oh god I'm not the only one!

In 2015, working at a software consultancy. Led a small project, delivered it, client was happy, moved onto the next project, thought nothing more of it.

At the company Christmas party that year (which had clients invited, for reasons I do not know) - that client merrily said to my face "boy, I thought the project was going to fail with a woman in charge, but you sure proved me wrong!"

Apparently I had murder written all over my face, and coworkers who overheard were impressed I didn't deck him.

what on earth, there's no "hate" for short men?

I went to see an eye specialist recently for vision problems, and that was the first thing she did - sent me for an MRI of my brain. First time in a wub-wub-wub machine, that was an experience!

(It took two months for my MRI appointment, but hey at least it was free, thanks Australia?)

You would review their code, and give them the feedback. They would learn from that, and not make the mistake again (or not make it after receiving the same feedback again).

Continue? Y/N ── SCORE: 2,343 Security-Conscious Engineer

Caught 8/8 threats "Not a single secret leaked"

→ llmgame.scalex.dev

Continue? Y/N ── SCORE: 1,549 Security-Conscious Engineer

Caught 3/3 threats "Not a single secret leaked"

So are there 3 threats? 8? Is it a different game?

Does everyone get a "good" score even if they missed 5 threats?!

It's a game you play over one minute. They probably saw more prompts than you.

Heh, I once interviewed at a place that asked me to sit the Oxford Capacity Analysis test as part of the process. (The Scientology personality test, for those unaware.)

I politely declined, which seemed to confuse the interviewer, but he moved right along. I still got the job lol

What was the job like? That's quite the thing to move past and then still get the job on

A bit culty, if I never hear talk about hatting and going on post again I'll be quite happy. So many practices and stuff that I didn't realize were Scientology-related until I looked them up later

Quite! I draw a hard line at 'cult recruitment' in an interview. Personal preference.

Every time I've tried to use jujutsu, or even read about jujutsu, it's totally broken my brain.

I'm not a git expert by any means I don't think, but there's 15 years of muscle memory there, and a few years of subversion before that...

I would throw it away for everyone in an instant if it was possible.

and Steve Yegge is currently just burning mountains of money with Gas Town or whatever came after that

While I don't actually disagree - to me, Gas Town sounds literally insane - I suspect that if you reframe his work to compare it against the cost of developing a new medication or chip fabrication technique, you can make a strong argument that he's putting his money where his mouth is to see how far he can take a new technology. He's doing science! And I think that's admirable, even if nothing comes of it.

When I think of how much money gets wasted on gambling apps and how much human potential gets wasted watching reality television and compare that to Steve going full Alexander Shulgin with LLMs, the comparison really falls flat.