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So much of programming is: 'embrace the suck.'

That moment when I catch myself trying to hack something to make it work 'the way I think it should'... I stop and use mindfulness to look at it as is. Such a Zen practice.

Until LLMs start winning debates about monolith vs microservices against humans, humans will have jobs.

I am optimistic about AI not because I'm naive and don't understand that it comes with deep ethical and practical issues. But because society is way overdue to reconsider so many philosophical questions about what it means to be a fulfilled human, to be a healthy and productive

I spent 3 weeks and $US 300 building an AI app using mostly LlamaIndex 🦙's openai assistant lib (thank you guys!! Your docs + examples are ♥️), Python, summary and vector indices persisted locally, custom prompts, custom retrievers, multiple openai functions, Pydantic classes for

Building an AI app to use openai with a custom tool is like dealing with a schizophrenic. Not because of the expected AI hallucinations, but because each will do its thing separately, but together, or maybe not.

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I don't know if I'm glad I opened my email today, all that I got was learn that Carolyn Van Slyck is no longer with us. Carolyn... you will be missed. You have contributed SO much, and with so much joy and enthusiasm. I am glad to have known you. It was way too soon for you. 💔

So much of the strength of our community lies in our shared passion for learning and collaboration. Keeping on pushing boundaries of innovation together is one of the greatest contributions we can make! 💪🚀 #DeveloperLife

Today I could not remember `git rebase` for the life of me. Had trouble even looking up what it was. Which is funny because I am git rebasing so much of the last 5 years of my life right now... 😅

It can take longer to delete a namespace than to terminate and re-provision a cluster. In a way, I love this.

First you declare email bankrupcy. Then you declare voicemail bankruptcy. Then you declare linkedIn messages bankruptcy. Then you declare Slack bankruptcy.

Forget about a promotion: my sole career purpose at this point is to learn about weird Slack emojis so I can decipher people's reactions. pringles? pokemon-ball? There is a whole universe I have yet to enter.......

This is pretty incredible! Imagine if more experts would share their thinking/doing process with us!

'So many yamls, so little time!' --my boss

Provisioning a new cluster is the new opening a new tab.

I've read thousands of articles over the last 20 years in Tech.

Agile, Career, Distributed Systems, Engineering Management, Metrics, Programming, Testing, Types...

Below are The 22 Articles that Impacted my Career the most ➕ my main highlights from each one.

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The 3 top skills for a distributed system engineer are:

- know where all the log files are

- always read the log files

- write good log files