• Death by process

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  An incident occurs on your team. During the post-mortem, the root cause is corrected, and one of the key takeaways is to add an additional process to prevent it from happening again. The team implements this. A few months later, management notices that work has slowed down, yet the rate of incidents has stayed about the same. What is going on?

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• AI helps you do more with less, but not more with more

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  AI has allowed many engineers, myself included, to execute faster and deliver more within our current domains than ever before. While this brings immense value to the profession, there is a hidden cost. When we use AI to branch into projects or tasks we don’t fully understand, it is easy to lose our situational awareness.

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• Data software engineering hiring is difficult

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  It is hard to find and hire good candidates in the data software engineering space.

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• Creating this blog cost $0.10

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  LLMs are not just good, they are surprisingly cheap and easy to use.

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