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Most of the time you will save yourself a lot of grief by having a transaction decorator for each endpoint, as each HTTP call should be atomic. And then have another read-only decorator for RO transaction.
We can actually review code and prompt better. Most of these people's skills involve connections made in business schools and the ability to shoot shit during three-martini lunches.
Like others have said - many people at the top are so successful because they ended up at the right place and right time, and their approach just fit exactly the problem at hand. They did not see the future, they just had a hunch - and that can go either way.
Put them anywhere else and it will be a disaster.
A good case study of this is Ron Johnson, who did miracles at Apple and then ran J.C. Penny into the ground.
If you look at the causes, it was blatantly obvious what he was doing wrong (doing away with sale prices). It's a kind of fundamental thing that one could understand by just asking some questions. Maybe it's not genius, maybe people "just do things" and they just happen to work once.
Most success stories are accidental, and one's ability to succeed really depends on how many times they are allowed to fail first.
Most of us here - we have no such luxury. We fail, we become homeless.
There are exceptions, of course, and there are truly talented managers out there. If I look around, however, all I see is clown cars accidentally driving into gold mines.
I stopped caring about wellness trackers ever since the FIRST FitBit. Once you get an idea of what 10K steps feel like, it really becomes redundant at that point.
This personal optimization fad is exhausting. We already get enough "data-driven" at work - I don't need that in off-hours.
Listen to your body and stop converting every minute of your life into numbers. Maybe lift up your head and listen to the world for a second once in a while, instead of planting your face in another screen.
When I write these days, I am more aggressive in using "I", so it's clear it's my own voice. Generally, an LLM is less prone to self-reference like that unless it's prompted to, I guess.
The one Claudism I will never ever use is "synthesize". I don't even know where that came from - no one talks or writes like that - "I can synthesize that for you".
The problem is bigger. Outside of coding, there is no real way to reinforce a model with pass/fail cycles until it stops hallucinating. This is why customer service uses will always have a problem. This compounds as you chain agents together.
It's like the speed of light - to get to that point, you need exponentially more energy, and you will never ever get there.
The news here is that people are still using instagram.
That only happens in governments that treat regulations as a racket, not something to be used for public good.
Yes, but it does get easier with experience and some battle scars. Telling a startup to stick to the problem and not go wild with microservices and event sourcing is not exactly a hot take.
Related, but the best quality to have in a startup is knowing when and what corners to cut instead of going on these side quests.
I wipe my context relentlessly. I never have long-running conversations. In and out like Seal Team Six.
Right, this is why I would slam the breaks on investing into your workflow all of your time and effort, because 2 months from now it may be out the window. Frontier models are also constantly being tweaked, so what worked yesterday may be off today.
ChatGPT was obedient with the grill-me technique, just wrote a plan. Yesterday it started jumping to implementation. Why?
That may be true, but the FDA is no longer run by fiduciaries of the United States.
That CGI looks quite OK, and even surpasses much of "modern" CGI. Have you ever seen "Flash"?
This is considering the effects were done in 1990.
Edit: a lot of what people think is CGI in T2 is actually NOT.
https://www.facebook.com/StanWinstonSchool/videos/bullet-hit...
Subjective, of course, but Apple is the new HBO. They don't have the massive amount of content, but they go for quality.
That's exactly right. The US Government is ruthlessly efficient - yeah, people don't want to hear that. Sure, there are Pentagon-related boondoggles, but that's different.
Try working in a government office - you will be lucky to get a water cooler - BYOW.
"Small government" means "fuck you, I got mine, now let's gut the IRS so I can do some white collar crime".
Spoiler alert - it's 5X for this.
Or, I might say, why review the PR. Get Claude to do it? Why do I need to spend my time and attention and this person does not?
Ah, yes - the person who comes in at 7AM and gets shit done by 11 is a slacker, and the one in the office just doing nothing after 6PM is the hard worker. Same thing.
You can't fix this. Out of sight, out of mind. It is hard-wired into us. It's all about the optics, and will always be.
She was in Jewish underground resistance after she escaped the ghetto, and that movement was responsible for saving a lot of lives. Sure, not a shockingly unique story in WWII, but she did better than these upward fail sons.
Which is ironic because Rae Kushner - his grandmother - is a legend. She has gone through some things.
Now her grandson is wrecking Europe.
https://www.npr.org/2018/05/04/560224531/trump-stories-kushn...
"MongoDB is the hottest thing! No default creds, who cares about that! ONWARD TO PRODUCTION, SOLDIERS!"
I can see how my advice could be read the wrong way in this post-shame world.
No, I do NOT mean "be an asshole if you feel like it".
I mean it more in the latter sense - take a vacation, go to Pompey. Say hello to the girl you like and see what happens. It's something you can do now, so later you don't replay it endlessly, wondering what would have been.
Also, no billionaire right in the head will be bemoaning not having more billions while on their deathbed.
As I always say - do what you will regret NOT doing once you are old.
They made a movie about people like you in the 90s, called "Clueless":
The fact that you think it's "sad" is a dead giveaway in terms of what you value in life and what you consider a virtue.
If I can - I avoid NPM completely and just go with no-build projects.
Why would you want to signal that? It relates in no way as to what kind of person you are. In fact, the richer you are, the more questions I have about how you got it and who got shafted along the way.
I have serious doubts that Meta is aiming to improve these products. Every time I open Instagram - ironically of course - it just seems like more and more AI slop.