Tatjana Lobza
tlobza.bsky.social
Tatjana Lobza
@tlobza.bsky.social
Software engineer, cat mum, chocolate addict
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Over on X, Musk seems to be pushing his own posts directly onto users' notification pages, even if they do not follow him, in a category comically labeled 'Elon Musk' above the breaking news that 'Elon Musk posted'

He's making those X devs implement new levels of dear leader shit over there
December 18, 2024 at 7:16 PM
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You know how you can sense when a text was generated by AI? Its not just the use of "delve". It turns out that the grammar is slightly different too. It even varies between models!

This paper is fascinating: arxiv.org/html/2410.16...
Do LLMs write like humans? Variation in grammatical and rhetorical styles
arxiv.org
December 13, 2024 at 12:34 AM
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Schrödingers documentation:
If there are docs, noone will read them.
If there are no docs, everyone will complain.
March 16, 2024 at 7:19 AM
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I still aspire to this list
"Take the courage to attack wathever code the team fear the most" is hands down the most underappriciated skill to have as a software engineer.

Thanks @kentbeck.bsky.social yet one time again for this amazing book.
December 13, 2024 at 4:28 PM
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Every time I talk about learning to read code, a million* people chime in with "let's just write readable code". This misses the point. Yes, please do that. But when you inherit a codebase, and when you let AI generate your code, you don't have any choice.

trishagee.com/2020/09/07/r...
Reading Code is a Skill - Trisha Gee
I'm inspired to write this post because Someone Is Wrong On The Internet. Of course a more accurate statement would be "I disagree with some aspects of what someone on the internet said, even though t...
trishagee.com
December 3, 2024 at 11:31 AM