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This post is awesome eavan.blog/posts/implem...
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Three tweets from Aaron Boodman (@aboodman) dated 16 Aug 2021, reading: 1. Chrome was delivered without any sprints at all. The team came in at 9 and left at 5 (figuratively, people actually kept their own ~8h schedules) every workday for a couple years like clockwork. No drama. No broken marriages, no broken families. 2. It was one of the most formative experiences of my career. 3. I hear you asking, dear reader, how this miracle came to pass. How did chrome-team manage to deliver high quality software without death marches? Funny you ask... Turns out that software projects actually benefit strongly from having senior technical leadership deeply involved.
Seems like an appropriate time to re-share the @aaronboodman.com thread.
"Chrome was delivered without any sprints at all"
xcancel.com/aboodman/sta...
Insightful write-up by @clickhouse.com clickhouse.com/blog/llm-obs...
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There is some confusion about whether or not we understand LLMs. The answer is yes and no, but mostly no. It's a complicated enough question that it seemed like it needed an article.
www.verysane.ai/p/do-we-unde...
Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
> Thereβs [nothing] pulling anyone to the middle. The only thing that draws engineers to look at the middle of their system is pure blinding rage. Given enough exposure to the neglected center someone will eventually make time to fix the things that bother them.
jackdanger.com/infrastructu...
How security, reliability, and design teams can get other teams to do work for them.
I share some things I learned from watching a world class security team hack a huge organization to get security work done, but in a way everyone appreciated.
I wrote up a post about how we hugely improved the write performance for Bluesky's timelines/following feed.
If you want to learn more about how we did it, check it out.
Some nuggets in there about embracing imperfection in some parts of a system to scale better.
jazco.dev/2025/02/19/i...
The average AI product experience is bad right now, and itβs because teams havenβt figured it out how to build with these tools yet.
Building a prototype is 10% of the effort. The rest of the journey is uncharted waters and can be a real struggle.
blog.lawrencejones.dev/ai-mvp/
