fazzaro - Network

"Desperate poverty controls and ultimately breaks people as effectively as prison…..and some research says that it works even _more_...

"Desperate poverty controls and ultimately breaks people as effectively as prison…..and some research says that it works even _more_ powerfully."

https://www.alternet.org/2018/06/heres-how-higher-education-was-destroyed-5-basic-steps

"We're starting on a second generation of people, worldwide, who are day trading their emotions and confronting ideas that have no...

"We're starting on a second generation of people, worldwide, who are day trading their emotions and confronting ideas that have no past and little future."

https://seths.blog/2025/03/across-and-within/

"If Product hates Tech and Tech hates Product, you can see it in the code."#crossfunctional #silos #knowledgework...

"If Product hates Tech and Tech hates Product, you can see it in the code."

#crossfunctional #silos #knowledgework #systems

https://rss.com/podcasts/theengineeringroom/1903607/

"If they really wanted to know how to use technology to build a more efficient country, they would ask us."#doge #18f #efficiency...

"If they really wanted to know how to use technology to build a more efficient country, they would ask us."

#doge #18f #efficiency #usa

https://www.wethebuilders.org/

"If you're using an LLM to write code without even running it yourself, _what are you doing?_ Proving to yourself that the code...

"If you're using an LLM to write code without even running it yourself, _what are you doing?_ Proving to yourself that the code works is your job."

#ai #llms #softwareengineering

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/2/hallucinations-in-code/

"If there are four or five of us, we can deliver something none of us could do by ourselves. And that is when you have a team really...

"If there are four or five of us, we can deliver something none of us could do by ourselves. And that is when you have a team really able to innovate and change—when the relationships between them produce solutions that are better than the individuals would come up with."

#teaming #knowledgework #systems

https://rss.com/podcasts/theengineeringroom/1903607/

"The song is queer in the most fundamental sense of the word — defying convention, reveling in transgression. And on the internet in...

"The song is queer in the most fundamental sense of the word — defying convention, reveling in transgression. And on the internet in 2025, true transgression means making something algorithms can't promote."

https://www.garbageday.email/p/tumblr-users-did-something-unhinged-again

"This lets you keep moving forward and solving problems while keeping the boss informed and allowing them to add their two cents if it...

"This lets you keep moving forward and solving problems while keeping the boss informed and allowing them to add their two cents if it is important enough. You can also use this approach with a group of people."

#productivity #knowledgework #decisions #faster

https://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/3518

"You think that because you understand 'one' that you must therefore understand 'two' because one and one make two. But...

"You think that because you understand 'one' that you must therefore understand 'two' because one and one make two. But you forget that you must also understand 'and.'"

#systemsthinking #complexity #knowledgework

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1196427-you-think-that-because-you-understand-one-that-you-must

"Civilization now depends on software. We want the benefits of software to be universal. This includes the ability of people to...

"Civilization now depends on software. We want the benefits of software to be universal. This includes the ability of people to inspect, understand, and influence the software that affects them."

#software #code #humanity #transparency

https://github.com/DaneWeber/SoftwareCoachingCompany

"If your art practice is so ingrained in the brutal reality that Spotify has outlined for all of us, then what does the music...

"If your art practice is so ingrained in the brutal reality that Spotify has outlined for all of us, then what does the music you're not making sound like?"

#music #art #business

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/12/30/mood-machine-liz-pelly-book-review

"Once AI can do all the labour that keeps the economy going and the military powerful, the state has no more de facto reason to care...

"Once AI can do all the labour that keeps the economy going and the military powerful, the state has no more de facto reason to care about the demands of its humans."

#ai #agi #capital #work #humanity #government

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/KFFaKu27FNugCHFmh/by-default-capital-will-matter-more-than-ever-after-agi

"Pull Requests create blocking problems as people wait for approvals or merges. This has yielded many new experiments and...

"Pull Requests create blocking problems as people wait for approvals or merges. This has yielded many new experiments and practices—async pull requests, ephemeral PR environments, and byzantine branching strategies.

I can't help but wonder if we're spiraling toward complexity here for no good reason."

#softwareengineering #developerexperience #pullrequests #continuousintegration

https://newsletter.nerdnoir.com/p/modernizing-extreme-programming

"We've forgotten that. We're relying on machines and boilerplate job descriptions and overworked junior HR reps to do the most...

"We've forgotten that. We're relying on machines and boilerplate job descriptions and overworked junior HR reps to do the most important thing we do as leaders."

#ai #hiring #leadership #abdication #enshittification

https://ehandbook.com/the-real-reason-no-one-is-hiring-or-getting-hired-3b953383ebf7

"LLMs believe anything you tell them. Any systems that attempts to make meaningful decisions on your behalf will run into the same...

"LLMs believe anything you tell them. Any systems that attempts to make meaningful decisions on your behalf will run into the same roadblock"

#ai #llms #gullibility

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31/llms-in-2024/

"A hallucination is a pathology. It's something that happens when systems are not working properly.When an LLM fabricates a...

"A hallucination is a pathology. It's something that happens when systems are not working properly.

When an LLM fabricates a falsehood, that is not a malfunction at all. The machine is doing exactly what it has been designed to do: guess, and sound confident while doing it.

When LLMs get things wrong they aren't hallucinating. They are bullshitting."

#ai #llms #bullshit #hallucinations

https://thebullshitmachines.com/lesson-2-the-nature-of-bullshit/

"Weaving the fabric of the ensemble is not a runner's-up prize, it's the point."#teaming #ensemble...

"Weaving the fabric of the ensemble is not a runner's-up prize, it's the point."

#teaming #ensemble #knowledgework

https://seths.blog/2025/02/ensemble-stars/

"The key insight is that only resource that scales with the client teams are the client teams themselves. The next move is for the...

"The key insight is that only resource that scales with the client teams are the client teams themselves. The next move is for the specialist team to make their expertise self-service."

#software #productengineering #knowledgework #teams

https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/caterpillar-to-butterfly

"We are destroying software trying to produce code as fast as possible, not as well designed as possible."#software #productivity...

"We are destroying software trying to produce code as fast as possible, not as well designed as possible."

#software #productivity #design

https://antirez.com/news/145

"Pretty much anything you'd find useful while sitting down at a spreadsheet, you can also make useful through a little phone...

"Pretty much anything you'd find useful while sitting down at a spreadsheet, you can also make useful through a little phone webapp."

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/12/making-tiny-no-code-webapps-out-of-spreadsheets-is-a-weirdly-fulfilling-hobby/