I asked Google Skills Boost team to give me some credits as a trainer #gcp #trainer

On what is not soft skills linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

Avoid professionally overexcited Influencers. They aren't excited because it's good, they are excited because they sell it.

Extension methods in C# were a terrible idea. All they do is making something appear a method of a class instead of a function with an argument. They make it hard to figure out where to look for the methods, especially in the modern world with 100s of Nuget packages in any app.

So much hype about LLMs writing code, but somehow nobody was even able to demonstrate an LLM reliably solving a practically important subset of tasks completely, without a human intervention.

If you see an AI consultant telling you they can generate code with AI to sell their services, remember that this is same kind of guy who promises to teach you stock trading for money but somehow does not use his knowledge to get rich.

"their ability to solve unseen tasks is perhaps far more limited than anticipated by many" news.mit.edu/2024/reasoning…

SQLite is great! Used it for in-memory fast integration tests for years.

To whoever thought that React.js was not a framework. What do you think after the introduction of the server components?

A gem from Gemini. I'd say this stuff is typical for all the LLMs I worked with.

I had many meeting recently. We really need to appreciate people remaining silent when they have nothing to say.

💲 Do you want to make a bunch of money on the incoming dip in real estate prices? linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

Do you know what's common with cancer cures and coding LLMs? They work for these who sell them.

Sometimes I write unit tests, come up with the code, then understand how exactly the code should look like, reduce it to really simple form or external libraries calls and end up deleting the unit test as trivial to avoid multiplying code.

Mars...

Extremely detailed view of Mars🤯

It's logical, but I was still impressed to see a similar sky above.

So they've formally proven what we practical users understood for long time #llm #hallucinations #ai #genai arxiv.org/abs/2401.11817