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Bindy retweeted
It was the worst mistake of my coding career.
The boss called me into the office. He said "Hillel, did you commit this code?"
It was my first job after college. I knew all the patterns, the big O notation, the UMLs.
I knew my SOLID and my clean code. I knew I wrote good software
The boss was angry. He said "take a close look at what you did".
And I saw my mistake. I had forgotten to ask for code review, which means nobody noticed these lines of code:
```
user = UserFactory.createUser();
user.add_to_group(group);
𓄂𓂝𓅓𓂋𓏤𓈓𓏌𓏤𓉐𓂋𓏏𓂻𓅓𓉔𓂋𓇳𓅱𓏤𓊃𓎀𓊃𓍞𓀁𓈓𓊃𓅜𓐍𓏲
𓀁𓈓𓉐𓂋𓂻𓉔𓄿𓇋𓏏𓇋𓂻𓅓𓊻𓅜𓐍𓏏𓏝𓈓𓐝𓋀𓏏𓏏𓈉𓄤𓆑𓂋𓏏𓏝𓆓𓂧𓏏𓈓
```
I had accidentally committed the entire Egyptian Book of the Dead!
We tried to roll it back, but it was too late. Anubis had risen from the underworld to weigh our codebase against his feather.
Our codebase was too sinful (no GDPR-compliance) and so the crocodile goddess Ammut devoured the souls of all 1,000 of our production servers.
I paid dearly for this mistake. I had to buy the devops team donuts for a whole month.
And those donuts taught me a lesson I would never forget: always get a code review before committing, even if you use SOLID and clean code.
Because the real world is not school.
In the real world, Anubis is real.
Bindy retweeted
I wrote this close to a year ago and just found it in my notes app, and I feel it more than ever so I thought id post it
I’ve been thinking for a while, the opposite of AI music maybe isnt human music. It’s making music.
The process is the magic. I think anyone whos been lucky enough to make music, or make anything, has been able to feel this in different ways since forever.
I think this is maybe why ive felt no pull whatsoever to even try it. I place so so so much of my identity in that process, and I haven’t found that to be a negative place to put it.
So I have really no desire to do less of that bit. Because that bit is kind of where I find myself most clearly
and it’s also my meditation, daily compass. Giving the process bit to a machine would be intrinsically contrary to what I love about the whole thing.
The clumsy dedicated tumbling towards an idea isss the thing we are most lucky to get to do. The hours and hours and years and years of endlessly trying to make the thing you wish could exist.
Theres lot of things im worried about AI threatening, but that will never be one.
Bindy retweeted
I feel very bad for the people who were negatively affected by the weather at LL this year. But boy, seeing all of the people saying “I won’t be returning” has me giddy asf lmaoooo like next year is gonna be so great without all the complainers. Everybody I know that went made the most of the situation and had a bunch of fun, just sayinnnn
Bindy retweeted
Gz on maxing your account @IAmAlanWalker at Ultra Live! 🎉
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Very few people pricing in a scenario where a rogue AI agent hacks into the FDA and unbans the original Four Loko
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I think there must’ve been some that exploding diarrhea bacteria in one of the 17 mango white claws I had last night
Bindy retweeted
It is important to resist the commodification of basic human needs. Food, water and healthcare cannot be subordinated to market considerations or geopolitical interests. Access to adequate food is a fundamental human right grounded in the dignity of every person. Meeting this need not only alleviates suffering but also addresses underlying causes of geopolitical instability. Indeed, food security is an essential component of global and integral security. vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/e…
