Jose Luis Talens

Software engineer

[Jose Luis Talens @jltalens]

"A monad is like a burrito" of the AI world

[ThePrimeagen @ThePrimeagen]

Within 2 days we have hit the 10,000 word Twitter article explanation of what a loop is.

This is by far the worst timeline

[Jonathan Blow @Jonathan_Blow]

One of the main reasons big companies die is because the political processes, that were put in place to enable a bunch of people to work together, become a factory of reasons why they can’t do anything good, and have to do things that are lame. The company evolves into a thing that preemptively shoots down its future prosperity.

[José M. Sánchez @jmsan1992]

subió el budget de tokens, subió el output por trabajador, pero el revenue es el mismo... wtf is goin on?

[Jose Luis Talens @jltalens]

@EtiquetaNegra44 Uno que pena canas se acuerda de los partidos de aquella época, y no pocos eran aburridísimos comparados con los de ahora. Ni te cuento de la época con los Pistons de Billups y compañía.

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees.

$30 per seat per month.

$1.4 million annually.

I called it "digital transformation."

The board loved that phrase.

They approved it in eleven minutes.

No one asked what it would actually do.

Including me.

I told everyone it would "10x productivity."

That's not a real number.

But it sounds like one.

HR asked how we'd measure the 10x.

I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards."

They stopped asking.

Three months later I checked the usage reports.

47 people had opened it.

12 had used it more than once.

One of them was me.

I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds.

It took 45 seconds.

Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations.

But I called it a "pilot success."

Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail.

The CFO asked about ROI.

I showed him a graph.

The graph went up and to the right.

It measured "AI enablement."

I made that metric up.

He nodded approvingly.

We're "AI-enabled" now.

I don't know what that means.

But it's in our investor deck.

A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT.

I said we needed "enterprise-grade security."

He asked what that meant.

I said "compliance."

He asked which compliance.

I said "all of them."

He looked skeptical.

I scheduled him for a "career development conversation."

He stopped asking questions.

Microsoft sent a case study team.

They wanted to feature us as a success story.

I told them we "saved 40,000 hours."

I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up.

They didn't verify it.

They never do.

Now we're on Microsoft's website.

"Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot."

The CEO shared it on LinkedIn.

He got 3,000 likes.

He's never used Copilot.

None of the executives have.

We have an exemption.

"Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction."

I wrote that policy.

The licenses renew next month.

I'm requesting an expansion.

5,000 more seats.

We haven't used the first 4,000.

But this time we'll "drive adoption."

Adoption means mandatory training.

Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches.

But completion will be tracked.

Completion is a metric.

Metrics go in dashboards.

Dashboards go in board presentations.

Board presentations get me promoted.

I'll be SVP by Q3.

I still don't know what Copilot does.

But I know what it's for.

It's for showing we're "investing in AI."

Investment means spending.

Spending means commitment.

Commitment means we're serious about the future.

The future is whatever I say it is.

As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

[javi santana @javisantana]

I wrote this 2 years ago and today in the company retreat opening session is going to be one of the main topics: a developer today is not what a developer used to be during the last 40 years. -->

A couple of years back, I bought myself one of those family cars. It's not an SUV, in case you're wondering, I still have my sanity. The vehicle in question has what they call "adaptive cruise control," among many other stupid things.

I'd tried similar systems before and hadn't been convinced; maybe I didn't use them enough, but my memory is that they weren't that good. I don't want to get too sidetracked, I'll get to the point: after 20 years with a driver's license, my way of driving has changed. Now I use the system constantly; it's the "default" mode. It would be absurd not to do it this way; it's much, much better than me, it reacts much sooner than I do. In some emergency situations, when I've gone to put my foot on the brake, the car was already braking. In 20 years, no one in their right mind can think that this system, won't become mandatory on the motorway, just like the airbag or the seatbelt was back in its day.

