because of some recent discussion somewhere: I don't think there's such a thing as a good software engineer who sucks at communication

I don't care whether it's cat meows, pigeon carrier, or whatever else, and I'm fully aware that there's so many people for whom communicating is really hard and very draining, but somehow you need to get the ideas in your head into other people's heads

because there's nothing left in IT that you can just solo

Immer wieder überbauen Netzbetreiber bereits bestehende Glasfasernetze. Hunderte Fälle von doppeltem Ausbau wurden inzwischen an eine Monitoringstelle gemeldet. Doch das lange bekannte Problem wartet weiterhin auf eine Lösung.

https://netzpolitik.org/2023/doppelter-netzausbau-schaffe-schaffe-ueberbaue/

Dolly 2.0 is a really big deal: https://www.databricks.com/blog/2023/04/12/dolly-first-open-commercially-viable-instruction-tuned-llm

"The first open source, instruction-following LLM, fine-tuned on a human-generated instruction dataset licensed for research and commercial use"

My notes so far on trying to run it: https://til.simonwillison.net/llms/dolly-2