Father & Husband. Software developer partnering with AI. Automotive enthusiast. Traveler, not tourist.
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No lo acabas de entender, en Estados Unidos han votado en contra de un presidente corrupto, cuya familia se ha enriquecido durante su presidencia, sin escrúpulos, capaz de pactar con los peores enemigos de su país antes que buscar el bien de sus ciudadanos.
En España ese eres tú
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The web rewrite is working.
On a slow connection, the old X web took more than 22 seconds to show the first post on a profile. The new X web does it in 2.7 seconds. Here's how we did it, and how we're rolling it out one country at a time.
blog.x.com/en/engineering/re…
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cómo saber dónde te toca votar
politicaelectoral.com/es/esp…
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Was chatting with an experienced architect last night. She said that what used to take them 1.5 years of work (turning architectural designs into construction-ready drawings), now takes them *8 minutes* with AI.
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Finance called IT because a customer owed us $240,000 and nobody could find them.
Customer name: TEST CUSTOMER DO NOT USE.
I recognized it immediately.
I created that account two years ago to test our billing software.
It had a fake address.
A fake phone number.
The contact email was [email protected].
Apparently Sales found the account last quarter and used it to demonstrate our new quoting system.
Someone accidentally converted the demonstration quote into a real order.
That triggered an invoice.
The invoice went unpaid.
Our collections software sent seven payment reminders to [email protected].
Nobody responded.
Finance escalated the account to a debt collection agency.
The agency spent three weeks trying to locate TEST CUSTOMER DO NOT USE.
They reported the company had no registered address, no employees, and no known assets.
Finance classified the account as high-risk.
Yesterday Legal asked me for the customer's original contract.
I explained there was no customer.
They asked whether we could prove that.
I said I personally invented the company.
Legal said that wasn't sufficient documentation.
Apparently writing "DO NOT USE" in the customer name doesn't legally establish that the customer doesn't exist.
We're now paying $8,000 for an external auditor to determine whether a company I made up owes us $240,000.
Finance has asked me not to delete the account until the investigation concludes.
It's our third-largest customer this quarter.
German DZ retweeted
I’ve never met a developer who learned TDD properly and then wanted to go back. Have you?
German DZ retweeted
basically this
The White underclass is a miracle, and probably why the West has succeeded.
Thomas Frank wrote “What’s the Matter with Kansas” to explore why poor Whites don’t vote for socialist policies that would (narrowly, in the short-term) benefit them. Of course he concluded it was about racism, as he was predetermined to do by his ideology.
But I actually think he highlighted an incredibly important fact: poor White Americans, uniquely among underclasses globally, don’t vote for socialism.
The typical dynamic is rich people trying to keep what they have and poor people trying to take it. But the American lower-class White does not behave this way, because he has a deontological aversion to government interference. The collection of attitudes and beliefs described as “rugged individualism” are often assessed in terms of how they impact the individual, but I think it’s much more important to consider how they impact a nation.
(White) America has the world’s least resentful or grasping underclass. This is a treasure. They should be preserved and rewarded. Many might be net-negative fiscally in a narrow sense, but they are hugely net-positive if you consider their votes. Trump famously said “I love the poorly educated.” He was right to say this. Every nation has an elite. No other nation has such a high quality of virtuous common people.
German DZ retweeted
Software is a most malleable substance, a fungible substrate for making imagination manifest in the physical world.
While human innovation knows no bounds, there are limits to what we can and cannot do in computing.
First, there are the laws of physics. We cannot transmit information faster than the speed of light; thermodynamics constrains the design of integrated circuits; computational speed and storage density have energy considerations.
Next, algorithms. While we might have a theoretical framework for some process, turning that into an effective algorithm requires discovery; Fast Fourier Transform, the Viterbi algorithm, and transformers are all such examples.
Architecture is the next barrier. Assembling a system at scale is far more than the operation of its parts.
Organizations are where the human elements of computing begin to dominate. A simple person working alone can do remarkable things, but to build an enduring system of global reach demands a team.
