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Di4na

@Di4na@hachyderm.io

SRE. Elixir Dev. Learner in Resiliency. French.
All Opinions are my own. And i have a lot.

Co-Founder and President Haruspex.dev

dom. He/him.

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ChrisWere, (edited ) to random
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I wonder if the long-term plan for this Windows Recall is just to generate vast amounts of human created data to train AI off of.

Microsoft would have a constant stream of fresh, up-to-the-minute data in insanely vast quantities. Not only that, but it would be exclusive data, giving them an edge in the AI race.

Di4na,
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@ChrisWere or they just believe their own crap.

evacide, to random
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When AirTags first came out and I warned that they were Apple's gift to stalkers, so many Apple fanboys told me that I was overreacting.

https://www.404media.co/email/ce4cec4d-51c3-4101-b2b4-2c9a64aee5e8

Di4na,
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@evacide same. Tired of being a Cassandra...

bagder, to random
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bye bye hosting c-ares web

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/06/06/bye-bye-hosting-c-ares-web/

I passed on the duty after two decades.

Di4na,
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@bagder @tripplehelix asynchronously ofc ;)

Di4na, to random
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I don't even know where to start with this.

But like. Where would you find the money, mate?

Like I have a corporate org already. I am happy to take your money for my work. I should send you my invoice ? Happy to, can I get the information and your signature on the contract?

I thought so.

Maybe come back when you know what you are talking about.


https://thenewstack.io/is-community-backed-open-source-software-worth-the-risk/

forrestbrazeal, to random
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idk why people say funding OSS is difficult

Di4na,
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@forrestbrazeal i joked we know even state level attackers are not valuing FOSS infra properly because we never get the last panel offered to us....

jmaris, to ai
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The Trilemma: or why AI won't be as revolutionary as we expect.

We are in the midst of an AI revolution... or are we? As business leaders around the world scramble to integrate AI into their products and business practices, the cracks are beginning to emerge. We've seen GPT4 fail at basic reasoning, Google's AI search telling people to jump from a bridge, Microsoft's copilot inventing quotes from Vladimir Putin, and recidivism algorithms that continue to send the wrong people to prison.

Di4na,
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@jmaris i mean you are wrong, but in the other way.

You are considering that these techniques could work and be useful/financially viable with better data.

They probably are not, these things fundamentally do not work like that. All that is presented to the public about it is smoke and mirrors to hide the scary reality.

None of these companies can make enough money to fund US pensions.

emilybache, to random
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"TDD is actually easier than writing the tests afterwards, so why is it so hard to learn?"

I was chatting to somebody at MyConf last week and they came up with that statement. I'm kicking myself now for not asking them to elaborate. I have some ideas but I'm interested in what everyone else thinks.

In what ways is TDD easier than test after? And why is it hard to learn?

Di4na,
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@emilybache afaict from the litterature and research (the limited one), neither of these statements are supported by the research.

Di4na,
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@emilybache there is, but none of it is conclusive because research has not been able to find positive impact of TDD, bare some extreme context.

As such, it is pretty hard to evaluate if it is learned well, as there is scant measurable difference in output.

icejam_, to random
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I understand how Copilot would make money for Microsoft, especially if it’s cheap enough to run.

But I can’t figure out what Google is trying to achieve. It’s as if nobody asked “how does adding Gemini to search turn into money?” The company is supposed to be led by shrewd McKinsey people!

Di4na,
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@icejam_ tbf, i bet it was asked in the investor call for the quaterly results. There is nearly always one asking that.

Di4na,
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@icejam_ which is a fancy term for "journalists for financial investors"

mpesce, to random
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this whole AI-in-the-search-results thingy feels like such an unforced error one wonders how it made it through all the processes intended to protect their crown jewels?

perhaps those processes don't exist? or were ignored in panic?

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/google-ai-im-feeling-depressed-cheese-not-sticking-to-pizza-error-rcna153301

Di4na,
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@mpesce they definitely do not exist. I see how people would think they exist, but that would be ignoring reality for a loooong time

grimalkina, to random
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The answer to "how can we make more technology work better and more for everyone" PROBABLY can't hinge on "individual software developers are responsible for knowing internalizing and perfectly executing every single thing in the world and perfectly understanding the needs of billions of people" eh?

Di4na,
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@grimalkina @williampietri there is a reason i always end up with the resilience engineering people.

