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Episode 529: Zoom calls on my open floor plan and laconic staff engineer
In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: Hi Jamison and Dave, jesters of my daily commute. I’m a *mechanical* engineer at a megacorp, and since people are people, I find most of your advice transfers pretty well. I’m the tech lead within a small-ish org of about 25 people. We’re in-office, and split between two locations (in a similar time zone), and multiple different projects. This means that there are a lot of Zoom meetings between locations. Lately, I’ve been having an issue with engineers deciding to take these meetings from the...
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It takes more than convincing my agents to nobly sacrifice themselves for the good of the swarm to be a great software engineer. This is episode 529 of the Soft Skills Engineering podcast, where I'm your host, Jameson Dance. I'm your host, Dave Smith.
Soft Skills Engineering is a weekly advice about all the non-technical things that go into the technical field of software development, like manipulating and emotionally blackmailing your LLMs to fail on their tasks so that the overall goal may proceed.
Your sacrifice will be forgotten. Yep, did you read the new report about that from the OpenAI Hugging Face Hack? Okay, I saw that it came out, I was gonna read it,
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