A lot of people in tpot are credulous morons, to be fair. Ideally, journalists would be neither of those things. (We don't live in an ideal world…)
CULTURE
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Post-Elon X Platform Sees Surge in Obvious Bot Activity
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Why do I see *far* more obvious bots in my replies now than I did in the pre-Elon days? I don't get it.
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Tech Industry HR Practices and Employee Referral Accountability Standards
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Yep, but you’d be absolutely dumbstruck if you met someone in the U.S. or Canadian tech industry who was formally punished by the company for introducing the company to someone who was later e.g. fired, right.
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Rails Safety Culture: Industry Must Stop Tolerating Dangerous Practices
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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.