Much of software engineering is becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish from, if not product management, then certainly engineering management. You have teams of 10 people building things in months that would've taken a much larger company years.

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But LLMs, critically, take care of not just the drudgery, but also the most interesting, prestigious, and mentally demanding parts of the job. Fancy algorithms. Architecture and systems design. They know the literature better than you do, and they can put it into practice.

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say it louder for the people at the back - "incidents like [Hugging Face] are the result of human negligence and institutional failure" "if we buy into these narratives, we lose sight of what's important: holding those who choose to build and deploy these systems accountable"

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Went to see Heavens to Betsy at the Black Cat last night. Corin Tucker, of course, continues to be one of the greatest singers ever. What a voice!

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Any retrospective application is intolerable, for anyone. It contradicts natural justice and shows that Britain does not keep its word. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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