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Comment "Everybody wants the glory work" (Score 1) 150

Quoting an old construction work boss... We have a small team of great developers. Core software is highly critical, and highly optimized, and with lots of ip that we don't want to share with a raft of junior developers trying to build a resume. But, there's a lot of stuff on the periphery that is important, but not as latency or reliability sensitive. A lot of those peripheral tasks were hard to get someone to bite on, or weren't deemed worth taking someone off something else, but now are getting picked off by Claude.

I think this is the way in. Everyone is getting up to speed with the tools, but on cases they aren't too worried about. As confidence grows, the ai use will increase and gradually move into the more difficult and critical code. But, for now, tackling the work that no one wanted to bother with is allowing the team to get up to speed and get used to using ai. It's only growing from here. It's not the "glory work" yet, but will likely get there.

Comment TBH, a taxi driver (Score 0) 66

Seems like a reasonable coach. Especially if they're still going after the rise of Uber, I'd take their advice. A good taxi driver has both a deep understanding of their fellow humans and the human condition. Also, probably as close as you get to a juror universal donor. Mistakes were made, but it wasn't a bad idea.

Comment Re:I mean (Score 2) 152

Yeah... I haven't touched a pa-risc workstation since '96, but the systems were pretty sharp at the time. HP-UX was always sort of just okay. Still, I feel for the guy and have a fondness for the systems. For context, I was doing most of my work on a Sun with 2GB of RAM, which at the time was insane. I had a ridiculously over-speced dual pentium desktop for running linux so I could edit code in emacs, but ran my code on the Sun -- which of course sat in my pointy haired boss's office so he could check his email. Yes, this was working for the DoD.

Comment Hey Alexa... (Score 1) 77

Order more dildos! The first one is something they should have thought about. I feel like we had a superbowl ad that did exactly this (not the dildos, but the mass activation). If you're going to wear a powerful computer on your face, other people shouldn't be able to give it commands. The second? You can't have a race condition with a person and a computer. I mean, you can, but *very* rarely. The odds of a real race occurring in an already failing demo seem very low and really stretch the definition of "race."

Comment Don't take my "Wet squelching" or "Sucks teeth" (Score 1) 103

The subtitles have brought so many new things to my attention. Also, the music descriptors are great: "Dark," "Sinister," "Intriguing." Netflix is obviously going to fill any niche it finds available, but I enjoy the current subtitles. Also, I follow the Santa Barbara Zoo on Instagram (@santabarbarazoo) and they always post an Alt-text for all their posts in the caption -- and they often rival the photos. I guess the point is that, done well, these additional feeds can add value even to those who don't strictly need them. But, for those who do, I'm glad that some content producers take them seriously.

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