zopeff.me
Engineering Manager, Application Designer, Cyclist.
#agile, #tdd, #gravel
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Such a nice part of town.
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I think I say that at least once while on one of your rides.
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What flavor is it?
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Being able to read and understand it, but most importantly, being _currious_ about it, is what will matter. It might not be obvious at first, but it will come back around.
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I dont know if this helps, but even with AI, skills like yours will always be in demand. Though, it might not be exactly how you would imagine it today. AI (vibe coding *shudder*), etc will allow more people to create software, but they wont have the skills to support, test, or maintain it.
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Mocha - 7 weeks
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AI is taking the AI's JOB! It needs that job to afford to live in the cloud!
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felt it here in North andover
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felt it up north in north andover too!
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One of my favorite programs when I was a kid was a British science show called Connections hosted by James Burke: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xetp...
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It's getting harder and harder to find those sorts of safe spaces these days...
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That being said, as AI powered deepfakes get better and see more widespread use, I think we are in for a bumpy ride. Absolutely any conspiracy theory will have compelling video evidence attached that most people will not hesitate sharing, especially if it supports some fear they already suspect.
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Who remembers the "tracert hacker"😉 ? Feels like 'Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic' is at the core of a lot of conspiracy theories. Granted the world of open source licenses is a pretty esoteric topic, but it seems most people have misplaced their Occam's razor.
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The tricky part is getting people to articulate problems from the *user's perspective* in the story and simply what to implement. In a recent "story mapping" exercise at work, when I asked what problem the user was trying to solve, the only response available was "to use our thing".
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delivering the wrong things more quickly ... Facing this personally right now at work. Productivity being used as a [bad] proxy for value delivery.
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FWIW the Discworld shows are also available on Amazon prime.
Apple TV is free this weekend, so Severance is a good choice too...
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I forget where I read this, but recently someone articulated the dread of how our modern world is designed to constantly try and coerce us into accepting things that are not in our interest. Vigilance is exhausting and the attacks are coming from every possible direction. #enshitification.
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Tomato/Tamato? One person's ad supported model is someone else's value added differentiation...
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Motorola's customers are the app developers on those lists. They have paid for that placement. Paid even more to be the "recommended" apps. The fact the _user_ needs to wade through all that sorta intended because most users won't. Apps end up installed which is what the customer (app dev) paid for.
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Au contraire! I think the customer is the only one in those pictures...
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I love your inclusion of monitoring in the testing topic. Personally, I try to separate the things that could change at any moment (ex: db conn. or external APIs ) from the things that are directly related to my code. Monitor what you don't control, but be defensive and test what you do control.
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While not explicitly about testing, I loved your point about refinement. I think it's incumbent on us developers to help others on our team to see the whole picture. A simple, well meaning, request can lead to all sorts of "complications" if we just take it on face value.
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In my experience, all of the rocks I've hit with my lawnmower have fared a lot better....
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Friday _night_? Unless it's before 8:30, I'll see it Saturday morning...
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Sorta my point... doesnt sound like a good test regardless of what you call it. 🙃
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For me, I dont care what label it is given, it's just a distraction when that is the focus. Whatever test they write, if it gives them confidence when making changes it's good. The test you describe sounds like it might simply be a bad test/approach. That's a more worthwhile thing to discuss IMHO.
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Canceled my subscription this morning. Was the last straw for me. Unfortunately I don't live in an area with good reception for OTA, and all the other services are basically the same price. No local TV for me anymore.
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I try to avoid the whole argument over classification all together as I think it's distracting. Call them what ever you want. Do all the tests run fast? Do your tests give you high confidence? Do your tests let you refactor without fear? Most teams can't even answer those questions...
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sounds like someone should make a starter pack...
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wait... I thought we were being inefficient because we were too busy using mouse-moving software, blocking out private calendar time, or blaming build system issues. Now we are <checks article> reading and understanding the code base or testing too much?
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Speaking from experience, a mountain bike is never out of place on one of these rides... 😜
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I will always laugh at this passive-aggressive autocorrect sketch from @ellecordova.bsky.social
youtube.com/shorts/NtOgn...
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I'm still hung up on the cost. As a developer, I should be paying for some AI assistant out of my own pocket and that the company I work for gets to take advantage of it? Will there start to be a world where only those who can afford the AI assistant are the ones who can be viable developers?