Ted M. Young

He/Him. Technical coach. All about Making #Java Code More Testable. #TDD #Refactoring #JUnit #AssertJ #EventSourcing

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2026-07-10 23:39:03 GMT

Getting tired (again) of every conversation ending up talking about “AI”. Got testy on my stream cuz someone said I was being “sensitive” about it, but it was more that I was just plain tired of talking about it. (and trying to steer the conversation to whether “AI” can be conscious did NOT help their case)
I need to start declaring “AI” as being verboten on at least some streams.

2026-02-23 20:36:54 GMT

The argument made by some folks regarding LLMs being non-deterministic is that humans are non-deterministic as well. However, humans are non-deterministic in a particularly human way. Also, humans can (usually) explain themselves (at least in terms of why they chose some particular solution), but LLMs cannot explain their output (despite appearances), since it’s stochastic, with no underlying meaning.

2024-06-15 20:08:35 GMT

8.35 mile run this morning and NO PAIN. Hallelujah.
I've been testing out new foot cushioning to deal with apparent sesamoiditis and today was planning on running 7 miles, but felt so good I just kept running.
#Running

2024-06-02 19:26:17 GMT

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Otherwise, I recommend you treat all ideas (mob/ensemble programming, trunk-based development, TDD) as potential experiments that you can run, trying out those techniques.
You can't read your way to doing things better, instead you have to experience ways of doing things and give those experiments an _honest_ try, not "well, we tried it once and didn't like it". How many new things that improved the way you did things did you like on the first try?

2024-06-02 19:16:08 GMT

If you're asking for papers in published journals as evidence before you try out a technique or process in software development, first ask if your CURRENT way of working has such evidence and support.
#ExperimentOverEvidence