You need to switch into a product manager/QA/UI,UX mindset.
Is what is being built the right thing?
Does it work?
Is it usable?
Has it been built in an appropriate way? (Note this is not a code thing, it’s an architectural question)
Traditionally developers have outsourced these things to other people.
There’s a further thing you should be doing - if the questions above didn’t pass - why not? What went wrong in your process?
It was 6 hours where the opposing counsel tried to rattle me / get under my skin with insulting questions.
To be clear, I was only an expert witness in the lawsuit (drug + pregnant lady + birth defects). It paid extremely well, but was something I would never want to do routinely.
At the end of the deposition, the lawyer had to catch a flight to the west coast and she asked ME if I would drive her to the airport* (she said she'd pay me my hourly rate)!
At that point it was clear that the insults were just theater and "part of the job", but I took it all too personally and told her I had to get home.
* She was late for the flight and Uber wasn't a thing yet.
> At the end of the deposition, the lawyer had to catch a flight to the west coast and she asked ME.
Was the lawyer that hired you present when she made the offer to pay you? If not, I'll cynically assume she was trying to entangle you in some conflict-of-interest ploy to keep you from being called as an expert at the trial.
it's not that they don't take it personally and actually feel the pain/ disgust / fear / , it's that they hold the tenets of law as absolute and the most important part of the system. This definitely takes a particular type of person.
This is because Christianity played a major role in Western law. While the laws and courts predates Christianity, after the fall of Romans, much of it was rediscovered through Church.
Many of the courtroom customs were partly influenced by this. For example the Robes/gowns or the emphasis on "law as an absolute", higher standard that sits above personal feelings is also inspired from Christian natural law ideas (i.e rulers and judges under a higher law) even though those ideas were built on Roman foundations.
So the kind of person who can treat the rules as more important than their own feelings isn't that surprising in that tradition. It requires a certain bit of.. religiosity.
whenever some unsavory person is in the news being defended by his attorney, most of us get upset, but they say stuff like, "his attorney is just doing a good job defending his client. that's how this works."
Second time in as many days that I’ve seen someone use that quote without any apparent understanding of the topic at hand nor what they’re copy-pasting.
If such a thing were passed, it can't apply retroactively. But yes, google people would go to jail when they inevitably flout it as they are accustomed to doing. We should make this happen.
People in the US have a unique window of opportunity starting TODAY (Oct 2026) in many places with early voting. I implore everyone who is able to vote in the midterms to do so.
You will have to look at the candidates in your area and do your due diligence. Its unlikely a given candidate will be perfect, but there is generally tremendous differences between them as far as overall posture on privacy and surveillance.
Not tremendous differences, mass surveillance of the people is one of the few issues that are truly bipartisan, but there's candidates better than others.
None of them, but if one did I bet they'd get support from voters and less bribes from the tech industry. As long as politicians value the bribes more than the support the people will never get representation. We should probably pass laws that stop companies from stuffing the pockets of politicians with money, but what politician is going to support a law that takes their bribe money away?
Candidate A - will do X, Y, Z all in ways I think are the best
Candidate B - will do A, B, C which I prefer less than X, Y, Z but in the grand scheme likely impact my day to day life little.
Candidate A - also supports (or is supported by) people / movements that actively make my life harder and piss me off.
That's not cutting off my nose that's deciding I can live with a less optimal solution to some problems to avoid something that pisses me off massively from growing more powerful
Nothing yet. Unfortunately it sometimes feels like our industry has been overrun by grifters and chancers.
I’m sure this has been a gradual and long decline. Maybe it even started with the dot com boom and accelerated with crypto. With AI it seems to have got worse.
The number of - “I did/invented Jev last year”, or, “here’s a version of Jev I vibed up last night” is getting a bit ridiculous.
Especially ridiculous is how the hacker news crowd seems to be taking these at face value…
There was one the other day with a compelling demo. But when you looked closely at it, it was feeding in the options with the word “best” on the option to pick and a fine tuned model designed to recognise that word…
I thought about writing a blog post that used Jev as a jumping off point to talk about calibration metrics[1], when and why calibration is important[2], and various methods for doing post hoc recalibration[3] of poorly calibrated models. I thought it would be interesting and instructive to benchmark Jev's claims about calibration, find examples where it wasn't (relative to some data set, which shouldn't be hard to find), give an example of how its poor calibration could be exploited, and then show how it could be fixed with, say, isotonic regression. That would give practitioners a roadmap to using Jev successfully without blindly trusting it.
But I'm probably never going to write that article because, as your comment correctly points out, the tenor of the discourse isn't very healthy. Everyone is either "clowning on" Jev (as the kids say), or gulping down industrial quantities of Kool-Aid, or talking about the hype and branding instead of the math. I'll have to find a less contentious example if I want talk about calibration.
Edit: I just found something interesting: there already is a preprint case study[4] along the same lines as the one I outlined, posted just 2 days ago!
Unsurprisingly, they found that recalibration helps enormously, as you'd expect. I guess I could still talk about the Dutch book stuff if I gave a gambling/investing example, but that's pretty well-trodden territory. So now I have even less interest in writing that blog post.
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