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I’m a Principal Cloud Engineer and I practice minimum viable software. Less to grok, less to maintain, less debugging effort during an incident. In the context
by reilly3000 3y ago
I’m a Principal Cloud Engineer and I practice minimum viable software. Less to grok, less to maintain, less debugging effort during an incident. In the context of a larger system it may make sense to implement a logger for wrapping messages with consistent contextual values because DRY.
I’ll give ChatGPT a pass because the prompt was so contrived. I would be curious how it would respond if prompted with a more open-ended problem.
- 93po 3y agoout of curiosity, why do you use the word "grok" instead of "understand" here? I have what I recognize is probably an irrational annoyance with the word grok and i want to better understand what people mean by it to potentially dislike it less
- reilly3000 3y agoI suppose I meant it as to say thoroughly understand a piece of code, why it exists, the context it operates in, and the implications of modifying it. I’ve learned the hard way how making a decision about the need for code or the way it’s implemented can lead to unintended consequences, some of which may be difficult to detect. So I’m using grok to describe a completeness of understanding, which I believe aligns with its dictionary definition.
- whamlastxmas 3y agoI believe the definition is more to intuitively understand something. Like if you had never seen a door before, you could grok that the handle on the door was used to pull it open. Someone doesn’t have to explain it to you since it’s the only pulling option available