Maybe I’m just silly, but one suggestion – I thought the PG stood for Postgres at first – some sort of cute name might be in order so people don’t get the impression that they have to install this on Postgres + pgduck or something.
SQL/PGQ (Property Graph Queries) is part of the SQL standard as of 2023. I found this project months ago _because_ they included PGQ in their name, I was searching for PGQ implementations.
I don’t understand why the graph – relational crossover ecosystem doesn’t get more love like this – sometimes I want to explore a different paradigm on my data without installing a completely separate database and performing a migration.
This story is so common, and while this post was a very eloquent write up, and it’d be easy to pile on “all those silly non-engineers”, it’s unhelpful for all involved.
In keeping with the metaphor, how could Engineer, Mario, or Luigi have negotiated better trade offs? I mean, working for a baker as the founder or at least on the board is huge. But what else?
Someone who’s had success critique my draft here:: I want to respect expertise without “caving”.
“I understand the goal of the organization is 10% of the oven market, and I believe in that goal, but if we focus only on pizza for a while, we hit 6%, and gain at least 25% NPS. The garlic bread, calzone, and sweet pastry markets would be easy to tackle, getting us closer to cake. Alternatively, we start with cake. If we deliver Pepepizza a cake solution that absolutely thrills them, would that buy us credibility and time?”
This is the right take IMO, so thanks for a balanced comment.
I would add a nuance from OPs perspective sorta: a close friend of mine works in construction, and often comments on how projects can be different. On some, everyone in the entire building supply chain can be really inspired to work on a really interesting project because of either its usefulness or its craftsmanship (the 2 of which are related), and on some, everyone’s, just trying to finish the project is cheaply quickly as possible.
It’s not that the latter hasn’t existed in tech, but it does appear that there is a way to use LLMs to do more of the latter. It’s not “the end of a craft”, but without a breakthrough (and something to check the profit incentive) it’s also not a path to utopia (like other comments seem to be implying)
Craftsmanship doesn’t die, it evolves, but the space in between can be a bit exhausting as markets fail to understand the difference at first.
I hope I'm not too late and this doesn't get buried - anyone interested should check out https://www.findhelp.org/ ! I work here and we are super hiring for engineers :)
Edit - ah, he means the search engine should be a non-profit. Not what I thought he meant.
Can also be a cover for bullshit artists. Some people take "fake it until you make it" as some kind of design for life, especially those with narcissistic tendencies.
I personally like to see a touch of humility in people I deal with. That, too, can be faked, but at least it leaves you with some idea about whether a job is going to get done.
> Some people take "fake it until you make it" as some kind of design for life, especially those with narcissistic tendencies.
The worst part is that it actually works - at least on scale.
Bullshit artists thrive on the "they look like they know what they're doing" vibe, because for most people, that level of confidence can only be achieved through hard work and dedication to the craft, so we assume that the person that confident must be very hardworking and very dedicated, or simply knows something that we don't.
It's a perceptional shortcut that we use because it works for us most of the time. In an unknown room full of unknown people, we instinctively search for someone who doesn't look lost.
Colleges giving new graduates even 10% of this context would completely change the game. I went in with a ton of passion but absolutely 0 guidance, ended up 6 figures in debt with a degree I only kinda use today.
LillipadsDB?