Readit NewsLinkedIn, for example is a goldmine for social engineering, and there's no way to secure a profile from being viewed by logged-in users, even if they are unconnected.
I'm surprised more employers don't closely audit their employees profiles.
If you haven’t tried it, I can’t recommend it enough. It’s the first time it really does feel like working with a junior engineer to me.
But the other day I asked it to help add boundary logging to another legacy codebase and it produced some horrible, duplicated and redundant code. I see these huge Claude instruction files people share on social media, and I have to wonder...
Not sure if they're rationing "the smarts" or performance is highly variable.
Lead concentration in America "rapidly increased in the 1950s and then declined in the 1980s" [1]. There is a non-linear discontinuity among kids born in the mid 80s, with linear improvements through to those born in the late 2000s [2].
Arrest rates for violent crimes are highest from 15 to 29 years old (particularly 17 to 23-year olds) [3]. They're particularly low for adults after 50 years old.
We're around 40 years from the last of the high-lead children. 17 years ago is the late 2000s.
[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S10406...
[2] https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/EHP7932
[3] https://kagi.com/assistant/d2c6fdd5-73dd-4952-ae40-1f36aef1e...
Instead the Flynn Effect seems to have been strongest during the era of high lead, and it's tailing-off now.
(no affiliation, I enjoy the original and wish for it to reach as many people as possible)
I've seen this play out repeatedly. A company needs a basic CRUD system. Consultancy A brings in designers who produce “wireframes” (usually full-featured eye candy) and UX-centric “journeys.” To justify its bloated fees, the consultancy builds something super-slick using frameworks to match the designs. But once the budget runs out, the customer struggles to maintain it. Eventually, the app becomes unmanageable.
So the consultancy sends in a designer again to produce new mockups and “journeys.” The cycle repeats, this time with another framework.
I've discovered that when you start getting really cynical about the actual need for a web application - especially in B2B SaaS - you may become surprised at how far you can take the business without touching a browser.
A vast majority of the hours I've spent building web sites & applications has been devoted to administrative-style UI/UX wherein we are ultimately giving the admin a way to mutate fields in a database somewhere such that the application behaves to the customer's expectations. In many situations, it is clearly 100x faster/easier/less bullshit to send the business a template of the configuration (Excel files) and then load+merge their results directly into the same SQL tables.
The web provides one type of UI/UX. It isn't the only way for users to interact with your product or business. Email and flat files are far more flexible than any web solution.
I don’t know what that says about us. It doesn’t make me feel good though.
I think IoT was more than just hype.