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Scrum is a cancer 3 years ago

I've personally never been in a project where I've felt that the team was doing well thanks to scrum but in spite of it.

Most people that retire don't turn into murderers or anarchists. I find very interesting how people tend to picture the worst possible scenarios, maybe a lot of Movies or TV influence?

I think that's a very limited view.

A lot of people that retire from their careers pursue other interests that fulfill their needs, maybe it will be the era of amateur artists everywhere. Others prefer to manually do tasks that can be automated.

Others could engage in cooperation with robots because humans will always have creative desires.

I wonder if these improvements in memory alteration will make it possible to create micro models using an approach based on pruning non relevant connections but preserving the reasoning abilities of large models like GPT4.

I think it doesn't matter that much anymore.

Express was really cool and different from what was out there at the time (at least in terms of simplicity and JS support).

But nowadays there's not a lot of difference between them. Sure, some are more ergonomic than others in certain areas but the patterns are almost the same in all of them.

There's been a lot of reporting on how testosterone and sperm count levels are decreasing without a clear explanation on why and lots of hypothesis so finding clear links between sedentary jobs and fertility is interesting.

AI Hyperopia 4 years ago

Me too, It has reduced the amount of work and by extension allowed me to have more productive work sessions.

AI Hyperopia 4 years ago

Copilot has been really useful to me, and if you know what you are doing it's a massive time and mental energy saver.

You can let it draft an initial approach to a small task and then you refine it, I've found this works well, and in practical terms, I end up less tired after working in collaboration with Copilot.

I don't expect it to give me the perfect answer, and it doesn't remove the need for tests (which it can also help creating). But as an assistant? It rocks.

I've tried to contact OpenAI and they never answer. I was excited about them in the beginning but not anymore. Looks like they are really disconnected from the community and not interested in engaging.

I've learnt to enjoy them and trying to connect with people. Especially after the pandemic, I think everyone is currently struggling or did struggle with life stuff so in some ways we can all relate more easily to each other.

Some companies culture just suck and you can tell it really quickly, trying to pursue those positions is a waste of valuable energy.

I think the worst interviewers are developers that are not senior yet and will try to favor cleverness over what's actually valuable. They tend to ask the questions you can easily google.

I've heard of a few prolific open source developers living in their cars/boats. It was rough but that's their choice, they didn't have stable internet connection so optimized for offline work. In lots of aspects it was similar to a homeless person but they made it work, they've also received some limited sponsorship from companies that used their code.