entirel…

> questions: WHY has it become the standard? 1. It coincidentally aligns with the interests of the C-suite. They are mostly compensated in stock, and compensation mostly set by oth…

Thanks, I appreciate it.

It is ... problematic ... to lead with "anti-AI" and then bury terms like "judicious in our use of it" in the fine print. IMO a team like yours can either: * Use LLMs, in which cas…

Mate until last week I had quite literally unlimited, unmetered access to frontier models from every major lab. No quotas, no brownouts, none of the stuff civilians gripe about. Ch…

When I see a complex socioeconomic phenomenon described as "just" I know for certain that someone is about to spectacularly fail to have read books. This is value stream mapping. N…

I recognize all these words, I can sense, perceive, parse and reason about all of these words. Yet I cannot derive a sensible meaning from them. The pragmatics is of a flailing fis…

Management is waaaayyy ahead of you on all of those suggestions.

Hard to say, lots of things I guess. One was that I was never good at the current interview triad and needed to practice it a lot. Another was my resume, not impressive to a certai…

I work at Meta (though after next Wednesday, maybe not). I signed the petition. Am I hypocrite? I think another version of me would think so. I signed up because nobody else would …

There aren't enough things an executive can go to jail for. Fines don't do anything to deter bad behavior. Either: * The company pays * They pay and the company mysteriously increa…

More accurately, PostgreSQL features ChatGPT is excited about.

For those wanting to do it for web pages, I've been keeping an eye on https://www.gomponents.com