Five for Friday – September 6, 2024
I am back – sort of. I spent a week in the desert with 50,000 friends, and came back with a cold. I’m mostly better now, but do have a few things to share.
- I’ve been reading a few articles about Plang – and while it’s not my favorite code, I like the idea of being able to create self-correcting code.
- Articles like this one on paying your engineers to stay, are frequent. The concept is correct, but (IMO), not for every employee. If someone is important for long term success of the company, keep them engaged, and pay them well, but other folks may be better off leaving for greener pastures.
- This article from Hazel Weakly is jam packed with ideas and concepts that teams should embrace. Home Baked Abstractions, Store Bought Implementations
- Johanna Rothman is cranking out a wonderful series on How to Calculate the Cost of Delay to Rank All the Work. Part 3 is full of great insights (but of course, feel free to read the whole thing)
- If I could have a penny for every f*%#^@ post this week on the failure of chatgpt to count the ‘R’s in the word strawberry I’d have almost a dollar! For those of you still confused and after two years still don’t have a clue how LLMs work, here’s an article to help. It’s not very good, but it’s simple and hopefully understandable.
Me and my snark will be back in another week.