Category: work
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Baseball Stats
Now I know a little about how the MVP voting works, and it is way more complicated than I expected.
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No Pressure
This did happen, but it was a pretty informal meeting overall, so if that wasn’t enough time for all the demos they could save one for the next meeting. So actually not much pressure.
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Be There For Others
This may be one of the more compelling reasons I’ve heard so far for return-to-office: that in-office culture is especially beneficial for folks starting out when they’re picking up good habits, skills, and domain knowledge.
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Human Overlords
I’m not sure if it’s better or worse to think that the AI could genuinely feel sorry for making a mistake.
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Silence Is Golden
There have been some cases where asking an AI to rate itself gives sort of funny results.
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Deployment Break
It does feel kind of like being grounded for bad behavior.
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Last Meeting of the Day
Someone told me a story about the executive in their meeting being very generously willing to go over the scheduled time as it was their last meeting of the day, and they’re usually hard to get time with, but unfortunately that didn’t work for everyone.
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Already Broken
I feel like this is good place to note that this wasn’t based on something that recently really happened …with my team’s service.
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High-Impact Typo
Typos in configuration might have been a common type of error 10 years ago, but it’s going to get a lot of scrutiny now.
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What Changed?
Just another great day that somebody got to have in meetings! (Thankfully not me.)