Software Engineer with 6+ years of building production-ready software. Familiar in these domains: Agentic E-commerce, KYC, KYB and Youth education.
Los Angeles, CA
Joined April 2020
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Jake Morales retweeted
I used instinct to buy baby gifts for two friends. And shit happened.
One couple is having a boy, the other a girl. The agent asked if I wanted colors to lean boy/girl or stay neutral. I said “neutral is fine.” Both orders were paid and went through.
Then nothing shipped.
Guess what, each item needed a color. The agent never picked one, the merchant accepted the order anyway, and the fulfillment system couldn’t process it.
You see, @jbahrdestefano it’s not only you lol
Most of the companies out there built their flows for humans. Agents act differently, they guess, skip, or improvise. When that happens, shit happens.
If your company is accepting AI agents you must track all of their actions. Understand if those actions match against the intent of the user, preventing incorrect actions before they happen.
Easy to think about this use case by itself. But when you imagine thousands of agents every hour coming to your platform, dealing with this scale will be a challenge.
There are some cool folks working on this, if your company is facing any issues, talk to them. They're called @beltichq
Jake Morales retweeted
IC2 is the "software engineer 2" level at @sourcegraph, which is not atypical to have someone with 1-3 years of experience do.
At companies where relatively entry-level engineers are given meaningful ownership: everything moves much faster.
handbook.sourcegraph.com/dep…
Jake Morales retweeted
don't tell me how much you lost in crypto
don't tell me how web3 is the future
tell me what you're planning to do to protect my rights now that roe v. wade has been overturned
As a Junior engineer, I used to think, “Isn’t it less efficient to give me a task that would take me 2 days while a Senior eng would take 2 hours?” The truth is that the Senior eng has 10 other things to do and that’s 1 less task off their plate.
It’s actually more efficient this way, because not every task requires the high skills and high salary of a Senior eng. Also, the Senior would probably get unhappy having to do many relatively unchallenging tasks.
You probably don’t need GraphQL, kubernetes, an event-driven architecture, an extensive CI/CD pipeline, etc. These are tools that make sense in big organizations, but are usually overkill for small hobby projects.
Jake Morales retweeted
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Jake Morales retweeted
Me promising to address your feedback in a follow up PR
ALT Kathryn Hahn as Agatha/Agnes in "WandaVision" (2021), impishly winking at the camera
Haven’t heard of any YouTubers doing reviews of coding bootcamps. I bet those videos would be surprisingly popular.
Another reason (why performance is not the #1 priority) is that engineers are more expensive than servers.
Especially in the current state of cloud computing, it's easier to scale your infrastructure than to scale your engineering org.
In writing code, I used to think performance outweighed other priorities.
Now, I realize that velocity is more impactful.
Shipping new features quickly with decent code is more effective that writing the perfect code. Things can change and your code might not be there tomorrow.
TIP: Break up long code into multiple chunks with descriptive functions.
IMO, it's cleaner than using comments to organize chunks. PLUS you can use your editor to collapse each function!
