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Established AI field signal Analysis 19d ago
AI trust identity engineering AMA

An AMA on AI, Trust, and Identity in Engineering Teams

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Cat Hicks tj mahr 🤘 justingarrison.com

“"they spent five minutes on this shit and they expect me to spend my entire afternoon reviewing it?" Is it really AI or is it just sparkling organizational unfairness?! @charity.wtf and I are doing a live AMA on October 21 on tough questions of this era. Jo…”

Primary source honeycomb.io ↗
Established Culture, work & education Signal 20d ago

Cognitive helmets for the ai bicycle part the sometimes wrong bot

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Cat Hicks

“*especially* when technology and norms shift a lot, we can get the "inflexibility of expertise" lingering for a long time; social learning challenges that across skill levels! I've been seeing this as I watch folks use learning-opportunities. More on that: …”

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Gergely Orosz: A very very interesting and recent book by Dr Cat Hicks ( @grimalkina.bsky.social ): Pyschology of Software Teams She makes a good case on how most companies/teams don’t understand how devs operate…
Gergely Orosz: Makes me realize the strategy of AI labs seems to be “rockstar-driven development” (and to their credit… it seems to be working?) They hire individuals who are very very very standout ICs, in bulk …
justingarrison.com: A very very interesting and recent book by Dr Cat Hicks ( @grimalkina.bsky.social ): Pyschology of Software Teams She makes a good case on how most companies/teams don’t understand how devs operate…
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3 experts · 3 posts · 11d ago
Cat Hicks critical slop studies Doll
Cat Hicks: Funny how having an inherent respect for human behavior can protect you from this. Not that I agree with all human behavior but that I think it generally has a point to it and "the whole world is s…
Doll: smoked haters got absolutely smoked on the facts because the entire movement against AI power is built on fruit of a poisoned tree opposing the growing and dangerous power of AI (and its purveyors)…
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2 experts · 5 posts · 13d ago
Cat Hicks critical slop studies
Cat Hicks: my face right now 😱😭 I don't know why this is making me so emotional (probably because I taught myself out of library books for the for the first seventeen years of my life)
Cat Hicks: can't tell you how many psychology books I read at the library as a teenager trying to figure out the world around me. Used to finish up my terrible little minimum wage job (since I wasn't in schoo…
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2 experts · 5 posts · 20d ago
J. Nathan Matias Cat Hicks
Cat Hicks: Nice! Bonus points for using it on a hobby project haha. I continue to use this skill all the time regardless of model improvements while I've lost a lot of other, more project-focused ones. Gives …
Cat Hicks: (if you saw it has open PRs I still need to deal with, no you didn't 🙈 I only just got my finger tendons working enough to type all day again, I'll get back to it)
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