Jason Gorman

Screenshot of an X post by Aaron Rupar quoting a statement from Ansari accusing the Department of Justice of withholding FBI witness interviews involving allegations against Donald Trump related to Epstein and asking why Pam Bondi has not testified about the Epstein Files Transparency Act. Below is a video still of a woman labeled “Ms. Ansari” speaking at a hearing table with a microphone.

Five GOP members joined Democrats to subpoena Pam Bondi to testify before the Committee.

Could we iterate the apples in ways that are equivalent in, say, complexity, but all-new apples the models won't have seen before?

One thing that came up tonight a couple of times is the friction in testing LLMs in a "apples with apples" way across versions of models. The risk is that your apples found their way into the training data, and the model ends up overfitted to them in the next iteration.

By jingo, that was a lot of Zoom today!

Wealthy Dubai residents race back to UAE to avoid tax bills Some risk spending too few days in the emirate and too many in the UK

Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

I see the sentiment being expressed widely these days, but not accompanied by any increase in interest in actually doing anything about it :-(

Bottom line is that our culture has always been an evolving product of migration, and our economy's never worked without it.

Migration is part of what makes this country great.

We're not an island of strangers - we're an island of neighbours.

The Green Party will always support fair & managed migration.

You have to try it a whole bunch of times, on a range of similar problems, against a testable definition of "success", and look at the *distribution* of the results for statistically significant trends.

Otherwise, we risk throwing a 7 and concluding that these must be "the good dice".

The challenge with probabilistic systems is that they can't be tested repeatably.

That one data point - "I tried X and it worked" - is pretty meaningless.

"the most advanced AI". They're talking about autocomplete.

It's quite surprising, 3+ years after ChatGPT launched, how many software developers still don't realise that interactions with LLMs are stateless.

The LLM doesn't "read" your system prompts once "at the beginning of the session". To an LLM, every interaction is "the beginning of the session".

"Ah, but your clients are in a bubble, Jason"

Yes. The bubble of software organisations who give a shit.

What's your bubble?

When they said it's transformative for coding, they lied.

They're all going to The Hague

This time they've gone *too* far!

A New DORA Performance Level – Catastrophically Bad DORA (the DevOps Research Association) has 4 broad levels for dev team performance: Elite, High, Medium, and Low. A Low-Performing team deploys less than once a month, has lead times for changes &g…

According to data collected by DORA (DevOps Research & Assessment), some teams are "Elite" - shipping many times a day, while others are "Low-performing" - shipping < once a month

But some teams aren't shipping *at all*. I propose a new level just for them

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Finger in the air, I suspect.

"the fastest and most successful adopters are abandoning caring about the structure of the code it produces or even what language it uses"

Looking forward to seeing that data

"This study which methodically tested the same phenomenon across multiple models on many problems and carefully measured and analysed the results and found statistically significant trends doesn't chime with the feeling I get, therefore it's a bad study."

Yes, TV news. Please tell us more about people whose holiday plans have been affected.

That's the main tragedy.

An 8-bit gaming graphic of a flaming circle made from four arrows. Inside the circle is the text "the game over spiral".

I hope everyone is ready for DevOps Live tomorrow.

I'll see you at 2:30 pm in the DevOps Keynote Theatre to talk about the GAME OVER spiral during my talk "What if DevOps was really simple?'

#DevOps #DevOpsLive

Several people asked for a new picture of Molly, aka the Thing of Evil. Here she is.

Labours attitudes towards water companies is one of the starkest examples of how they'll do anything to protect the status quo.

The case for water nationalisation is so bloody obvious to everyone - yet they'll do anything they can to keep the failed privatisation experiment.

Complexity, coupling & cohesion, clarity (you can roughly measure how many different ways code can be interpreted using LLMs, for example), duplication, redundancy, adherence to coding standards (by linting, perhaps). Folks keep telling me code reviews can be automated now :-)

What's the measured impact on design quality of doing this?

I'm sure many people might be surprised to hear that this isn't a law already

That's easily fixed :-)

Yeah, About Your CLAUDE.md file… After 3 years experimenting with and learning about Large Language Models, I’ve long suspected that project-level or global context files are a waste of time. I’ve been advocating small…

As users of "AI" tools that produce human-like, plausible-looking outputs, we may be more prone to confirmation bias.

Beware: AI-assisted coding's replete with "best practices" that - when we actually measure the end results - turn out to be bad practices

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"For example, we now have a rule that makes it easy to request a conversation about a wrong architecture or user outcome *after* it has shipped."

We're saying the quiet part out loud now, are we?