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Would You Retire Rather Than …

Bjarne Stroustrup is the creator of C++. I read a few of his books and alternately loved what he’d done with the language and hated having to write C++ code in university and at a few jobs. I found it … Continue reading

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There’s Too Much to Learn

I remember getting started on SQL Server and trying to upskill myself in the mid-1990s. At that time, my employer was running a SQL Server 4.2 instance for a third-party application, but we wanted to rewrite our internal bespoke sales … Continue reading

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Half of All Engineers

The AI LLM boom seems to show no sign of slowing down. Each time I think we’ve reached some level of crazy use or predictions, things take another turn. I still find myself pinging back and forth between this will … Continue reading

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Acting with Confidence

Recently, I saw a graph about making decisions that showed the impact of both reversibility and consequences. Here is an example of such a graph and how one might approach decisions. If things are easily reversible or have a low … Continue reading

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