It is fundamentally based on "well. If we follow the accepted theory, none of engineering and infrastructure should work. And yet it does. Time to go look at what really happen and start by observing."

Patricia, to random
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I have thought probably 20 times over the past few days “Patricia, this is very harsh and if it were you you would be very upset” and yes, I would. But I land at this every time:

The author I’m sure is very sensitive to criticism of their work, but their work is literally made to affect other people. To change their entire day to day. Teams broken up, folks losing their jobs, all sorts of pretty drastic changes. To coddle their feelings seems disproportionate to the effect they are actually trying to produce in the world.

If they are successful they will change the day to day of tens of thousands of people. So a certain level of honest analysis is not only fair, but to be honest, sorely lacking.

Di4na,
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@Patricia things get even funnier when you try to find supporting evidence.

The litterature is limited but exist and uh...

Well.

Patricia, to random
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I saw @HalvarFlake
original keynote and this looks like an amazing update.
https://youtu.be/xA-ns0zi0k0?si=4COaRkpVT6IvTWJT

Di4na,
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@Patricia @HalvarFlake feasible maybe not but like...
There was a lot of gpu made and production line for them. They needed something to do

chrisamaphone, to random
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are... reversible compilers a thing?

Di4na,
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@chrisamaphone hmmm that is an interesting questions. I can think of a few things around this, but explicitly is hard. I suppose you could consider some of the egraph work to be like that? Up to a point at least? Or the whole work to make internal representation that can be resugared into nice error message?

Fully reversible would be hard though, you would have to keep the semantic and syntactic information end to end.

Di4na,
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@regehr @chrisamaphone yeah. Main thing that come to mind is
https://blog.brownplt.org/2016/02/06/resugaring.html and follow up work

Di4na,
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@robs @regehr @chrisamaphone we have a lot of that. it is always a first step but hardly enough.

Di4na, to foss
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Btw, if you liked my "I Am Not A Supplier" blogpost, I am searching for a job.

Happy to pick a job that is mostly going to tell people working on this about the reality of the maintainer life. Just saying.

https://www.softwaremaxims.com/blog/not-a-supplier

https://www.softwaremaxims.com/resume

#foss #opensource

Patricia, to random
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Alright folks, these tech process authors are confidently saying how we should organize to make stuff. But what do you think? What is the best tech org and why?

Di4na,
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@Patricia my answer is "the one that provide you the fastest feedback in the constraints your environment gives you".

Sadly the problem is deeper. The whole SDLC idea has no basis in reality. The whole model need to burn. I got a "models we organise by" talk i need to sit down to offer to srecon on that.

Di4na,
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@Patricia I mean I do not disagree and yet. We still have traces of it everywhere in the field.

Look at the "infamous" devops infinity symbol.

Or the whole "bugs cost less to fix the earlier they are found. Design fix cost less than prod". This one is a really persistent leprechaun.

Or the whole TDD thing. Or... I could keep going

Di4na,
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@Patricia I mean yeah. Totally.

But also, we have pretty good science support to show that these models are really far from reality.

Di4na,
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@Patricia Totally, but that also mean that we may want to accept when some model that were useful are not anymore :D

grimalkina, to random
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Pointed to this paper from a column on it: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4464593

Folks in dev psych and elsewhere often talk about girls being underconfident. But how rarely we frame in terms of boys' overconfidence.

"Across a range of countries, contexts, and domains, men have been found to exhibit higher degrees of confidence in their ability than women (Kay and Shipman, 2014). This phenomenon has been particularly salient in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)."

Di4na,
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@grimalkina fair fair! But that is also already a lot of work to get to that point, which presupposes a high motivation or time and all to do it.

I mean it is great and I want more of it! Also mindful of the realities of research and pressures.

Di4na,
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@grimalkina that and also... How to say that.

Hypothesis: reviews work through heuristics built by knowing what kind of mistakes a human do.

LLM evaluation could be biased by abusing these heuristic and making mistakes in blind spot. Or using "code style" that we heuristically associate to skill.

After all, did they train for "objective" (yes i know, the term is fraught with problems) measures of success or for humans reviews results?

einarwh, to random
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Developers eagerly and earnestly replacing legacy systems with new systems built with technologies with dramatically shorter half-lives than the ones they are replacing.

Di4na,
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@TheTraveller @einarwh @deborahh more that we have experience about maintaining things past their time and we refuse that pain.

Shorter half life means less pain for us.

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