10,000 employees for what? I never thought of Block to be that big.
If Elon came in, he would probably fire 80% meaning 8000. Like he did with Twitter/X and Twitter ran fine this whole time.
It's nice that the laid off employees are treated better than many other places. Everywhere I worked, laid off employees were instantly cut off from all access. I would say my goodbyes to them later through LinkedIn.
The developer is supposed to check and verify the code that an LLM creates. Ask for smaller requests in the prompts so you don't get too much code.
Unit tests are verified and run by the developer. I don't know what he means by an LLM runs all the tests and gives green. It can fake running tests. I always the tests myself, whether they were created by an LLM or not.
Microsoft is huge and produces a ton of software. The bigger the surface area and the bigger is their popularity and number of consumers, the more the breaches. It's not like there's a breach every day. They're being good a patching their software and we have Patch Tuesdays where often they often patch zero day holes.
Too risky anymore. Is it an open box item sold as new? Is it a counterfeit? Is it actually just a brick that was sent in a box to you?
Plus, Amazon controls everything, and if we get philosophical here I'd rather support individual companies and buy my products locally if possible. I can order my furnace filters from Amazon. They are a tiny bit cheaper, but it's getting increasingly difficult to go buy them locally at a store. This trend has only gotten worse and while maybe a furnace filter is something you can wait to get a replacement for, there are other items where it's just better if you can get them the same day, particularly those that you might not be entirely sure is exactly what you want/need, and/or you're choosing sizes.
But our ability to make that type of purchase is going away because people blindly buy from Amazon, which is often more expensive than buying locally now. Gone are the days that Amazon was cheaper.
It's nice that the laid off employees are treated better than many other places. Everywhere I worked, laid off employees were instantly cut off from all access. I would say my goodbyes to them later through LinkedIn.