France's longest land border is the one it shares with Brazil.

How does the LLM get all the required knowledge about the domain and the product to ask relevant questions?

Give it access to the codebase and a text file with all relevant business knowledge.

Man ... if there were a text file with "all relevant business knowledge" in any job I've ever worked, it would have been revolutionary.

I'd say 25% of my work-hours are just going around to stakeholders and getting them to say what some of their unstated assumptions and requirements are.

That's a factor four or five ir so, so still less than an order of magnitude.

> I honestly don’t know what the PO and TL gains with this absurd obscenity

There are marketing campaigns that need to be set up, users informed, manuals written. Sales people want to sell the new feature. People thinking about road maps need to know how many new features to can fit in a quarter.

Development isn't the only thing that exists.

Another reason is that figuring out what the software to be written should actually do, and how it should work, is work that is part of the project and the time it will take needs to be estimated.

As well as the actual development work that will result, which isn't known yet at the time of estimation.

It could have used a good "Perl: the Good Parts" book.

With a team where everybody wrote it in a similar style, Perl did perfectly well. Mod_perl was fast. I liked Perl.

Then Django came out, and then Numpy, and Perl lost. But Python is still so incredibly slow....

Check out "Perl Best Practices" by Damien Conway, and the more recent "Modern Perl" by Chromatic. Both can be had as paperbacks, and I think both are also available free on online.

I'll go further. Ignore the Perl specific bits and Conway's "Perl Best Practices" is one of the best general programming books ever written.

It has so many great pieces of advice that apply to any programming task, everything from naming variables, to testing, error handling, code organization, documentation, etc, etc. Ultimately, for timeless advice on programming as a profession the language is immaterial.

Mostly - from here - python is so incredibly slow to write. Who has this kind of time?

Slow to write, slow to run and throws whitespace errors. Surprised it made it so far.

Sounds exactly like academia itself, and is probably a selling point if you’re a business.

The Norway wealth fund is a co owner of Microsoft, like everyone with shares. Google says they own 1.35%, worth 50 billion.

If they want Microsoft not to provide "general compute" to the Israeli army then they can try to get a majority of Microsft owners to go along with it.

I think that's not the same as pressure on Microsoft from the outside.

It’s so black and white, it’s a question of signals and eventually consequences. Even if the vote doesn’t pass, that’s not the primary objective here I think.

It's amazing in person if you have four people who can play somewhat decent chess. The level of constant banter is something else.

Came here to say the same. It’s the last sentence of their deep post suggests playing in person.

I can’t imagine playing Bughouse online. It is the most fun you’ll have playing chess and it’s all about the interpersonal experiences.

In the simpler times of the mid-90’s, on Autumn Sunday’s my college flatmates and I would drink beer, watch football, and play Bughouse. High fives, smack talking, wild sacrifice tactics… soooo much fun!

I do admire the commenter that took it to hardcore levels too — a different path.

Bughouse came before Crazyhouse.

In Shogi the pieces are flat, and you can turn them over to change color. That doesn't work with chess pieces.

Bughouse does work, and has been played at chess clubs for fun for a very long time.

When Internet chess came along people realized that a single board version was now an option.

It may well be Shogi inspired but then it must have happened a long time ago.

> I can't wait until I can send a directed thought to someone else.

Oh no, we're going to have ads inserted into our thoughts, aren't we?