Week 3: google culture enshitification, llms simon willison ai, 37signals, semgrep

• Reflecting on 18 years at Google: Makes me think of enshitification …
• Oxide and Friends 1/15/2024 – Open Source LLMs with Simon Willison: Wonderful talk between Bryan Cantrill, Adam and Simon Willison about the recent history of LLMs. Sound fairly useful if you know what they’re good for. Hint: It’s not everything!
• Creator of HTMX Talks HTMX: Htmx chat with the creator and ThePrimeagen. Very cool. :)
• The 37signals Employee Handbook: Interesting read here. I like the breakdown of responsibility / degree of autonomy per level for various roles and that expectations are laid out up front.
  • Titles for Ops
  • Titles for Programmers
  • Titles for QA
  • Titles for Support
• The Incident Lifecycle: How a Culture of Resilience Can Help You Accomplish Your Goals: MTTx is often not a good metric to tell whether improvement is happening in an incident response process. How do you gauge coordination, collaboration and communication?
• How to introduce Semgrep to your organization: Ran semgrep against a couple of work projects and it found a few interesting things! Hrm …

I liked the simple, clean look of this page