*Gecko Gallery

Have you been to the Geck Gallery in Brooklyn? Same building as the Bone Museum.

"Stats and dashboards" rings true to me. The "process people" co-opted agile, and were more in love with perfecting the process (as measured by red and green lights and various burn up/burndown charts) rather than building great products.

The other question I have is, does AI-generated code have a "6 fingers" problem? It's easy enough to see the errors generated images (6 fingers! Missing limbs!), but a bit harder to find them in thousands of lines of code. Puts enormous weight on your test automation.

And in my experience, most coders don't have these skills. Though more dangerous is when the execs take on those roles. (And justify it by yelling "founder mode".)

My sense is that AI lowered the bar to producing code that generally seems to work, but it doesn't replace the need to architects and product managers. Yet those roles seem to be getting sidelined. So it's easy to build *something*, but is it the right thing to build, and is it built the right way?

This has become so common. It must be stopped. bsky.app/profile/barr...

Big Bootay! Tay! Tay!

Still processing someone born in January 1971 as being 55.

And by yesterday, I meant today (Wednesday)... I always do the puzz the night before (an advantage on living in Pacific time).

For what it's worth, on Wednesdays I assess the length of the down answers. If they are mostly 3-5 letters, I give it a go downs-only. On rare occasions I successfully complete it. But yeah, not a typical Wednesday practice, and yesterday didn't meet by criteria to even try!

I assume Google has (had?) metrics to evaluate the quality of their search results. Now they put the AI Overview above the actual search results, and it is just wrong on a regular basis (25% of the time?). They've completely devalued what used to be a good product.

I tried several spellings assuming I'd just spelled it incorrectly on my first attempt. Alas, no. Google tells me it's a British word.

I had a small chuckle at one of today's pangrams though.

Grrrrr

Get the ball to Jimmy, win it on the free throw line.

Brutal officiating. Embarrassing.

Definitely not, just notable that they are already capturing that data.

They're using Statsig evidently.