Category: work

  • Unblocking

    Unblocking

    If only they had pinged on that email thread about how blocked they were, we could have pointed to our original response so much sooner!

  • Stand In For Real

    Stand In For Real

    Just imagine how annoyed I am every time there’s an issue in that code.

  • Documented Pattern

    Documented Pattern

    How often are we supposed to read that stuff again after we implemented everything?

  • Strongly Encouraged

    Strongly Encouraged

    So it’s not required, but here’s a report showing your team’s participation levels so you can feel bad about it quantitatively.

  • Think of the Children

    Think of the Children

    Surely the desired take-away was not to make us more sympathetic toward the threat actors, but…well…I guess if I make their job harder that’s job security?

  • When Push Comes To Shove

    When Push Comes To Shove

    There must be at least one person on the internal security team that’s really happy when a bad security incident happens if only because then they can get more folks to prioritize their hygiene efforts.

  • Two Kinds of Developers

    Two Kinds of Developers

    Feeling a little too seen in that presentation.

  • Artificial Incentives

    Artificial Incentives

    Not only is it weird that this sort of incentive in the prompt makes a difference in the quality of the results, it makes me more concerned for how upset the AIs will be in the robot apocalypse for all the rewards we humans didn’t follow through on. LLM = Large Language Model

  • If It’s a Fast Platform

    If It’s a Fast Platform

    A throwback of a 2015 post-it comic in honor of upcoming May the Fourth.

  • What’s Mine Is Yours

    What’s Mine Is Yours

    Ah, the satisfaction of being able to completely reverse someone’s argument and make it your own! UNO Reverse!