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You're a gyro, Navneet.
November 8, 2025 at 9:39 PM
High "productivity" productivity there.
November 6, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Reposted by Tom Slee
Weirdly, the soon-to-be famous NYT headline "Did women ruin the workplace?" turned out to be true for BBC announcer Martine Croxall who used the word "women" without formal permission.
November 6, 2025 at 4:33 PM
This is me right now. I have some stuff I want to make available as a package on PyPI. How do I do that? Write me a build.sh. What's the best way to document it? Can I arrange it so is a command? All absolutely well-known stuff that it can walk me through and do for me.
November 6, 2025 at 2:49 PM
+1. The biggest boost to SQL developer productivity would be to permit trailing commas in the SELECT clause (as in python lists). Is there any database that does that? Don't think so.
November 5, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Yes but Mr Carney is a "serious" person with "authority" and "standing". Apparently.
November 3, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Actual British person? OK (and Canadian)
Remembers 1975? Yes.
But did not watch Are U Being Served. So no comment except when I go back I'm amazed how much WW2 is still part of the culture there, far more than here. Also please stop mentioning the 1966 World Cup.
November 3, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Maybe (I'm not with them now and have no loyalty). I just meant that they reorganized the company around it and threw a bunch of money at it. So, did not see it as a bubble. Plus, I suspect they were driven by customers telling them "if you don't do it we'll get someone else".
November 2, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Integrating frontier models into their applications and processes and corporate data, much of which lives in SAP systems. It's not "new LLMs" but it's a complex business and where the rubber hits the $ road for enterprises.
November 2, 2025 at 6:42 PM
That seems an odd thing to say, in that I used to work for the biggest European software company (SAP) and they have been throwing everything at it for years now. Maybe you have something different in mind when you say "European tech people"?
November 2, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Excellent
November 2, 2025 at 3:13 AM
This strategy of "more runs" is intriguing. I hope they go with it.
November 2, 2025 at 2:36 AM