Ciara Byrne

Product manager at JetBrains. Lapsed tech journalist, CTO and software developer.

[Ciara Byrne @deciara]

Annotation for LLMs is "work stripped of all its normal trappings: a schedule, colleagues, knowledge of what they were working on or whom they were working for." https://t.co/vs9MnEqr7S

[Ciara Byrne @deciara]

The electric grid wouldn’t exist without welders, machinists, mechanics, carpenters, pipe fitters, and many others. Can we train enough of them before time runs out? https://t.co/RmLdc5oeq8

[Ciara Byrne @deciara]

Musk also doesn't seem to know what kind of company he is running. As others have pointed out Twitter is primarily a people company, not a tech company. Being “much more engineering-driven” and "writing great code" doesn't help with thorny people-wrangling problems.

[Ciara Byrne @deciara]

The Musk people management method 1) Fire half your colleagues by email 2) Ignore all advice from employees with years of experience running Twitter 3) Torch advertiser and other relationships staff built over years 4) Demand remaining employees work all hours in spite of 1-3

[Ciara Byrne @deciara]

Big agriculture warns farming must change or risk ‘destroying the planet’ https://t.co/olFresA69b

[Ciara Byrne @deciara]

The top 1% of earners in the UK are responsible for the same amount of carbon dioxide emissions in a single year as the bottom 10% over more than two decades https://t.co/9XoVW4aWKZ

[Ciara Byrne @deciara]

“The climate and nature crises, their fates entwined, are not some faraway threat our grandchildren will solve with still-to-be-discovered technology.” https://t.co/rAzBQYqBmJ

[Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @PP_Rubens]

Mark Zuckerberg in a previous life, and with A+ codpiece, painted in 1544 by Georg Pencz whose day is today.

[Ciara Byrne @deciara]

Loud labourers only do work that can be bragged about. This means people underinvest in the quiet and unflashy work that makes any institution or organisation operate. https://t.co/UbQsUtyu8O

[Ciara Byrne @deciara]

The Blackstone rebellion: how Denmark took on the world’s biggest commercial landlord https://t.co/LM69ulAQSG

[Ciara Byrne @deciara]

In America we transferred credit for economic prosperity from the laboring masses to the brilliant, opportunistic, or plain lucky individuals directing those masses. The name we found for this modern-day savior was the innovator. https://t.co/bck2y6K7KM

[Ciara Byrne @deciara]

Trader Joe’s workers say it closed its sole NYC wine shop because they wanted to unionize it https://t.co/bhFfrprjUi

[Ethics in Bricks @EthicsInBricks]

"What Orwell failed to predict is that we'd buy the cameras ourselves, and that our biggest fear would be that nobody was watching."
- Keith Lowell Jensen

[Darth Putin @DarthPutinKGB]

Day 181 of my 3 day war. Russian tanks have made it to Kiev!!

I remain a master strategist.

[Tariq KRIM @tariqkrim]

RIP Kathleen Booth, who Invented the first assembly language.
She was 100 years old, and I have not seen anything in the news about it, unfortunately. With her husband, they formed the smallest computer group in the UK. Respect!

[Ciara Byrne @deciara]

Workers are getting fired for missing shifts due to medical emergencies, pregnancy issues and funerals. https://t.co/JtQYj8zREg

[Ciara Byrne @deciara]

What would happen if ten tech titans were stuck in lockdown Dublin and dying for a pint? @nuascannan's upcoming film takes a good guess.
https://t.co/QBf9WeNlhx

[Ciara Byrne @deciara]

Dark kitchens, isolated couriers and overcharged restaurants. Super-depressing but thorough investigation of how delivery apps are changing the restaurant trade. https://t.co/tsCRteQNrk

[Ciara Byrne @deciara]

Why do rich people love quiet? https://t.co/gxbXDUC4LL

[Blue Ridge Labs @BlueRidgeLabs]

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