Toots from 2023-10-27
I assume all code changes have the same unquantifiable level of uncertainty. Assessing risk impli…
I assume all code changes have the same unquantifiable level of uncertainty. Assessing risk implies a false certainty. It’s reasonable to ask “what evidence do you have this change is safe” rather than “how risky is this PR”?
“We don’t have hundreds of measurements from forecasts of well-defined events. We have a slide of a handful of independent, complex risks, none of which have ever happened before. So we can’t know whether our probabilities were correct”
https://longform.asmartbear.com/unmeasurable-metrics/
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“I also pay a lot of attention to conference talks, meetup presentations, guest lectures in col…
“I also pay a lot of attention to conference talks, meetup presentations, guest lectures in college courses, etc.: I know I’m biased, but I think they’re a good sign that people can communicate.”
https://third-bit.com/2023/09/26/hiring-an-engineering-manager/
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“What we’re witnessing right now in real-time with karpenter is some of the very real impacts…
“What we’re witnessing right now in real-time with karpenter is some of the very real impacts of Conway’s Law on Kubernetes, and it’s fascinating to watch the organization navigate this.”
https://blog.appliedcomputing.io/p/conways-law-and-kubernetes
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“Technological “progress” does not occur along a single, fixed path. Its course is heavily …
“Technological “progress” does not occur along a single, fixed path. Its course is heavily influenced by people, existing institutions, and incentives.”
https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/why-cant-our-tech-billionaires-learn
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“One of the key decisions we continuously take in our software engineering work is choosing the…
“One of the key decisions we continuously take in our software engineering work is choosing the right abstraction levels to strike a good balance between implementation effort and the level of customizability and control we need for our use case.”
https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai.html