chu@ajaRED

curious about: #africa #cities #data #design #product #management #maps #information #systems #strategy

[chu@ajaRED @ajaREDiA]

"The value of time
The success of perseverance
The pleasure of working
The dignity of simplicity
The worth of character
The power of example
The influence of life
The obligation of duty
The wisdom of economy
The virtue of patience
The improvement of talent
The joy of originating"

[chu@ajaRED @ajaREDiA]

@fiveoutofnine Happy hump day! 🍻

[chu@ajaRED @ajaREDiA]

This Week in Family Tree news:

Family trees are about people, and people belong to places. You can now capture the geography behind your lineage: place of birth, current residence, and place of rest.
Just start typing a location and pick from live suggestions. We capture precise coordinates and settlements for you.

Every place you add is a step closer to helping you visualize your family tree scattered across towns, cities, and continents.

Try it out, and as always, we'd love your feedback.

https://t.co/IyXF7OHpG8

[chu@ajaRED @ajaREDiA]

@ReignSwords fair take, but what percentage of ‘virtual’ assistants actually do?

[chu@ajaRED @ajaREDiA]

I wonder what agentic AI does to the virtual assistant market over the next few years.
Some of the drudgery and minutia of knowledge work can now be easily automated, with supervision.

As a personal example, I don't need PMO or anyone else to block calendars and set up meetings any more.
My first successful 12 week year was done with agents time blocking my calendar.

[chu@ajaRED @ajaREDiA]

You don't need to be able to do the work of your engineers to be a great engineering manager, but you need a decent architect.

[chu@ajaRED @ajaREDiA]

LiteLLM is now actively affecting my peace and joy.

I like when utilities just work well silently and we never hear a peep about it again.

[JFrog @jfrog]

🚨LiteLLM hijacked again: version 1.107.0.

PHP for breakfast, Python for lunch! ☕

The JFrog Security Research team discovered a PyPI package hijack affecting LiteLLM (23M weekly downloads). All seven PyPI wheels carry files that run on package install time, steal credentials and open an hourly remote-code channel, even if your app never imports litellm. The hijack also affected LiteLLM's official Docker Hub images, with the same payload.

If it's anywhere in your environment, don't start clean-up by running pip. Starting Python can re-trigger a payload that steals credentials and runs at interpreter startup.

The JFrog Security Research team has detailed the attack, the indicators of compromise and the remediation steps.

Read our blog for full details: https://t.co/dXHPEHkQqY

#DevOps #PyPI #SoftwareSupplyChain #Cybersecurity

[chu@ajaRED @ajaREDiA]

Huge trap. You are a problem solving vessel applying intelligence.

[Zach Wilson @Zachly]

Stop identifying with your job title! It’s a trap that will keep your poor

You aren’t a data engineer or a product manager.
You’re a human capable of adapting and learning so much.

When I was working at Airbnb, they were like, you’re one of the best data engineers, Zach. We want you to become a principal data engineer!

The glory of being a principal engineer in big tech. Wow!

And I drank the Koolaid fully from 2016 to 2023. But so much sugar ultimately made my stomach sick and I realized my life was more than SQL, Scala, Spark and Airflow.

I irrationally left a $600k data engineering job for a $0 content creator business.

I was destined to be an internet clown and educator.

I traded SQL for shitposting.
I traded Spark for sales.
I traded Scala for scaling my business.
I traded Airflow for art.

And now this absolutely absurd decision in 2023 is looking better and better as technical skills continue to get undermined by AI.

Give yourself to reinvent yourself!
Give yourself permission to change jobs!

You’re a multi potential human

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change!

[Chomba Bupe @ChombaBupe]

TL DR: From a technical perspective LMs are impressive peace of technology.

But the data acquisition processes for training are questionable.

These models are some what good at recombination of existing components which makes them reliant on human data but are not intelligent.

[chu@ajaRED @ajaREDiA]

Same thing + teach in uni

[Wale (Ace) @Ace_KYD]

What would you do for work if compensation was not a problem?

[J. Rolf Haltza @RolfHaltza]

Office work replaced all aspects of life, from family and friends to intellectual and cultural pursuits, with "office life". So I can see why someone could think removing office work from some people can be bad, because it now leaves them with nothing.

But the point of remote work is that you can live a full life! You don't have to only socialize with those in the office, you don't have to only do what's acceptable to do in an office. You are free.

[chu@ajaRED @ajaREDiA]

@tomilola_ng I’d like to list your solution on https://t.co/lngaJzOi83 - is there a blogpost with more details?

[chu@ajaRED @ajaREDiA]

Automating evaluation pipelines with langfuse.

[chu@ajaRED @ajaREDiA]

@OluyomiOjo The disciplined pursuit of less is even more important now.

[chu@ajaRED @ajaREDiA]

“Do you believe you can "get an education" in your childhood that will
serve you all your life without any checking or revision?”

[chu@ajaRED @ajaREDiA]

Lots of people are under illusions about how things happen, how things really get done.
Things don’t get done by committees of decision makers, but when a few people get up and take action, moving it from a theoretical idea to something specific that can be iterated on.

[chu@ajaRED @ajaREDiA]

@IamKenegeorge It could do this over a year ago.

[BIGGEST LION 🦁 @xquire147]

Today is throwback Thursday, let’s see what you look like 10 years ago.

[chu@ajaRED @ajaREDiA]

@kidehen great explainer, if these could be combined, it'd make for a very powerful visual and shareable snippet.

[chu@ajaRED @ajaREDiA]

Do you still need to build admin UI's you'll have to maintain for your enterprise saas?
When?
If your admins are already using an agent for other work, could you solve a lot of their use cases by giving them an MCP server?

[chu@ajaRED @ajaREDiA]

People who think stuff like ‘every developer should complete a minimum of XX story points per time period’ are never going to ship anything phenomenal.