Dave Zolotusky

Curious and slightly unsettling experience with chatGPT during a novel review processl (it has been a long time since the publication of my last fiction book!). I uploaded 4 chapters using the premium version and requested summaries of the main characters' names, surnames, and descriptions. One character intentionally had no surname, but chatGPT provided one. After pointing out the error, chatGPT apologized, acknowledged the mistake, and offered a different surname. When I inquired about the repeated incorrect surnames, chatGPT explained its reasoning: Certainly! The reason for the earlier errors with the characters' surnames is a mix of factors: Initial confusion in searching the document: When I tried to retrieve the names from the original document, the search didn’t extract the correct information, leading me to create plausible but incorrect surnames instead of relying on the actual text. Autogenerated names: In cases where I couldn’t locate the correct surname, I defaulted to generating surnames that seemed fitting for the context or the character’s first name. This was a mistake, as I should have used the accurate details from the text. Imprecise searches: My early attempts at searching the document didn’t yield the right results, so I made assumptions instead of double-checking the content properly. #chatGPT #AI

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Carta's data is ....off? Coastal Recruiting communicates with hundreds of engineers weekly, primarily in New York and San Francisco. We consistently encounter software engineers with 2-6 years of experience requesting base salaries between $180,000 and $250,000, plus equity. Perhaps "misleading" is a better term, as I frequently hear founders saying, "But Carta indicates we can hire this engineer for $140,000 to $160,000." We then observe Seed/Series A companies paying $200,000 to $300,000 for top talent. The disconnect may stem from the fact that companies raising funds from Sequoia, Khosla, Founders Fund, Lightspeed, a16z, KP, Greylock, Index, NEA, Lux, and others are not seeking what 95% of the companies providing data to Carta are seeking. These companies are looking for the top 0.01% of engineers. I say all this while also acknowledging my appreciation for Carta. I value the data and charts it provides, but it's important to remember: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."

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Appreciate seeing that App Store review time has roughly halved since the summer (down to about 4hrs compared to 9hrs). I can't help but wonder why starting a review for Testflight external beta is still at the 8hr mark (though I certainly understand that those should be lower priority compared to production builds). I +1'd the Google Play IN_REVIEW status issue and recommend others do the same! On the green goblin [Android] side of things, I've personally experienced a lot of variance lately, resulting in some unexpectedly [days long] reviews. I also see that Google recommends waiting for production reviews while alpha reviews are in-progress, citing longer review times. My experience has been the opposite, where the synchronous reviews results in a MUCH longer review cycle. The numbers point to improvement, but there's still further progress to be made, both for timing and consistency of policy enforcement.

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Meta uses monorepo to manage its code. I was skeptical about this approach when I joined the company a few years ago. How could it work with such a massive codebase? But I was wrong. I found working in Meta's monorepo to be a pleasure.  If you want to learn what working in Meta's monorepo is like (and why we are not using git), check out my latest post. https://lnkd.in/guaDRris #softwareengineering #productivity

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/*********Mentorship**************/ I was watching today Andy Jassy's video (https://lnkd.in/gRV2mGPr) on career advice. He shared one of the very important thing on Mentor's. Mentor's overall objective is too help you grow. They let you do things which you even think you can not do and then give support if needed. They give honest feedback on areas of growth.

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