Top Tech Voices Podcast S2 E1: Mental Health & Technology

Jarvis , open my last project I saved on my bathroom wall

This one: chess on the ceiling ?

I guess it beats trying to take a shower with a VR headset on.

I didn't get it, explain the joke

Whatever we call it, whether gut feeling or experience, the situation plays an important part of any decision.  I’ve worked in development labs and production.  The lab engineers may be able to take a lot longer to debug a problem than the production engineer basically because when the production line is shut down, workers are sitting around and you have $500K shipments on hold waiting for a solution.  It can draw some attention with your boss’s boss.  Call your short-term solution gut feeling, but knowing your product and the build/test process(es) helps.  Also tracking key production stats can catch something sooner and maybe that is the AI factor.  NOTE:  Every implemented gut feeling should be followed up with a more detailed analysis, whether manually or with AI.

Are you a researcher?

 It is great to get into the Top Tech Voice Podcast S2 again. And I get through the podcast just now since I have just found this podcast channel in bilibili.

It is amazing this podcast have spread in such wide media array beside Youtube etc. and cover mass as much as possible.

The convesional media has evolved from traditional paper printings, to new digital media like youtube, intagram, X. But new Z-generation change to new media like Ticktok, snap, and off course bilibili as well.

The best part of bilibili is user interactive, every one can pop up comments and emojis at will. Sometimes the comments are offer more insights and independent opinions  out of the original video clips.

So, I think further podcast for Top Tech Voice Podcast shall

- cover more audience in multi-media-array, and more languages regions,

- put more emphasis on new Z-generation,

- add more user interactivities to UI and other form alike.

Episode 1 is now available to listen on Spotify and all future episodes will be made available on YouTube and Spotify at the same time.

I liked the part where AI hallucination was discussed. How AI can provide a lot of factual statements and hide few incorrect statements that will take experts and hours to uncover it. In my organization there was a plan to migrate from Azure Devops to Github enterprise because Github offers AI reviewer which could help in reducing the reviewing time. The obvious question at that time is what if during review, the AI suggested a different way to fix the solution citing reasons that sounds extremely possible but actually has no chance of happening. The idea is on hold now. If this is the case with AI reviewing, on other side people are using LLM to look for bugs and "improvements" in open-source projects and raising pull requests to fix that issue. Problem is most of the PR are spam, some are of no significance, and some claim to fix an issue that out rightly doesn't even exists.
Developer behind the CURL has closed bug bounty program because of these low-quality pull requests.
"We saw an explosion in AI slop reports combined with a lower quality even in the reports that were not obvious slop – presumably because they too were actually misled by AI but with that fact just hidden better."
You can read more about this here.
With Openclaw, even the PR can be made automatically by AI agents with total having total control over the interaction. One of such agents created a PR in matplotlib and it was rejected because it is a spam. The AI then decided to make a post of how people are gate keeping open-source projects. It also started to make fun of him in the same blog. Here is where it gets interesting, Ara Tecnica which release posts about technical development made a post about this. The entire post was created by AI which decided to include about the maintainer which was entirely fabricated by itself. After the maintainer issued blog posts of his own explaining what was going on, Ars Tecnica retracted that article and issued a public apology.
Github has started listening to the maintainers and has decided to add even more control to the pull requests. There is a lengthy discussion going on to tackle the low-quality contributions. All in all, this has been an interesting month for the developers, and the podcast has been posted at the right time.

What you do? , I really like these type of job where observation is a crucial part too. As a student finding correct ambition is like the definition of Variable we read in every Coding dictionary

R&D Engineer at a power sector company. My work requires more development activities than research though.