David Rosenfeld

Software & Personal development; Sr. Platform Engineer @Corning; PhD student @UCF; Human em-dash user. Alum: @TCNJ, @Penn, @UF (x2). Nulla tenaci invia est via.

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Found my new theme song:
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pov: your 15,000 line vibecoded PR hits production

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@Grady_Booch Yes. And this is how it has always been. Tool-makers enable tool-users who become the next generation of tool-makers.

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@businessbarista I'm surprised the CISO didn't say "AI opens a huge pile of security holes and data-loss prevention issues, which is why I haven't had a decent night's sleep in eighteen months." IMHO, this is the single biggest barrier to adoption in large enterprises.

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@RyanHoliday *furiously taking notes*

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This brings back memories from almost 25 years ago, when I worked for Adaptec. The build system I owned had one rack of machines running fairly obscure operating systems (UnixWare, FreeBSD, etc) so that we could build device drivers on them. Building for everything (or even a significant subset of everything) required a lot of extra hardware back then. And it likely still does, but I haven't been in that world for a while.

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@gothburz You should collect all these tweets in a book, so that I can have AI summarize it for me.

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@simplifyinAI This reminds me of my supply chain class: optimizing each segment separately yields a worse outcome than optimizing for the supply chain as a whole, because it can create similar competitive pressures.

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@dhh And who draws the line for “related to”? Is a question about band-aids or ibuprofen “related to” medicine? Is a question about Marbury v. Madison “related to” law?

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@ns123abc Why is it that the people I would expect to be the least trusting of AI seem to be the most naïvely, foolishly, credulously trusting of AI?

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The teacher matters a lot. My high school had a one-semester Shakespeare class that was always full. Awesome teacher—passionate about the subject, and incredibly knowledgeable.

We’d read through plays in a circle, with parts randomly assigned, changing every day. He explained Elizabethan usage, and pointed out the bawdy parts that were aimed at the groundlings. He explained that the word “nothing” usually means more than you think when you encounter it.

As I recall, we read Midsummer Night’s Dream, Othello, King Lear, R & J, and Hamlet in half a school year. That’s 18 weeks, or a bit more than three weeks per play. The final exam was two questions: Was Hamlet really mad? And did he really love Ophelia? You could answer the questions either way, as long as you supported your answer from the text.

Granted, I took this class 40 years ago. But it’s possible to teach real, substantial literature in ways that don’t torture the students or make them hate the material.

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@AlexAndBooks_ Depends on the subject matter. For technical stuff, I still go with physical books . I also buy a fair amount of used out-of-print books that don’t have ebook editions.

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RIP Scott Adams. I've been reading his work--whether Dilbert strips, his humor books, or his more serious books--for over 30 years. Nobody captured workplace absurdity the way he did. And his books on persuasion and reframing are highly useful.

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@joshgessner Can’t wait to see you get drafted!

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@Markmanson I am reminded of this every single day.

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@stevemagness Outcomes are often out of your control. That makes outcome goals risky and frustrating. Process goals can be completely within your control. You can control how much effort you put in, even if you can’t control the ultimate result.

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If you’re leaving refreshments out for Santa tonight, remember there’s a fine line between hospitality and bribery.

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From GMFB this morning: Kyle Brandt's great comment on Philip Rivers coming out of retirement at 44 to play in an NFL game for the first time in five years. @jayyang @chriswillx @tferriss

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@peterwildeford @CashCompounding I agree. Enforced isolation and disconnection drove a lot of this, and it will take a lot longer to recover than it took to inflict the damage.

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@AshleyWills @CoachDanGo They serve the same purpose and have the same effect, at least for me.

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@Jayyanginspires The toughest battles I’ve ever fought have been with myself.