Xkcd 1425 (Tasks) turns ten years old today | Hacker News
As with the newly improved sequencing pipeline, they wanted to transition from a system in which new tasks could be pushed onto their plate haphazardly to one in which they would pull in new work only when they were ready for it. To accomplish this goal, they sketched a diagram on some unused wall space that included a box for each step of their de
... See moreCal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
Sometimes, programming feels like magic: you chant some arcane incantation and a fleet of robots do your bidding. But sometimes, magic is mundane. If you’re willing to embrace the grind, you can pull off the impossible.
jacobian.org • Embrace the Grind
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From a software maintenance perspective there is little consensus on how to organize ML projects. It feels like websites before Rails came out: a bunch of random PHP scripts with an unholy mixture of business logic and markup sprinkled throughout.
tinyclouds.org • Google Brain Residency
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.pocket Wow. Still the same today. Big opportunity. Though folks like Hugging Face are starting to change this.
“The hardest thing,” he told me, “is that the systems you’re interacting with were built decades and decades ago . No one is building them; they were built in the past. You’ve effectively got to go and learn them from scratch.”
Packy McCormick • Clear Street: From COBOL to the Cloud
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The thing is, once it's clear what to do, the technical parts may be challenging, but they're pretty much achievable. What's really complicated is everything that happens before that. Before there's a working piece of software, a bunch of people need to communicate through different languages, since there are only humans in between the customer and... See more
Daniel Zacarias • It's Humans all the Way Down | Folding Burritos
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I often have people newer to the tech industry ask me for secrets to success. There aren’t many, really, but this secret — being willing to do something so terrifically tedious that it appears to be magic — works in tech too.
jacobian.org • Embrace the Grind
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Of course, the reality is more complex, and it’s better to think in terms of automation and autocomplete than vertical software and replacing designers, but whole layers of grunt work will be removed, just as they were with GUIs and SQL.
Benedict Evans • Benedict's Newsletter: No. 547
Jimmy Cerone added
Not sure if this is positive, but the most coherent take on AI I’ve seen so far. Realistic but not panicked.