Economics: many things are possible, but not all things are viable, because they cost money, and in the end, those with the money will require a return on their investment, else they will take their money elsewhere.
Finally there are the legal, ethical, and moral elements. Not everything that can be done, should be done.
It is these latter topics that are clear and present problems for @OpenAI, @AnthropicAI, and @grok.
How will this unfold?
Time will tell.
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Entre todas las imágenes y los testimonios desgarradores que hemos vuelto a ver con este accidente, lo que ayer me atravesó el cuerpo fue una metáfora que leí por aquí: la España próspera en la que nos hicimos adultos es una estrella que ya se apagó, pero cuya luz todavía nos alcanza. Seguimos andando a la luz de algo que ya no existe. Y esa sensación de avanzar por inercia se agudiza cada vez que cojo el coche y me pregunto cuándo van a arreglar los baches que han dejado estos años de lluvia, cuándo van a retirar las cañas que atascan los arroyos y los desbordan, cuándo van a limpiar unos montes que están a un verano de arder por completo. Cien días estuvimos sin trenes a Madrid porque se vino abajo un talud en Málaga. Nos reprochan que saturamos las urgencias, pero conseguir cita con el médico de cabecera lleva, de media, más de una semana. El deterioro no es una impresión: se toca con las manos, y está en todas partes.
Por eso hoy me cuesta empatizar con un ministro cuyo primer gesto es culpar a un operario y filtrar los audios. También con el discurso simplista de que el deterioro lo trajo la liberalización de la red, cuando lo que se está deteriorando es el país entero. Llevo en Twitter más tiempo que los bots, así que de sectario poco: soy uno más de los que están cansados de una gestión pública partidista, se apellide el gestor Mazón o se apellide Puente. Hace tiempo que la estrella se apagó y lo que nos queda es la luz; y la luz, si no hacemos algo entre todos, también se acaba.
German DZ retweeted
puede ser, pero también os digo:
si te quedas sin curro ahora acojona, pero hay una oportunidad enorme:
es MUY difícil estar al día de todo lo que es posible hacer con la ia.
si te quedas sin trabajo, tienes a tu disposición más tiempo para invertir.
invertir ese tiempo extra es CLAVE para adelantar a muchos que siguen atrapados en empresas de horarios matadores cuyos procesos no han evolucionado mucho o su uso de ia significa únicamente más PRs a cholón con los mismos problemas de siempre.
si te quedas sin trabajo y tienes colchón para dos o tres meses por delante mínimo, tienes que estar 10 horas al día aprendiendo a hacer todo lo que ves que no hacía tu empresa, no hacían tus compañeros.
si te quedas sin trabajo, tu trabajo es tirarte de cabeza a la piscina.
es el mejor momento para aprender.
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Otra cosa que no entiendo: ¿hemos construido un sistema de transportes tan inseguro que basta con que una persona cometa un error para que haya decenas de muertos? ¿Eso es lo que hemos de creer?
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Spain is having record breaking tax collection every year and yet there's not a single public service or infrastructure that improved in the past 20 years because all the growth goes to funding boomers pensions. That's why Gen Z is protesting in many countries
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Electricity took 40 years to pay off.
Factories swapped the steam engine for one big motor and kept the old layout.
Most companies are doing the same with AI.
We changed the layout instead: ~25x per engineer.
francesc.net/notes/a-motor-p…
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My prediction for software engineering over the next 3 to 5 years.
AI won't replace software engineers. It'll drive even greater demand for them.
A team of 5 experienced engineers using AI will outperform a team of 20 pre-AI.
Which will dramatically reduce the cost of building software.
I think we'll see Jevons paradox in action. As something becomes cheaper and more efficient to produce, demand for it can increase dramatically.
Thousands of software projects that previously weren't economically viable will become worth doing.
The winners will be companies, big and small, that behave like Google, Amazon and 3M, with a culture of experimentation, a willingness to try lots of ideas and the discipline to kill their darlings.
TL/DR: Smaller engineering teams, more innovation, more software products, and potentially more software engineers than ever.
What do you think?
