AI slop – so what?
Lately there are plenty of articles discussing AI slop – that would be AI generated digital content of low (or no) quality, meaningless, pointless, junk. I don’t get it – what’s the fuzz about? People were trying to get their…
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Skill amplifiers – LLMs used right
Will start in a weird way – LLMs are very poor when it comes to basic logic and reasoning. Why? Because they were never designed to be good at logic. They were designed to excel in NLP (Natural Language Processing)…
Private equity fun – you got acquired
Private equity companies buy other businesses, make them “healthy” or “better” and then sell them for profit or do the IPO. What’s it the goal that every private equity has? Make profit for itself and its investors. That is the…
The AGI bullshit
Since the release of ChatGPT (Nov 2022) the amount of bullshit generated about AI is still growing. One can find literally any type of crap out there and (of course) the most popular ones are repeated endlessly. One can’t help…
Gratefully fake?
There are two interesting patterns that seem to thrive @ LinkedIn. Pattern I – one gets laid-off, fired, managed out but one feels super grateful, happy, cheery. Pattern II – one finds a new job and immediately feels super grateful,…
Job security?
If you want job security – run a funeral home, become a forensic pathologist. Especially the latter. Somehow people won’t stop dying. Sure, those do not scale up but it is job security you are after, right? In IT the…
The cause of software bugs
What is a software bug? A bug is an issue with software that makes it unusable, unstable and/or leads to faulty (undesired) results while using it. That’s of course within reason and specific context. What’s the cause? There exists one…
Progress not perfection
Hammer this in your head – progress not perfection. Forget about perfection and leave it for those few but memorable moments when things were just ‘perfect’. Focus on progress and do so with zeal. One small step is always better…
Security testing
Here’s where things get a bit murky and kinky. There are two types of Security testing: Security testing Security testing, more than not, overlaps with any other testing sans UI The goal of a security test is to discover if…
UI and UX testing
UI Testing UI testing is a subset of Functional testing. It focuses on verifying and validating that the UI is rendered as expected, on different platforms, different browsers and/or devices. It ensures that the UI elements are present and do…