the tragedy is we are gonna have a generation of "engineers" (if we can call them engineers) who won't know how to properly use tools such as Cassandra, ScyllaDB, FoundationDB etc.
excellent db's meant for very specific use cases. abused by resume driven mercenaries - but used with precision by missionaries.
macintux 60 minutes ago [-]
Adding ACID to Cassandra sounds very interesting, will be curious to read more about that.
randallsquared 26 minutes ago [-]
I find it unsettling that every developer is asked for their opinion on LLMs and vibing, because of the dynamic it sets up with the pace of change in AI systems: if they give specifics about things that their experience shows LLMs can and cannot do, those are out of date immediately after publication, if not already at interview time, but if they are vague, it sounds like they have no experience with it, but also if they note the curve and try to adjust for those things, they come off like marketing for frontier orgs and it's still going to be laughable in six months or a year.
If you want to make the interview about that, fine -- there's lots of material and interest. If the interview isn't primarily about that, don't lay this rhetorical trap for the interviewee.
eatonphil 20 minutes ago [-]
When I find speakers for NYC Systems I do ask them not to speak about their experience with AI (at least that the talk should not be entirely about this) because of exactly this risk of being distracting and immediately out-of-date.
However, I think it can be a useful signal to understand if/how experienced developers in major software infrastructure projects are using AI today. So I plan to keep asking the question.
jbellis 3 hours ago [-]
Branimir is an engineer's engineer. Excellent choice.
eatonphil 3 hours ago [-]
His work is very cool and I was impressed by the thoroughness and thoughtfulness of his responses.
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excellent db's meant for very specific use cases. abused by resume driven mercenaries - but used with precision by missionaries.
If you want to make the interview about that, fine -- there's lots of material and interest. If the interview isn't primarily about that, don't lay this rhetorical trap for the interviewee.
However, I think it can be a useful signal to understand if/how experienced developers in major software infrastructure projects are using AI today. So I plan to keep asking the question.