Karsten Konrad

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Some AI old timer, in again just for fun. I also do a bit of electronic music and cooking.
They're not just saying the quiet part out loud. They're screaming it into a megaphone.
Watching a yoga class online on my sofa with a glass of wine is prob the most relaxing thing I have done for a while. #thatnovemberholiday
Laurence Wolsey on mathematicians, probabilists, engineers, bosses, and struggling professors #orms
“Things will be broken. Things will be broken more often. Things will be broken for longer periods of time. Things will be broken in more severe ways,”. A #Twitter engineer on how the next few weeks will play out.
#TwitterMigration #ScienceMastodon
https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/08/1062886/heres-how-a-twitter-engineer-says-it-will-break-in-the-coming-weeks/
Here’s how a Twitter engineer says it will break in the coming weeks

One insider says the company’s current staffing isn’t able to sustain the platform.

MIT Technology Review

I just wrote a one liner that replaces a one page function.

I guess I will never be hired in a company owned by Musk.

Using lines of code to measure a developer contribution is pure nonsense.

I would value someone who actually decreases the number of loc via code factorization and redesign much higher than someone who duplicates code all over the place with copy and paste.