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exactly right. POCs and demos are easy to build by anyone these days. The last 10% is what separates student projects from real products. any engineer who has spent time in the tre…

I got laid off thrice during my 25+ year career during which i have worked at 9 different companies. twice from startups in each of the previous busts and once from a large company…

sucks... after the dot-com bust, i took a job that involved a 70 mile commute (each way) which was about 100 minutes on the road on average each way. At the time, i thought that wa…

not sure i agree, i went to school in the 90's as well, and out of 9 jobs I have held since, 4 came through cold-applications and 5 through referrals. referrals imo have a better c…

nice project ! and attempt to modernize the spreadsheet tech stack. be warned though, that the feature-set of the modern spreadsheet is gigantic, with tentacles in hundreds of nook…

well said. agree 100%. papers like these - and i did skim through it, are thinking "within the box" as follows: we have a system, and it has a problem, how do we fix the problem "w…

I will have to disagree with the author on specifics (but agree on the broad premise) it is not what the foundational knowledge "is" - but "how" the foundational knowledge is "unpa…

thanks for this comment ! it clarifies the function of the llm well. ie, use it as a template-generating search-engine helper for most common things. for uncommon things, you have …

I would have liked to see a giant ppt of an agentic framework or architecture. Call it Enterprise Agentic Framework or something like that. The architecture diagram would fill an e…

every hype cycle runs through a predictable course. we are at a phase where the early adopters have seen the writing on the wall.. ie that llms are useful for a limited set of usec…

you are quoting the party-line. i am saying, the thing is snake-oil - a solution looking for a problem.

whats hilarious in this farce is how these are being rebranded from "co-pilots" to "agents" just goes to show, it is all a big song-and-dance. much ado about nothing.

Mgmt at every company is asked - what are you doing to be agentic ? so, they organize hackathons where devs build a hypothetical agentic framework nobody will dare use. So, mgmt ca…