Also: serverless five years later, AI code modernization for AS/400, dependency injection history, and the AI writing witchhunt
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- Here Come The AI-Based Code Modernization Offerings
- The AI writing witchhunt is pointless. - “Just because someone on Reddit reads a sentence that feels generic, or a metaphor that lands a little flat, they (increasingly) conclude with absolute certainty that a machine wrote it, as if mediocre prose is a new invention, as if bad writing didn’t exist before November 2022.”
- Inside Capital One’s shift to a ‘serverless-first’ operating model - Checking in serverless: “Capital One estimates engineering teams save roughly 30% of the time tending infrastructure by all but eliminating tasks like rebuilding operating system images. ‘You can focus on application-specific things,’ McNamara said.” // Also, when people say they don’t like opinionated platforms, usually they’re saying “I don’t like your opinions.” They often are totally fine with someone else’s. Having your own opinions is expensive. // This overview of “serverless five years later” probably applies to “microservices” as well.
- Find common ground, not common tools - A good starting point for SDLC governance.
- Quick History on Dependency Injection - As it says.
- Half of social-science studies fail replication test in years-long project - Super-not good for all business books and anything about “culture” in IT management lore: ‘A massive seven-year project exploring 3,900 social-science papers has ended with a disturbing finding: researchers could replicate the results of only half of the studies that they tested.’ // Even worse for psychology and therapy, though.
- In Praise of Bottlenecks - Quality Assurance by slowing down: “What I am saying is that we should question the impulse to banish anything, or anyone, that creates friction in both our personal and professional lives. Instead, we could ask: What’s the purpose of this bottleneck? What do we lose when it goes away? Instead of smart and speedy, will we instead look foolish as wine explodes into our glass, overflowing and spilling all over the place?”
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- “[O]verheard someone call Diet Coke a ‘fridge cigarette’ and nothing’s been more true to me since.” - NYT
- One thing you notice in Cereal City was the “Card Shop” for those who were not online in the late 90s, ePostcards were a big thing! Even Apple had a whole tab called ‘iCards’ dedicated to sending HTML emails.
- The AI writing witchhunt is pointless. - They smell engagement in the water.
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