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I recently restarted a process in production when I had intended to do so in staging. Luckily no harm was done as the restart was no more disruptive than the automated deployments which happens multiple times of days.

The voting system amplifies the problem. In the American system it takes far less than 50% of the voters to take control of a party. And a voter dissatisfied with the options offered by the two largest parties have to either vote for the lesser of two evils or have no influence at all.

With better voting systems there is an opportunity for more political parties. The latest election in Denmark is an example of that with 12 different political parties represented in the parliament. Moreover the Danish system also has a tendency to make members in the center of the political spectrum have more influence than an equivalent number of votes on the outer wings. A center party with only 7.8% of the seats played a major role in the government negotiations much to the annoyance of a far right party with 8.9% of the seats.

There are many other countries with better voting systems than america. For example there are countries with two round presidential elections where the top two candidates from the first round go to a second round. This means voters are free to vote for their preferred candidate in the first round without risk of having no influence. In such a system there is a very real possibility that enough voters dissatisfied with the two mainstream options can vote for a third candidate and displace one of the mainstream candidates in the second round.

In an employee satisfaction survey one of the questions was whether the company is using the right amount of AI. I answered no and added a comment saying that AI is being pushed in situations where it hurts productivity and quality.

Later the results were presented to us. The question still reads whether we are using the right amount of AI. But the presenter said “we asked if we are using enough AI”.

So if you raise a concern about AI being pushed too hard there is a possibility they will try to fix it with more AI.

That requirement is certainly enough to keep me away from that site. It’s a step in the wrong direction.