Ouch. “We are 4 years into this ‘revolution’ and the industry has almost nothing to show for it. Software has not improved in quality, got faster, become cheaper to produce (when you exclude the mountain of poor-quality demoware that no… Read More »Why I remain a skeptic
But towards whom? If you are responsible at work, sometimes you do more than will be appreciated and your family might suffer. But if you do not do it, your colleagues might suffer because something will not work properly. It… Read More »Being Responsible
Nowadays it is quick to get a summary of what happened using LLMs coming back from vacation. But what you miss by that is how it happened. How it got around to the state you have came back to. Seeing… Read More »Coming Back
If you have ever wondered. “The diplomat’s goal is to build a correct, if boring, model of the world, continuously update it, and prepare decision-makers to hold to that model with the right level of confidence.” https://asteriskmag.com/issues/15/how-diplomats-see-the-world
Don’t do this to your company. “Say you’re in charge of a big software effort. If you make it hard to change code by requiring multiple levels of reviews, a web of Jira tickets, a horde of people needing to… Read More »Reverse Jevons Paradox
Seeing how some people talk about AI, I would expect there would be major security breach every day nowadays. Not one. Several of them. Where are they? Some people would say, that the edge models are so protected, that bad… Read More »Where Are All The Security Incidents?
Being fast should not be a dogma. “People rush through the part where understanding is supposed to happen, then spend ten times longer cleaning up the consequences. The original rushed work gets recorded as “fast.” The cleanup gets recorded as… Read More »The Religion of Speed
Travel times matter. “Levant was closer to Mesopotamia (mostly present-day Iraq) and Anatolia (mostly present-day Turkey) so Egypt could not hold that territory for long after empires emerged there. For example, the Achaemenid Empire (Persia) emerged close to Mesopotamia, conquered… Read More »How Transportation Technologies Shaped Empires
Or milking spiders. Yuck.
Your building would be considered a skyscraper a few decades ago. “Chicago’s Home Insurance Building is considered the first skyscraper in the world, completed in 1885 with elevators to reach its 12 floors. It was not the first building to… Read More »How Transportation Technologies Shape Cities