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by dasil003 10mo ago
I think your definition of character is useful, and I tend to agree with Drucker that it's the most important thing, because otherwise a manager will subject to whatever political winds are blowing higher up without any grounding or po
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by dasil003 10mo ago
Everything has tradeoffs and unforeseen effects and social structure is a slow moving ship. Food security is pretty obviously compelling, and creates a stability that allows a society to scale and grow more wealthy and powerful. The loss
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by dasil003 10mo ago
That’s funny because I have seen this advice most needed in large projects, where things drag out because people keep having new ideas that they think will make it better. The insidious part is that certainly some ideas are good, the issue
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by dasil003 11mo ago
I understand the distinction, but at some point it's not super helpful, and I would argue even counter productive. If you have a system that is big enough and has had enough change over time that it's structure is no longer well s
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by dasil003 11mo ago
The production side is the problem. Netflix churns out shovelware crap designed to be on in the background. Every once in a while they get lucky or stick their neck out to acquire something good, but the batting average is very low. HBO
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by dasil003 11mo ago
Yeah sorry if my assessment was a bit callous and overly critical, and I hope you don't take it personally. I meant what I said up front that it was very well articulated and made a lot of sense. The reason I wrote what I wrote is bec
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by dasil003 11mo ago
Huh? The next sentence is: "The difference lies in what to do once one has rendered oneself redundant."
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by dasil003 11mo ago
That entire paragraph is a string of poorly-articultated, cringeworthy sentences. In fact the whole article seems to be a series of strawmen set up on the basis of oddly specific and naive interpretations of management concepts like "
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by dasil003 11mo ago
This is a well articulated article and the OA makes some good observations about the differences in evaluation between a product engineering org and an infra engineering org. It's also clear he's got real technical chops to finis
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by dasil003 11mo ago
Sure. My point was AI was already 25% of the way there even with their verbose messy style. I think with your suggestions (style guidance, human in the loop, etc) we get at most 30% of the way there.
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by dasil003 11mo ago
Sorry but from where I sit, this is only marginally closes gap from AI to truly senior engineers. Basically human junior engineers start by writing code in a very procedural and literal style with duplicate logic all over the place because
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by dasil003 11mo ago
Of course Google is mature enough that this particular failure mode probably won’t happen, but there may be other more concerning failure modes for individuals who are reliant on a broad swath of Google services. Diversity of tech companies
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by dasil003 11mo ago
That's such a reductive statement. Yes there are always some unproductive meetings one has to attend. On the other hand, you'd be surprised how many leaders and middle-managers viscerally understand the cost of low-value meeting
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by dasil003 11mo ago
Ah fair point. Yeah I don't consider science fiction any more informative or legitimate than your opinion.
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by dasil003 11mo ago
Who said that?
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by dasil003 11mo ago
Why? This is arbitrary speculation on your part. We can't know such a mind through our imagination any more than an amoeba can know ours.
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by dasil003 11mo ago
I value objectivity and truth as much as the next nerd, but would never set not-being-wrong as my highest value. Such a path can only lead to misery and alienation.
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by dasil003 11mo ago
Automating away software engineering entirely is nothing new. It goes all the way back to BASIC and COBOL, and later visual programming tools, Microsoft Access, etc. There have been innumerable attempts to do somehow get by without need t
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by dasil003 11mo ago
Why is it "precisely the wrong approach"? And why does it have to be just one? I agree looking at the quality of life of the poorest is a valuable barometer for the quality and success of a society to serve all its people. Simil
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by dasil003 11mo ago
Not just the poor, how about the bottom 99%? This is what's so frustrating to me about the culture wars and identity politics. Regardless of ones views on the hot button cultural issue du jour, at best they are a distraction, and at
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by dasil003 11mo ago
Context is everything. Ultimately you have to use your own judgement about what makes sense because no one can see all ends. Generalized advice from someone without skin in the game is at best a weak datapoint for any significant life deci
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by dasil003 1y ago
I agree on the cause of waste, but I'm skeptical AI will move the needle on a solution. The longer I work in big companies the more I realize that things happen because someone has the strength of will combined with the right levers a
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by dasil003 1y ago
I wonder how much this is a factor of the widespread mental health malaise that is often attributed to tech these days? Certainly plenty of factors to go around, but consider the connotation of "scrolling" and how common it is a
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by dasil003 1y ago
Huh? Blocking senders as you surf the web based on what you want to see is a completely different problem from blocking requests to your server based on what the intent of the requester is. I can think of no way these problems are similar
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by dasil003 1y ago
Poe's law notwithstanding, this is brilliant satire. This line alone cracked me up: > Satya Nadella is a brilliant man - visionary, strategic, empathetic, yadda yadda
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by dasil003 1y ago
It’s odd to me that someone who reached E9 at Meta seems so unaware of the capriciousness and political aspect of promotions at high levels. These are coveted and extremely rare roles that many talented and ambitious people are earnestly w
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by dasil003 1y ago
> We've all experienced that stare when talking to someone who does not have sufficient depth of understanding in a topic. I think you're really putting your finger on something here. LLMs have blown us away because they can
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by dasil003 1y ago
In the corporate world ecosystem and fungibility of programmers are the top priority. The only way Elixir will get traction there is by Elixir companies literally growing to Fortune 500 size and showing the language/ecosystem is viabl
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by dasil003 1y ago
He didn't say inertia, he said mature. It take a while for a language/platform to develop a solid ecosystem and stabilize. That absolutely has value, and is something you can't get out of a new system no matter what novel p
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by dasil003 1y ago
Sure, but there's no single person that believes engineers must be all those things, you're conflating many opinions to form an impossible litmus test. In reality as the GP pointed out: great engineers don't all fit the same

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