The Internet Was Weeks Away From Disaster and No One Knew
Most of the world works because of one random guy maintaining some opensource shit.
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Taking Notes
Writing stuff down always helps. It helps clear thoughts, focus, remember later, revisit and edit and much more. I am always surprised how many people are uncapable of taking notes. LLM tools so far still take shitty notes and even… Read More »Taking Notes
To More Regulation Thanks To AI
I think thanks to AI models more and more industries will become regulated and only state sanctioned people will be allowed to do some stuff. The same as it is with architects, structural engineers, lawyers or doctors. In the near… Read More »To More Regulation Thanks To AI
Patience with Technology
It seems to me that people have more patience with AI than with people. If a person would be as annoying with their responses and questions as AI tend to be, you would not speak to the person anymore. Why… Read More »Patience with Technology
How I estimate work as a staff software engineer
Estimates help but are hard. “the majority of software work is not like this. We work on poorly-understood systems and cannot predict exactly what must be done in advance. Most programming in large systems is research: identifying prior art, mapping… Read More »How I estimate work as a staff software engineer
SRE math every engineer should know: a practical guide
The basics, also for managers. “Dashboards provide numbers, but numbers alone do not explain the system. Averages, CPU, and throughput plots are misleading if you do not know the math behind them. At One2N, our SRE practice has seen this… Read More »SRE math every engineer should know: a practical guide
What If You Keep Slowing Down?
Slow mo is cool not only on screen.
This Is Worse Than The Dot Com Bubble
Accountability in tech industry is almost nonexistent. “Three years and $70 billion later, the metaverse is dead, and everybody acts as if it didn’t happen. Whoops! In a sane society, investors, analysts and the media would never trust a single… Read More »This Is Worse Than The Dot Com Bubble
They Built a Child They Won’t Raise
“They’ve spent billions. They’ve hired the brightest minds. They’ve built the most sophisticated systems in human history. And they cannot make AI do what they want. Not because AI is too dumb. Not because AI is too smart. Because what… Read More »They Built a Child They Won’t Raise
The Death Of The Scientist
Automation cannot solve all science questions. “Yet as neuroscientist Anil Seth keenly observed, AlphaFold relies on the same underlying Transformer architecture as LLMs, and no one confuses AlphaFold with being a mind. Are we supposed to interpret that such an… Read More »The Death Of The Scientist