their products are just just good enough to allow them to put a checkbox in a feature table to allow it to be sold to someone who will then never have to use it
but not even a penny more will be spent than the absolute bare minimum to allow that
this explains Teams, Azure, and everything else they make you can think of
How do you QA adding weird prediction tool to say Outlook. I have to use Outlook at one of my clients and have switched to writing all emails in VS Code and then pasting it to Outlook as “autocomplete” is unbearable… Not sure QA is possible with tools like these…
Part of QA used to be evaluating whether a change was actually helpful in doing the thing it was supposed to be doing.
... why, it's almost like in eliminating the QA function, we removed the final checks and balances on developers (read: PMs) from implementing whatever ass-backwards feature occurs to them.
Just in time for 'AI all the things!' directives to come down from on high.
exactly!! though evaluating whether a change was actually helpful in doing the thing it was supposed to be doing is hard when no one knows what it is supposed to be doing :)
Growing up in the internet age (I'm 28 now) it took me until well into my 20s to realize how many classes of problems can be solved in 30 seconds on a phone call vs hours on a computer.
The hotel owner eventually half carried me to the hospital because I got so weak from dehydration, though I'm glad I left my hotel room when I did I had difficulty avoiding fainting.
Rafael was the absolute best. He also made sure the hospital saw me right away since I was so weak. But once I was hooked up I used ChatGPT to scan the ivs they had me hooked up to since I had no idea what they were pumping into me since it was all in Spanish.
You said you solved problems with ChatGPT's help. You described a problem Rafael and hospital staff solved for you. And the problem you solved with ChatGPT could have been solved with a dictionary.
I guess this was very American of me, but when I was so sick I wanted to know if my travel insurance would cover the hospital stay. ChatGPT confirmed that it did, and told me to get to a hospital. Ultimately the hotel owner was the person who carried me to the hospital, but i wasn't lucid enough to read through my travel insurance's benefits pdf. I suppose I should have just gone to the hospital with or without insurance, but sometimes when you're very sick you don't think straight.
Those are the main innovations tied to crypto trading. They do indeed have little to do with the blockchain or bitcoin itself, and do apply to any asset.
There are actually several startups whose pitch is to bring back those innovations to equities (note that this is different from tokenized equities).
> The last few years has revealed the extent to which HN is packed with middle-aged, conservative engineers who are letting their fear and anxiety drive their engineering decisions.
> Turns out experience can be self-limiting in the face of paradigm-shifting innovation.
It also turns out that experience can be what enables you to not waste time on trendy stuff which will never deliver on its promises. You are simply assuming that AI is a paradigm shift rather than a waste of time. Fine, but at least have the humility to acknowledge that reasonable people can disagree on this point instead of labeling everyone who disagrees with you as some out of touch fuddy-duddy.
I'm not assuming anything, I'm relying on my own experience of being an engineer for two decades and building stuff for all kinds of organizations in all kinds of stacks and languages. AI has radically increased my velocity and quality, though it's got a steep learning curve of its own, and many frustrations to deal with. But it's pretty obviously a paradigm shift, and not "trendy stuff which will never deliver on its promises". Even if the current LLMs never improve at all from here, they're still incredibly useful tools.
for what? unimportant
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