Randy Skopecek

"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places." - Ephesians 6:12

LLM's in a way work like a new generation of junior devs. We direct, oversee, and check them like a junior. A next step is LLM's acting as a mid level or senior level over the output of an LLM working as a junior. Creating a persona who oversees various quality expectations. This pushes our roles into a few categories. One is further up the chain. We need to oversee the senior level and make sure they are doing what it should be. Almost an engineering management role. That will change also further into a leadership vs management role. One complex challenge is when the solutions uses tech which it is asked to invent is not bound by the quality structures we recognize. For example if it creates a more efficient way to express digital solutions, but in doing so it is not readily recognizable by our own expectations (ascii code).

I write better code than any LLM. An LLM can write more code and write it faster than I do, but 9/10 times, any professional developer will choose my code over the LLM's code. This may change one day, but today, professional developers beat LLMs any day of the week.

@Shpigford @maybe Can even use the deep research mode to try and traverse thoughtful use cases.

I'd make sure to post stuff on other platforms to get the audience reach, including places like linkedin. I might suggest generating the content, and create a prompt that evaluates the best places to post that content based on the target user groups. For example, grok might suggest different places to post the interesting content created.

here's my current thinking on a marketing plan for @maybe. please pick it apart. most of my experience and comfort zone are around content marketing, so this basically exclusively relies on that. i'm also leaning heavily on AI for a lot of this...not because it's proven but because it's *not*...it has potential for outsize returns and i'm fine with taking that risk. 1. start a weekly financial newsletter with actionable items and interesting reads with summaries. could potentially be daily, or at least give folks that option (AI generated) 2. start a daily "quick tips" personal finance podcast. <5 minutes each episode. (AI generated) 3. post one new financial term to the maybe marketing site each day (AI generated) 4. post one new article to the maybe marketing site each day (AI generated) 5. post 1-3 tiktoks daily (AI generated) what else would you try? what am i missing? what am i not thinking about?

It seems like something where the spirit of tdd is more important than the activity. Its pure style though can follow an extreme which excludes situation in which it either doesn't understand or hampers. For example, I see many in the dev community who feel it blocks their creative process. On the other hand there are situations like Kent Beck experienced when he went to Facebook where he shared that there are some situations that can only be tested in production (loosely stated), I believe due to shear scale. My preference is that automated testing is the need. The style used is up to the dev/team. As long as it proves the system does what it should and reduces risk.

Do you think TDD is overrated, or do you use it regularly in your development?

@darianrosebrook Creates an outcome where people can't question or even recognize issues. Unable to understand. So the copy of a copy degredation perpetuates, and hypothetically AI can only trust itself to have the capability to collaborate on what reality should be, with people oblivious.

lol, everyone is about to offload their critical thinking skills to AI. This is going to be the weirdest skill gap for the next few years.

Love, Truth, & Spirit

@rossamoore Sometimes the perception of lifting up, is actually the perceiver falling. All fall short. Lift your eyes to think of heavenly things.

Q7. Why do you think David uses the imagery of gates and doors being lifted up? What might these symbolize in our spiritual lives? #HealthyFaithChat

@davidfowl Yep. I'm in the review process to decide what authentication to use for a new asp.net solution. Still seems crazy that it isn't natively solved. I know it's partially solutioned, but the advice still seems to always depend on an external focused solution.

We may have failed as an industry , authentication is *really* hard 😭

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Why would a person believe they could fully understand the apex structure of everything (God, divinity, etc.) , pass judgement on it without understanding, when at the same time barely understanding simple day to day things? There are certainly righteous and deep questions to ask, but the lack of understanding shouldn't be the premise for judgement. It should be the premise to learn and be humble in that journey. For example, in some theologies God is depicted as the literal creator of everything. So, the natural question for ones who are suffering is why did he create evil? Valid rational question. Yet before having an answer, it almost seems instinctual to jump to a conclusion that either he isn't supreme due to some form of duality or that he created it, so a person jumps ahead into judgement prior to understanding. Thus an infant judges a great grand parent.

@DevLeaderCa If it's small enough to address while right in the code, do it. If it's not, make it transparent and address with the normal prioritization flow. If it's critically systemic, prioritize a discussion to burn or churn.

Software engineers, how do you approach tackling down technical debt?

@Shpigford That's basically where something like a patreon or gumroad page comes into play. Or a subscription mailing list/blog.

just realized you have to have 5M views over 3 months to enable subscriptions...which i don't even have half of. so, out of the question for the time being anyways. 🤷‍♂️

@elonmusk Kind of like when they launched heathcare dot gov. Had a well known user load, crashed day 1. Spent unreasonable amounts of money for tiny scale tradeoff improvements due to bad design.

The Federal government computers & software are in such bad shape that they often cannot verify that payments are not fraud, waste or abuse! That’s why the government can’t pass basic audits. They often LITERALLY don’t know where your tax dollars went. It’s insane. My preferred title in the new administration is Volunteer IT Consultant. Need to fix the IT infrastructure in order to make government work. This is a grind & hardly glorious, but we can’t make government efficient & fix the deficit if the computers don’t work.

@Shpigford I like 3 colors versus 2. adds depth. what about the bottom pic, but the supply company of the top pic. (might not look good, just curious).

top or bottom?

@Shpigford @maybe That would be cool to see.

post-9-figure-acquistion of @maybe will, without a doubt, involve buying a warehouse and building a 3D printer farm.

@mijustin Definitely seems to be handling better than the previous mastodon wave.

@Shpigford Just watch it. Had family use it. Helped with weight loss, some rough symptoms. One rough enough they quit due to, at minimum the risk of liver issues.

health talk: i've been taking a tirzepatide (mounjaro) for the past 6 weeks and...it's been nothing short of phenomenal. * down 20 pounds * no more CPAP machine * more energy * better focus i exercise every day and simply eat less because i basically never feel hungry or crave *any* foods. i've struggled for over a decade to get to a healthy weight (i started at 250 and am working towards ~180-190) and tried everything under the sun. goal here is momentum. literally everything becomes easier when you're not 60 pounds overweight. the big question is "will my habits have changed enough to keep the weight off once i'm at my goal". certainly too early to say since i've still got 30-40 more pounds to go. but 6 weeks in...absolutely amazing.

@Shpigford @maybe Create an eft?

how can we make this little mini-tool for the @maybe marketing site more useful/interesting?

When you die, they forcibly keep the balance. When my dad died on about the last day of the month, they pulled the funds back out of his bank account. Just imagine, if the spouse got the rest of the money...that's basically life insurance and would have covered funeral expenses.

What is a scam that most people don't realize?

@rawsalerts @netflix Very choppy. Quality in and out. Freezing. Tried pausing to create a 10-30 second buffer, but no help. Quick, no one buy anything on amazon so the servers can stream netflix for the next hour.

@netflix Sir, we have reached DEFCON 1 on the Netflix servers. The servers are melting down. I repeat, we have reached DEFCON 1

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