"Nobody cares if they're bad SQL"

Laid off your DBAs I see.

I find that odd given that another division in Amazon is no longer using AI coding tools at all. Its a big company so who knows if this is company wide or just in this one division. I expect its just in one division though.

"you can’t make a great soundtrack for a mediocre movie."

The Hackers soundtrack made more money than the actual movie. There was a sequel to the soundtrack but not the movie and unless you are involved in development, almost nobody knows the movie but you still hear songs from the soundtracks at nightclubs today.

I predict a golden age for security is coming soon to those organizations. Dude, we can all literally see your code crumbling in our web browsers.

For people like me it’s very much already here

okay dude, or maybe you're out of the loop

That's a you problem. If you feel this way, its the universe saying that you aren't very good at writing software. Good engineers don't have this problem.

PS We have way too many levels of abstraction now, that doesn't mean the right answer is to add another. Even worse unlike the others, LLMs aren't deterministic.

My experience is exactly the opposite. The TT ends up being the last engineer standing a lot of the time. The people who want to have better refactoring and more maintainable code are usually the ones who move on. The TT often stays in the same place for 25 years. Often correcting mistakes they themselves made in the past.

I knew one engineer who came in every Sunday night to process missed orders from an e-com system they wrote. They were unable to actually fix the problems with their code, so they just fixed the problems by hand. Every week...for years on end. Management thought he was a star who worked hard. The devs knew he was the worst engineer they have ever worked with. He still works at that same company 25 years later.

The correlation between what management thinks and reality can be pretty large at times.

The profile you describe is not a Tactical Tornado to me.

A tornado is something big and temporary.

Someone who makes a mess but stays to fix it cannot be described as a tornado.

I worked with actual TT and with people fitting the profile of your guy.

To me they are quite different and have a different impact on the teams they work "with".

I would say your guy is more a Sisyphus.

The ones I met where thought as hard working by management, because they actually were.

If your guy works extra on Sunday for free, they're working hard in my books.

They were not thought as stars, but they were more liked than average 9-5ers. "I know he's not great, but at least he's compensating by working harder".

In the end, if they make something not great, but the work expected from what they do is actually achieved, that's more than most.

And I honestly prefer the Sisyphus to the TT. At least I know they'll own what they do. Not drop it on everyone else to go chase their next "miracle".

> If your guy works extra on Sunday for free, they're working hard in my books.

Working hard on the wrong thing: endlessly manually processing things the software should be taking care of. Investing that time in fixing the code would be better. Working hard only matters when the effort is well spent.

Fix your last sentence while there’s still time, an otherwise super strong comment.

(Thank you.)

Perhaps don't hire people who act as foreign adversaries for government work? Is that really such an absurd proposition?

You can’t assume someone is foreign based on their name.

In fact I’d guess they’re not, since they’ve been employed on government projects since a young age.

>who act as foreign adversaries

This does not mean they are from another country.

I don't think they were spies. They have ethnic names, but it sounds like they are just good ol' red-blooded Yankee crooks.

I can understand wanting to be perceived as being on “the right team” but that comment is so silly that it undermines credibility. To put it otherwise, could you imagine a scenario where I had a labor, arbitrage opportunity that involved a higher paying job in Shanghai, China and that I had lived there for a few years to do that. Let’s also say that I was found guilty of some similar crime. Would you call me a good old fashioned red-blooded Chinese crook?

It’s OK to acknowledge that economic migrants are a thing, and that they likely have only transactional interest in where they live, such as a Bengali construction worker in Dubai, for example. That’s just part and parcel of labor mobility. For better or worse, shareholders, or middleman representing shareholders, have decided this sort of thing is a really good idea in the US, and now around half the population falls in that bucket. It’s a free country, and freedom means being free to choose short term interests. That also means you’re free to support such policies because they are good for Blue-team redistricting so we can provide free healthcare to all 8 billion people in the world somehow.

But please, nobody becomes a Yankee by the mere fact of standing on the ground. If you want that pejorative title, then you need to earn it.

It was a silly comment. It was meant to be.

As opposed to...

What is this even supposed to mean? “I was joking, and it’s your fault for taking it seriously?”

Pretty much, yeah.

> Perhaps don't hire people who act as foreign adversaries for government work?

Hilarious in the context of this administration.

Uhh... The guy in charge of the whole thing does things a foreign adversary would do. Has for years and he's back for round two. He even tried to overthrow the government once.

He wasn’t hired, he was elected.

That's a bit pedantic. There's really not much of a difference there.

He can be fired too, but the current shitheads in charge would never do that.

> There's really not much of a difference there.

Between being hired and being elected? There’s a massive difference and it’s not pedantic at all to point out the ridiculousness of a statement like “the president was hired”.

It's a common colloquialism to say "America hired him to do a job" referring to the POTUS.

From a simple query...

"It is common to use the phrase "hired" when discussing the U.S. Presidency in a metaphorical or political context, particularly to emphasize that the President is a public servant working for the citizens. While the official process is "electing," the "hired" analogy is frequently used to highlight accountability, public service, and temporary, contractual-like tenure"

Just go look it up, and educate yourself.

But this pointless internet interaction is over.

Now consider that the density of an atomic nucleus is oddly similar to the density of a black hole. And this was the path Einstein was following. Too bad you need computers to study it because of all the differential equations.

"downplays that Einstein was pivotal in emerging the field in the first place."

Indeed, its a pretty easy case to make the Einstein has more to do with QM as it currently exists than Bohr does. The major interesting work on QM after the 1960s or so is entirely dependent upon Einstein's work on QM and locality. The entire narrative in fact comes from Bohr's hissy fit after Einstein pointed out that QM is non-local and that seems very wrong.

It should be pointed out that the math of spinning black holes which Einstein needed to reconcile GR and QM wasn't discovered/invented until the 1980s. And we still haven't really checked to see if he was on to something. A big part of this is that the young have the energy to spread their ideas. The old often don't. That has as much to do with these things as being right or "on to something".