Apropos of nothing: a change Rails made many years after existing, which is a positive change, is refusing to reset the database if you point it at a production environment. Culture isn’t just a firm thing. We, as an industry, have tolerated footguns far, far too long.
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Blameless Postmortems and Senior Engineer Support Culture
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Oh making something explicit that was implicit: there do exist companies who have blameless postmortem culture whose senior engineers would not take time out of their day to console a terrified newbie. And there exist ones with blameless postmortems where seniors would.
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Professional Responsibility Culture in American Workforce
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And so I told him that he could absolutely put out of his mind any worry for me, because the culture that is the professional class in America would certainly not chain responsibility in that fashion. But more importantly, he shouldn’t be worried for himself either.
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Professional Responsibility and Cultural Accountability in Hiring
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(There are, indeed, some places in the world where one is perceived to vouch for people that one hires, and their failures are thus your failures. If you have long lived in one of those cultures, worrying your mistake was a career ender for me sounds natural.)
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Healthy Engineering Culture: Incident Postmortems and Psychological Safety
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Culture is a real thing in the world, and in a healthy engineering culture, someone not involved in immediate firefighting would take that engineer aside within minutes and say “You are probably worried for your job right now. Don’t be. Let me explain incident postmortems.”
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US Banks Language Support Gap in Digital Banking
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A day after praising Chase for having spend tens of billions of dollars to be able to put an in-app banner to First Republic clients I am reminded that many U.S. banks believe languages spoken in the world are English and Other.
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Do You Need Deep AI Knowledge To Use AI Tools?
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By that thinking, somebody driving a car should not be called a driver if they don't know how the 10.000 parts in the engine works? These seems like a limting way to view the world pal.
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Heetch and Banlieue Communities Challenge Midjourney Data Bias
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The 12.5 million people living in French Banlieue together with Heetch wanted to do something about it On each postcard is a QR code to a large image dataset to help Midjourney correct its data on the Banlieue I find this to be a beautiful way of protesting and making a stand
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Midjourney Bias: Activists Mail Thousands of Postcards
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Midjourney got mail 📬
— Linus ✦ Ekenstam (@LinusEkenstam) 8 novembre 2023
Literally thousands of post cards got sent to the 11 employees of Midjourney
This is guerrilla tactics, and it might just work.
The issue is that AI, in this case Midjourney is biased… 👇
pic.twitter.com/ZyG1NS4250Midjourney got mail Literally thousands of post cards got sent to the 11 employees of Midjourney This is guerrilla tactics, and it might just work. The issue is that AI, in this case Midjourney is biased…
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Capitalism and AI: Monetizing Previously Free Access
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In part this is letting customers buy access to something that is frequently offered as a courtesy, which is a mode of capitalism that frequently discomfits at least some people.