Indeed, this is the most important skill we need next to coding. Especially in a remote work culture.

Now this is a truly impressive technology! This will make facial motion capture a really smoother process.

Interesting musing about a language size and how it evolves over time. There's clearly tension between making it too big and keeping it relevant to modern uses.

Now, this starts to become interesting. This is a first example of trying to plug symbolic and sub-symbolic approaches together in the wild. This highlights some limitations of this particular (quite a bit rough) approach, we'll see how far that can go before another finer approach is needed.

How surprising, did they realize this was one more fad they were helping to fuel?

Interesting algorithm for generating image placeholders.

Training sets are obviously already contaminated... now it'll be a race of hiding such mistake under the carpet with human interventions. That'll be a boon for misinformation. That's what we get for a useless large models arm race.

Nice refactoring and design pattern catalogs.

It's clearly way too reliable. This needs explicit hardening.

This is a very good point, it's good to reduce containers size. Be careful of the cost though.

For all we like to point out the software industry for blowing up estimates and budgets... it's not a unique phenomenon, civil engineering is also struggling with it. This is a good reminder.

This looks interesting, I especially like the fact that it's easily encrypted, definitely a good thing regarding secrets. Now I wonder if that's easy to couple with direnv...

Still a bit young but looks like an interesting and fast tool to decode random data.

Looks like an interesting vector image format. Let's see if it gets some buy in.

Very nice approach to avoid the font bloating on the web. I'm slightly concerned about the maintenance over time but at least it has proper fallbacks and the fonts used seem widespread enough (for now).

Now this is a properly balanced piece which looks beyond the hype. Usable yes, if hallucinations don't have a high impact. Can the hallucinations be solved? To be seen, I personally have my doubts with the current architecture... at least banking it all on human feedback is being very naive about the scale of the task.

Interesting benchmark, this seems to point toward AVIF and JPEG-XL as two great codecs for pictures.

A good point... everybody should know at this point that delegation should be favor. So why do we keep turning to inheritance even in cases we shouldn't? Convenience and writing less code mainly. Unfortunately that leads to bugs more often than not.

Technical debt was an interesting metaphor to kickstart the conversation but has been overused. It can still be useful, especially with the proposed approach here to make it intentional and explicit. This can be factored in how to drive the project.

OK, not a perfect article, I think there are a couple of blind spots in the reasoning (I doubt all the estimates were as systematically bloated as presented here). Still, it's another interesting account of the problems created by the cargo cult agile. It indeed seems to resonate with the fact that the tech sector is very hype driven. A lot of useless work then ensues.