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I’m here to say that if you want to ship high-quality software at pace, you should be investing in abstractions that are designed to enable copy-and-paste. If it's not worth copying and pasting, why did you write it in the first place?
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Reading that headline I have to wonder if it is KSS.
Isn't doing that painful for both parties?
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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More than 50% of sales and service teams don't know how to get the most value out of generative AI, according to a survey of over 2,000 sales and service professionals. PEBKAC
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Why replacing programmers with AI won’t be so easy. Do I have to?
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In the absence of complete requirements, a good developer can often correctly guess what the behavior should be. And if there's uncertainty, get clarification.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: replacing programmers with AI won’t be so easy.
Managers will not have cubicle-serfs to blame their absurd/useless/buggy/past deadline/over-budget results ... following their specs lead to ?
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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If AI can take the pain out of getting complete requirements from users who don't really know what they want much less can explain what they think they want then I will welcome my early retirement.
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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Tech companies behind search engines, social networking services, and operating systems with millions of users will face the Digital Market Act’s new rules in the EU soon. None shall pass! (without ads)
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New research seeks to understand whether the effects of coffee is dependent on caffeine or if it's the experience of drinking coffee that matters. "Our thoughts compressed, which makes us blessed"
Sorry for the obscure-ish lyrical choice, but that headline made the tune get stuck in my head.
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That's why I don't drink coffee, Bacon is not so easy to adulterate  
I do drink coffee, mostly 2 cups in the first hour, but it was too tempting
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And makes for stormy weather
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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And the vascular headache and wobbly sense of my own existence i get after a day or two of no coffee ?
The anti-placebo placebo ?
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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It's a real thing! ...or is it a placebo?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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i know what that is ... i was mentioning caffeine withdrawal to argue against the idea of coffee/caffeine as a placebo. a form of rhetoric that is ironic [^].
cheers, bill
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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Research conducted by NordVPN - one of the best VPN services around - has found that while over a quarter of the UK residents surveyed use a VPN, 40% are using free services that may be dangerous and even run by hackers. If your VPN is free, you're the product?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: If your VPN is free, you're the product?
If they didn't accept it / care about it with other way more obvious things... are they going to care about the VPN?
M.D.V.
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4 tips for programmers to stay ahead of generative AI With Natural Intelligence?
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Ah, yes, "prompt engineering," the new panacea for AI disruptive chaos.
Another tip: experiment with Chats on a secure machine at home, and keep silent at work about what you are trying ... until it will impress those who matter by demonstrating it adds value.
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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Kent Sharkey wrote: With Natural Intelligence?
What's that? /s
M.D.V.
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modified 5-Jul-23 4:18am.
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I assumed it is intelligence that each human have (to counter AI)... but reading your response, is there something new tech NI like AI? 
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Sorry, I forgot the /s and the joke emoji
Solved
M.D.V.
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Sandeep Mewara wrote: is there something new tech NI like AI?
We are the Software Engineers who say NI!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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We bust persistent myths about migrating your workloads to a large cloud provider like AWS. "It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise."
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