While there is increased complexity on top of all the software thats being built today, I reckon the focus on speed (and shipping to prod) over quality has also led to the increasing number of bugs. The mindset shift from shipping quality products (not just software) to shipping something that is good enough has been the mantra of management in recent years. When business schools and tech leaders prioritize the idea that we need to be more agile and every sprint needs to be a production release, these are the results we get.
You'd probably see a lot more examples from entrepreneurs/business folks who don't have a technical background. I would never put anything materially complicated in production without thoroughly reviewing.
AWS Certifications do help to a certain extent to convey your knowledge of the AWS ecosystem to consultancies and their clients. I don't have a certification but almost all of the consultancies I've worked with advocate for it just to give the client more confidence. Mind you these are the larger consultancies with larger clients so they tend to like these certifications as a signal. Have you ever had a chance to work with the various components in the ecosystem already?
Interested to keep updated on this point. As a consultant, I've worked on transformation of legacy applications so this would help me greatly as well. We've worked on pretty archaic systems where no one knows how the system works even if we have the source code.
I can provide evidence for your claim. The technical debt can easily snowball if the review process is not stringent enough to keep out unnecessary functions.
It’s going to be extremely difficult if PR and code reviews do not prune unnecessary functions. From what I’m experiencing now, there’s a lot of additional code that gets generated.
This is exactly the issue I’m facing especially when working with AI-generated codebases.
Coding is significantly faster but my understanding of the system takes a lot longer because I’m having to merge my mental model with what was produced.
There could be many factors at play here so it’s not clear what the main issue is. However, from experience, US VC funds typically come from other US institutions and so it’s an easier sell when the corporation is US-based. Rules and regulations are more well understood and less complex for funds. The article states the requirement is to flip the structure to have the parent company based in one of the 3 countries mentioned. Presumably, better business/returns/policies
What’s missing from the writer’s analysis is also the desire from the population to create such businesses. Having lived in Asia for a bit, most of these small businesses are not wildly profitable and not everyone is willing to put in the hard work and effort to running these affordable restaurants.
Have you tried using non-LLM based methods? Like starting with something rules-based and working through a layered multi-model setup?
That’s what we’ve been using for document extraction where accuracy needs precision (capital markets documents, medical assessments). We had a go at pure LLM with medical documents but the output was poor and felt like it would take substantial investment to create something more robust.
Yes - 100%. That's why I have a Slack where I invite friends and other people hacking away. Planning on setting up more remote social stuff to beat the 'loneliness' factor. Happy to send you an invite if you want. We're friendly.
Interesting. During my time there, I found the scene to be decently vibrant. It's definitely not SF but there are quite a few events and get-togethers happening around.
I was actually going to comment on the same fact about professionalism growing into English football. Back when the Premier League era began compared to now is just a whole different level as what most players have been saying on SkySports. You see players playing in their mid and late 30s.
I was also going to hypothesize that players are significantly mentally equipped to cope with away pressures and their tactical shape stays more consistent regardless of being home or away.
This is really cool and I can see a ton of opportunities to leverage this in the enterprise. Using the scanner, does it scan what's on the marketplace as opposed to what's already installed?
I think someone had already mentioned that it would be useful to have this as an extension to scan existing installed extensions but would there be a way to scan just prior to extension installation?
I was actually thinking of setting up some coaching sessions / workshops. If you're interested, I'd love to connect with you just to get a understanding of folks would be looking for and put together a program of some sort. In exchange, I'd be happy to share my experiences and exchange ideas on improving soft skills.
I've worked as a software engineer and as a consultant and went from engineering to business back to engineering again.
Reach out @ teren@<HN username>.ca