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Simple sabotage for software

Erik Bernhardsson

I guess I've always been fascinated with how well this has stood the test of time? You can of course make a series of obviously bad decisions, but you'd get fired quickly. Technology When joining, require a 6-18 months rewrite of core systems. Encourage communal ownership of systems. Blame the previous CTO.

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LLMs Demand Observability-Driven Development

Honeycomb

Many software engineers are encountering LLMs for the very first time, while many ML engineers are being exposed directly to production systems for the very first time. Namely, that LLMs are black boxes that produce nondeterministic outputs and cannot be debugged or tested using traditional software engineering techniques.

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AoAD2 Practice: Test-Driven Development

James Shore

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Test-Driven Development.

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Feedback Ladders: How We Encode Code Reviews at Netlify

Netlify

The code review is a critical part of life as a professional developer: in most engineering organizations, no code gets checked in without at least a second look from another engineer. To solve this, Netlify’s UX team developed shared terminology for code reviews that we call the Feedback Ladder! The Problem.

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Now In Tech: AI, Assessments, And The Great Over-Correction

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Gone is the massive workforce that came to a workplace boasting three-course meals in the cafeteria and needed yoga rooms and sleeping pods to function. Companies across the board are reviewing their team structures, looking for removable cushioning, cutting down on middle management, and wanting to do more with less.

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LLMs Demand Observability-Driven Development

Honeycomb

Many software engineers are encountering LLMs for the very first time, while many ML engineers are being exposed directly to production systems for the very first time. Namely, that LLMs are black boxes that produce nondeterministic outputs and cannot be debugged or tested using traditional software engineering techniques.

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12 famous ERP disasters, dustups and disappointments

CIO

However, the measure of success has been historically at odds with the number of projects said to be overrunning or underperforming, as Panorama has noted that organizations have lowered their standards of success. million year-on-year drop in gross profit for the quarter following the go-live was primarily due to the ERP problem.