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One of thing I have noticed of good software engineers is while they are trying to solve problems, they also communicate with clarity to upper management chain. The clarity they bring to the table was always appreciated and also puts them in the career growth path easily.

Every good engineer is an excellent communicator. Everyone who is not an excellent communicator is not a good engineer. Everyone hates that this is true but it remains true. A lot of people are very good programmers who have mistaken that for being good engineers, however.

And this is the determining factor to whether a current dev will be replaced by AI or will evolve alongside with it, being the bridge between humans and AI.

Which is not really different to what we're already doing, translating human requirements to machine code. Just that communication skills will become an even bigger part of the job.


people who do not understand orthogonality also take poor measurements.

I'm not sure what you're implying.



Not knowing what's your workflow, Wouldnt this be possible in future for cowork, to read the financial documents and derive insights and build reports and you build your workflow ?

I mean, maybe? I'm not sure there are really "insights" I'm missing here that I need a probabilistic take about

Posts like the one above you just show me how clueless people are who deal with production of software everyday but have little to no idea about the jobs of others outside of their realm.

Comical stuff.


Would take back my lame comment above. though my intent was to probe, I could have done better. I agree it was comical on how I came across.

Would you mind explaining more of your reasoning? I don't think I fully understand why you're saying what you're saying.

Not really. If the job was 100% deterministic we wouldn't need the human, would we?

I find it interesting that we already have patterns established, while agentic approach is still being adopted in various industries in varying maturity.


Agents have been around for decades. Some of these patterns pre-exist the current LLM boom.

1996: https://web.archive.org/web/19961221024144/http://www.acm.or... > Computer-based agents have gotten attention from computer scientists and human interface designers in recent years


Yep—many of these predate LLMs.


At some point, we need to begin. My initial thought was that this is a growing and evolving resource, primarily for my own use. We are slowly but steadily learning what makes sense annd patterns emerge. Also, if others find it interesting and contribute, that would be even better.


moment I read personal cloud, how is fail over supported... probably dumb question I assume.


I couldn't help laughing


The definition of “native Brit” is vague — by ancestry? birthplace? passport? Seems like a rhetorical choice.


He links to some census statistics from Wikipedia about the demographic makeup of London over time, and then says:

> In 2000, more than sixty percent of the city were native Brits. By 2024, that had dropped to about a third

Those figures line up with the "White British" row of the table: 59.79% in 2001, 36.8% in 2021.

So it seems pretty clear his definition of "native Brit" means "White British person".


Good point. British people don't really exist. What are even English or Scottish people? French people? European people? Where does it start, where does it end? We don't know.

We don't know what a white person is. No idea, no clue. Where could we even start?

Funnily enough, though, those considerations never seem to apply to Palestinians, native Americans, indigenous Australians, etc. There is only a certain group that is somehow impossible to define precisely, yet is the primary target of those considerations.


I see you created the account to just post this so you're highly likely to not be worth the response but "native brit" is vague not because British people don't exist - there is a legal definition for that - but because Britain has been invaded and seen migration for millenia. Are Normans less native than Anglo-Saxons? Are the Celts the most native? Why do the Vikings and Franks get to assimilate into nativity but not the non-white? The answer to that is very clear - however people tend to hide it behind terms like "native".


>but "native brit" is vague not because British people don't exist - there is a legal definition for that - but because Britain has been invaded and seen migration for millenia.

but "native african" is vague not because African people don't exist - there is a legal definition for that - but because Africa has been invaded and seen migration for millenia.

>but because Britain has been invaded and seen migration for millenia.

So has practically every other nation including those located in Palestine, Australia, and the Americas.

>Are Normans less native than Anglo-Saxons? Are the Celts the most native? Why do the Vikings and Franks get to assimilate into nativity but not the non-white? The answer to that is very clear - however people tend to hide it behind terms like "native".

Are Afrikaners less native than Bantus? Are Khoisans the most native? Why do Khoekhoen and San get to assimilate into nativity but not the White? The answer to that is very clear - however people tend to hide it behind terms like "native".


Given the British empire, it can’t be British people because they spanned the world. All of the empire -> commonwealth had mobility. It’s skin tone, not culture. Unless this is the celts wanting to get the British isles back.


I mean you can say that about literally every other peoples on the planet, so it's not very convincing.


I missed title to be "how relevant is java in world of AI"


seems similar to selenium plugin for firefox, minus the scripting it generates.


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