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It’s interesting to see the ongoing row over ChatGPT. The discussion in copy is trending towards extremes. It’s either magic or evil. Really, it’s neither. Right now, it’s fancy autocomplete.
What it kicks out is the most generic boilerplate mush, full of errors. Which means it’s useless, right? Well, no. Throw a short outline at it and ChatGPT can sometimes output a workable draft a skilled editor can quickly bash into shape.
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CW: Reading this will hurt. But it's important to spread awareness of the amount of cruelty that Republicans are bringing into the world. Torture seems to be the best word to describe what they made this woman and her family go through.
h/t @karger
"I left my London flat and went to the pub to ask some people, but the minute I walked in, they all started speaking English"
Another guideline I have been testing the boundaries of is DRY. This is not a universal or absolute principle, as some developers think, nor is it simply about duplicated code.
Consider it as an enquiry into the role and necessity or superfluity of repeated information, with a strong skew towards reduction of duplication — whether that is duplication of intent, information, etc.
An experiment using #chatgpt to create domain models for agreements.
It does an outstanding job. I gave our app a Service Level Agreement, and it gave me back a valid schema that I can now use elsewhere. This means that I can automatically create templates and web forms for an agreement.
Use the prompt: "Create a domain model for the following contract text:"
Try yourself at https://lnkd.in/ei-sCemu
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A FOSS tale in 3 acts
Act 1:
Maintainer of popular project from large company (name rhymes with froogle) opens a bug report on one of my smaller libraries, mentioning their project is considering using my lib.
Yay, great news! 🎉Love my code being used on larger tools!
(🧵 thread)
“Women make up only 9.8% of the people who contribute to open-source software projects. . . . our research found that women’s negative experiences range from minor to severe harassment, sexism, discrimination and misogyny to explicit death threats. Their expertise is challenged, their contributions are not well-received and their roles are diminished.” - Vandana Singh
https://theconversation.com/the-retention-problem-women-are-going-into-tech-but-are-also-being-driven-out-200625
#OpenSource #WomenInTech
"How can I improve my team's software engineering skills, as a Staff engineer?"
There's stuff like pairing, mentoring, advising you can all do.
But there's something much more impactful: become a pace setter. With your experience, there's little excuse not to do it.
The tradeoff, of course, is that becoming a pace setter means that you will have less time outside of building software. However, this can be a worthwhile tradeoff, when done for a month or two.
Craig Grannell
Lea Verou, PhD
Helen Czerski
Kevlin Henney
Sharon Machlis
Gergely Orosz