2010’s was when more traditional CS courses also started moving from traditional languages and content to JS etc…following industry demand.

A lot of tech conferences were pure tech. Now a lot of them are agile, soft skills based, introverted nerds pushed out.

It’s certainly a different place from the 2010’s.

20 years ago it was the fast lean option when there was Netbeans and Eclipse. Today it's ok, still good feature wise but fast and lean it is not anymore when I've used it for Scala oand Kotlin.

Sure electric in raw numbers wins on top trumps.

This is fine for a lot of people who want to go to A to B and car is just a tool to do that

Cars like the GR Corolla are about the engaging driving experience, the road feel / handling, the gear shifts, usable power, not outright top speed. It's a machine and some people like mastering controlling the machine and that mastery makes them smile, some even find fun.

Coinciding with this, suppliers put daily connection charges up.

It's not even the new one being "less deterministic and often costs more".

Application prompts overfit the model they are using to get the output they want. Switch model, the prompt no longer produces the output you expect and you may not be able to get the output you need anymore.

If a model is critical for your application/business you want the ability to run it yourself otherwise you are stuck when it becomes unavailable.

Atlassian has values "Open company, no bullshit" which they selectively use. "Open company, no bullshit" until it isn't. Example, this case, upsetting Mikes ego.

I was on a team at Atlassian that got constructively dissambled after not being happy with some changes for the worse. Worst retro I've ever been in, all developers heads on desks, manager: "suggest how we fix this issue", developers silent as every answer from the developer got the reply from manager on the lines of "no, you know we can't do that anymore". Then the digging through historic slack messages and social media posts started followed by departures...

That was a very long time ago now, seems not much has changed.

Currently driving a 2010 euro hot hatch, when that dies will be looking at a 2016-2017 vintage.

I watched a very interesting video over the weekend, the lost discipline of the alarm. It goes in to the research of alarms and alarm fatigue negative consequences.

Seems very relevant to the latest generation vehicles.

https://youtu.be/Ira28fgSF7M?si=-GrsTTGemLY1LwLw

If I ever buy a “modern” car I’ll pull the fuse for all the annoying beeps and bongs and safety features. The only safety features I care about are traction control, abs, parking sensors and maybe blind spot mirrors. Blind spot mirrors are a double edged sword as it means people now stop doing shoulder checks relying on the blind spot mirror light only.

Yamaha’s blue core engine used in its mid sized 300cc scooters can do 2.8L per 100km. It’s 125 engines can do 1.8L per 100km.

They’re incredibly efficient little vehicles

So far electric scooters can only compete in inner city with the equivalent power of a small 125 and limited range/speed due to size/weight constraints

A modern 300cc four stroke Vespa will use 3.3 litres of fuel per 100km and Euro 5 means noise is quiet.

As far as things go, modern scooters are great, practical, economical vehicles.

Facebook groups has taken over a lot of the old automotive forums as they shutdown due to running/maintenance costs. They were a treasure trove of information.

Facebook groups makes it impossible to find information.

The search simply doesn’t work and doesn’t even try to work. Seen something posted before, good luck finding it again.

They’ve now removed chronological ordering option, your choice is algorithmic feed or algorithmic feed. That means you view it once you get some content, view it again, get different content, based on some unknown heuristic.

Forums are great for the consumer. Publicly indexable, easy to find content you know exists, easy to find historic content. Easy to interact with.

Social media only cares about new (fresh) content that drives engagement (clicks,views,shares) that it can put an advert on. Great for mindless doom scrolling, not so great for the treasure trove of easy searchable information forums were.

So they're following best practice, not committing secrets but agents running locally can still see them even if sandboxing to the working directory.

I've taken to storing configs using XDG_CONFIG_HOME and have the app auto resolve them by convention or take a cli arg to specify the config path. All secrets are in files, not env vars.

That way when using sandboxing the agent can never see the configs or secrets as outside the working directory.

Cars are more and more becoming white goods appliances with the driving experience becoming less and less a priority. Even enthusiast cars now are about raw numbers and need electronics to reign them in to make useable for the average driver on the average road.

The average user probably doesn’t even want to drive and have AI do it for them.

Repairability is becoming less viable as mechanical parts replaced with screens and digital locks. Parts availability is already an issue, only going to get worse especially with the pace of new cars are being churned out from China.

The end will be car as a subscription. We already have it with leasing, and BMW having to pay to use your electric seats.

I was a paying customer for 15 years and migrated away with the last price increases due to "AI-powered functionalities" and the new features making the product worse on top of already being salty over when they stopped the one-time licenses in favor of subscription.

Happens on Windows/Mac

It seems to do an update check before rendering any UI, if there’s an update it must download and apply it before showing the UI. To a user trying to open the app, it’s as if it’s broken not loading.

It’s a massive pain, trying to access email but need to wait five minutes as the app decides it’s not going to open and update instead of giving the option not to, or doing it transparently in the background so app useable and prompting to restart when ready

Trying to save files in office is just as frustrating. Some dark UX going on making it difficult to save locally instead of in one drive.

He has since purchased a private jet under controversy.

His company now sponsors an F1 team.

He now seems to be a typical billionaire. You don’t get to be a billionaire without being ruthless.

He probably is now a rich jerk. When I worked at Atlassian and on boarded, one of the managers said if you are in a lift with Mike or Scott, and they asked what you do here, you better tell them what value you are bringing…

Mike was also very public he was proud Atlassian was not a high payer, he wouldn’t compete with Google etc on pay, at the time, yet people still wanted to work at Atlassian. Also didn’t hide the fact they absolutely utilised lack of local market knowledge for visa holders when nearly have the office was a temporary visa holder at the time.

Seen this multiple times

The problem is agile as in the original manifesto was an ethos, not a process.

Everything since the manifesto, called agile, has tried to wrap an ethos up as a process, playing lip service forgetting the ethos.

High performing teams are already doing agile, following the ethos without attempting to be agile. High performing teams made to do agile become average teams and low performing teams made to do agile can become average teams.

They have phones, computers, digital services just like the US and Europe. Makes sense they want a data center in the region, close to them just like the US and Europe have data enters close to their users.

Playing with Claude, if you tell it to do something, it'll produce something. Sometimes it's output is ok, sometimes it's not.

I find I need to iterate with Claude, tell it no, tell it how to improve it's solution or do something in a different way. It's kind of like speed running iterating over my ideas without spending a few hours doing it manually, writing lots of code then deleting it to end with my final solution.

If I had no prior coding knowledge i'd go with what ever the LLM gave me and end up with poor quality applications.

Knowing how to code gives you the advantage still using an LLM. Saying that, i'm pessimistic what my future holds as an older software engineer starting to find age/experince is an issue when an employer can pay someone less with less experience to churn out code with prompts when a lot of time the industry lives by "it's good enough".