Software developer, fell runner, caver.
Interested in the outdoors, environment, software maintenance, and copious photos of stiles and industrial heritage.
| Website | https://tecnocode.co.uk |
| Pronouns | he/him |
This week I travelled to a walking event by train instead of driving. The event was handily set up so the start time was a bit after when the first train arrived, thankfully!
Spring flowers newly spotted this week: Cow Parsley just starting, Common Ramping-fumitory (I think: fumitories are pretty difficult to ID), and on the heath today, Tormentil. Just past the Tormentil the first adder of the year was winding its way off the path into the safety of the heather. (Too quickly for a photo though.)
Spring Gentian flowers, rare in the UK but locally abundant on this slope in Harwood, Upper Teesdale. They are also to be seen on the better known Widdybank Fell near Cow Green reservoir, where they grow near a public footpath.
Part of the Teesdale Assemblage, a group of rare species for which Upper Teesdale is famous. #Flora #Bloomscrolling
@StarkRG @jonm I remember learning the following rules back in 2005 or even earlier:
- Praise specifically and criticise generally
- Double all time estimates made by your developers and take them to the next unit (e.g. 2 days become 4 weeks) before passing them on
- Agree on a clear vocabulary, write it down and stick to it
The last point especially helps with quickly seeing which employees either lack the necessary precision/focus or tend to make things overly complicated
My recent favorite read. Despite what people around me are shifting to my contributions will remain 100% LLM-free.
> […] I didn’t talk of quality per se. I don’t think there’s a point in doing that. I believe that LLMs sometimes spit quality slop, and sometimes they don’t. […] That’s beside the point.
The point is, however you look at it, LLMs are unethical.
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