Something isn't adding up. Companies are having massive layoffs, yet there are a huge number of job listings that never get filled. Meanwhile, qualified people are applying to these jobs in droves, but few are getting hired. Why?

There's one likely explanation that fits: many of these jobs don't exist yet. The term for …

AI/ML is only half of the future. The other half is, well, old fashioned programming. What everyone is going to eventually figure out is that for many problems, AI can provide only half-baked solutions that are better solved by explicit rules—in other words, loops and conditionals. If you're serious about using AI …

A concerning pattern is playing out with AI in enterprise: people rush to bolt AI onto existing tools and flawed workflows, and the result is faster, messier failure.

AI is not the process, and it can't always overcome a bad one. AI amplifies what you give it. If the underlying process is broken or undefined, …

To be clear, in my experience, most managers are not going to fall into the category of "bad boss." In fact, in my entire career, I have had only one truly awful manager. For some reason, bad managers don't seem to stick around long in the tech world, which is good news for us! So the chances of having a bad …

Sorting and Filtering Data

One of the most common tasks performed on the command line is sorting data. This can be done using the sort command, which is part of the GNU Core Utilities package. Sorting is useful when you need to arrange a list of items in a specific order, such as alphabetically or numerically.

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Have you ever searched for something on Google, and as you read through the search results thought, "Wow, these words look like they were written by a human!" Of course not, because you knew that the results Google was giving you -- webpages, videos, news articles -- were created by humans. Google was …