Matt Owens

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Software engineer, musician, and motorsports enthusiast. Into #cycling #trombone #reading #writing and #gardening
Webhttps://brokenintuition.com
Fatherhood bloghttps://www.raisingbetter.com/
PronounsHe/Him
Matt Owens1d ago

Currently converting all of my work notes over to obsidian. I don’t know if I want to go full Zettelkasten, but at least using a proper note taking tool and being intentional about linking things together will be better than my previous system of a folder with md files randomly tossed in it.

#obsidian #notetaking

Show threadMatt Owens4d ago

@Lana
Re: Wash being in the animated series

I was curious about that too. I saw in a different article the new series is set in the original timeline between the original series and Serenity, so no issue including Wash

@Guillotine_Jones

Matt OwensMar 13
Brooke Vibber Mar 13

Never deploy on a Friday.

A Friday the 13th? Doubly so.

Matt OwensMar 12
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦Mar 12

RE: https://mas.to/@trendsbot/116211553284922724

When USSR was crumbling, factories were also paying workers in products they manufactured.

This is AI bubble companies trying to print own money. Printing your own money only works if you find a way to make it necessary. That's what taxes do, for example (recommended reading: David Graeber's "Debt").

Here:

👉 "printing money" part is paying employees in tokens

👉 "taxes" part is requiring employees to use AI in their day to day work (thus making tokens necessary)

 

#AI

Show threadMatt OwensMar 11
@box464 I’ve noticed this too. I’m sure some of it is an intentional choice in the ranking algorithm, but it seems like every single post LinkedIn shows me is about how great AI is and how it’s letting people write and close dozens of PRs a day. Yikes, and I honestly don’t buy it
Matt OwensMar 11
Show threadRachelMar 11
@praxiscode @homelab partner/family acceptance factor and guest acceptance factor are the better terms vs that other WAF as well
Matt OwensMar 7
𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"Mar 7
A.I. musicians are COOKED. I just recorded an ENTIRE SONG using nothing but my instruments and a few microphones. This would have cost upwards of hundreds of dollars in expensive A.I. subscription fees but for me it was completely FREE. Don't get left behind. This is the future!
Matt OwensMar 7
all-inclusive gender resortMar 6

you know what feels good? taking my time writing code by hand, thinking about a plan and exceptions, writing tests and fixing bugs, getting reviews from another person who also cares about finding and fixing problems, and doing my best.

"oh but it turns out not all software needs to be engineered to such high quality standards!" i hear you say, to which i have 2 responses:

Show threadMatt OwensMar 7
@pseudonym I’m fully prepared to be way too excited about this and then be entirely let down if it doesn’t happen or is awful
Matt OwensMar 6

Whenever I go on LinkedIn, basically every post is about people writing thousands of lines of code and closing dozens of tickets a day with AI coding tools. As someone who doesn't use the things that seems like typical LinkedIn exaggeration.

Slightly tongue-in-cheek, but I work on a small team in a hospital so I have no visibility into what's going on in places with bigger engineering orgs. So, what is development looking like where you are? Boosts welcome.

#SoftwareEngineering

All AI, all the time
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