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Formerly at kCura/Relativity, security. I do application penetration testing for hire these days. Happy to chat about application security, programming, and ham radio. My conversations about agriculture are not that interesting.
Security: https://ciexinc.com/ Of particular interest are the solarwinds articles at https://ciexinc.com/blog/solarwinds/index.html Old very fun projects: https://ciex-software.com
“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs.
I am haunted by waters.”
Beware the anxiety industrial complex.
And few of us can usefully compare what we do with what amazon google Facebook or other giants do.
Good luck on flipping their script. Meanwhile I’ll be over here making book
Writing a compiler at Sycor, there were teams waiting for us to finish our development. We were successful, being about an order of magnitude faster than the effort we replaced.
And just because google cancels products doesn't suggest anything about development speed.
If I were an LLM advocate (having much fun currently with gemini), I would let the criticism roll and make book using LLMs.