Senior engineering leader. ex-AWS, built Payment Cryptography from scratch. Interested in distributed systems, security, fintech, and the intersection of correctness and scale.
I once had a person that was hired by my company and then started bragging about finding a way to add stored value to gift cards. Then come to find out they were under investigation by the FBI. This was a government contractor mind you, so the biggest security guard I’ve ever seen showed up to escort them out.
My personal experience, agentic coding produces brittle code. Often it works but it violates every opinionated fiber of coding style in me as a developer, even when tuned to my style. It does not give me code that I want to maintain long term. But did I mention it often works. If you treat it like code, written by a petulant toddler, that needs review and refactoring then it works well. It’s also pretty good at code reviewing your code, finding subtle mistakes.
Did anyone think to ask Google what’s happening? This can be easily reproduced still and n Google Translate. Strongly suggest that some SDE years ago thought this was an unlikely case that someone would ask to translate the word yes from Spanish to English. Boom fun Easter egg.
Poison Pill! Why on earth would the best failure mode be to cease operating? Just don’t accept the new plan being ingested and tell the person uploading that their plan was rejected. Impact one flight not thousands!
I wrote an open source scorn sequencing engine which is really at the center of an LMS and my co-worker wrote a really nice looking content editor. But we were working as government contractors in the ADL office and it got squashed because there was legal concern that the government would be seen as competing with private industry.