I've been programming for almost exactly the same number of years, and exactly the same thing is happening to me with LLM. It makes no sense to program without this, it's not that it's going to teach you to program, in fact, you still need to know how, but it's much faster, more precise, and if you know how to use it, it saves you the parts of development that are a pain in the ass.
But it's not just for programming; it's for designing. For example, does a message provide enough information to fix the problem? You ask GPT, and if it doesn't know, a mediocre human developer will rarely know how to fix it. Is the API interface somewhat predictable? Just pass it the documentation and tell it to give you some examples. And I don't want to talk about integrations, beyond chats, in applications; I still think LLM is the best human-machine interface since the mouse or the touchscreen.

Does this mean it's going to replace a developer? I doubt it, you still have to know what you want to do, know how to organize, test, have an overview of the system, and so on. In fact, right now, LLMs are still far from being able to be integrated well into purely deterministic systems.

The reality is that I'm already a developer leaning towards old, and I'm using it as an improvement over an old system (although sometimes iterating is a winning horse). I'm not an LLM native programmer, right now, I have a bionic arm, but I'm not yet Robocop. I'd like to be able to do a reset and learn to program again but based 100% on LLM. I'm sure that someone who starts programming like this will do it in a radically different way, although we also can't forget that, just like when you use GPS to go from one place to another, you have to have an idea of what you're doing; the same thing happens with this, the fundamentals will always be there, you need to know them.

[Timeproof Games @timeproofgames]

Sunset Riders
Arcade
Konami, 1991

[Chak Norris @ChakNorris93]

1) Respeto todas las opiniones, pero reconozco que algo se remueve en mi interior cuando leo o escucho a unos u otros defendiendo la gestión de sus amados líderes políticos en la riada de Valencia; lo siento, pero a mí me han fallado todos.

Fallaron mucho antes de que cayera...

[Khoa Vu @KhoaVuUmn]

Researcher: "We let the data speak for itself."

Earlier that day:

[Brian Atwood @batwood011]

My team built the leader competitor to @honey.

This "scam" story is absolutely wild to me.

In his video today, @MKBHD makes two claims about Honey's foul play:

1. Honey effectively steals commissions from their affiliate partners by being the last to drop their cookie when a user checks out.

2. Honey's value prop to retailers is dubious since they are giving customers discounts on products they were already about to buy.

So, why is this wild?

Because this is exactly how it has been since the beginning.

1/🧵

[Alison Fisk @AlisonFisk]

Is this ancient evidence of a sore loser at board games?! 😂

Around 1,000 years ago, this beautifully carved 'Tables' game set was smashed to pieces with an axe and thrown into a rubbish pit at Gloucester Castle!

Excavated in 1983, it's the world's oldest complete tables set.

On display at Gloucester Museum 📷 by me https://t.co/cxBAfREo0o

#Archaeology

[Computer History Museum @ComputerHistory]

We are saddened to share the passing of CHM Fellow Thomas Eugene Kurtz, co-creator of the BASIC programming language and Dartmouth Timesharing System. Read more about his remarkable life and contributions on our blog: https://t.co/KoI2l0EzBO

[𝐓𝐈𝐌 . 👺 Cuenta paraodiar. @Tarantinto78]

Por cosas como estas tengo internet.
Ah, mañana es lunes...

[Gemma Goldie @gemagoldie]

Es difícil describir con palabras la vergüenza y el asco que provoca esta clase política. La corrupción, la moralina, la política de pancarta, la ignorancia y la profundidad de un charco, los zascas, los comportamientos de instituto...

Qué hemos hecho para merecer esto.

[David Criado @vorpalina]

ESTO NO ES POLÍTICA

Quiero dedicar unos minutos a comentar este despropósito.

Lo haré porque es un genial ejemplo de lo que caracteriza a la "política" posmoderna en ambos lados del arco ideológico.

Creo que debemos reflexionar sobre estas cosas.

Abro hilo

[Granite Man 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @GraniteDhuine]

I remember when a computer didn't automatically connect to the internet, it used to make a screaming noise. We should have listened.

[Reid @locaperdidita]

REGLA DE ORTOGRAFÍA:
Qué, quién, cómo, cuándo, dónde y por qué, llevan tilde cuando se les pueda añadir "cojones" justo después.

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

Today we announced our plans to expand our investments in Spain, as we continue partnering to promote responsible AI across the public and private sectors.