Chelsea Troy
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website:http://www.chelseatroy.com
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what they talk about
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where they keep going back
- RailsConf2 editions2020–2021
all 6 in the filters
on a stage with
never shared a talk
who talks about the same things
- Einar W. Høst30 talks
- Kerri Miller19 talks
- Dana Scheider4 talks
- Michael Feathers23 talks
- Betsy Haibel14 talks
- Tom Cools16 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| "I ran the code for you and I think the problem is X" ... | DDD Europe 2025 | 2025-06-02 |
A large language model outputs I ran the code for you while no execution happens because there is no compiler or VM generated, only token prediction. The model… | ||
| The model can give a sequence of outputs that resemble an answer .. | DDD Europe 2025 | 2025-06-02 |
Claims that modern generative models take a sequence of inputs and produce a sequence of outputs that resemble an answer while often lacking grounding, shows… | ||
| Evaluating Patterns in Gen AI Outputs | DDD Europe 2025 | 2025-06-02 |
Shows why LLMs fail on tiny factual tasks (the strawberry gate counting bug) and why context matters: trained on Common Crawl-like text, transformers use… | ||
| What can we expect of LLMs as software engineers? | JSHeroes 2025 | 2025-05-29 |
Shows the strawberry gate error to illustrate context failures, explains base model vs fine‑tuning and supporting models (compilers, calculators, RAG), cites… | ||
| Keynote: Fault Tolerant Machine Learning Operations | Code BEAM America 2025 | 2025-03-06 |
Defines three maturity levels (0–2) and shows moving from ad hoc local models to automated retraining, architecture search and orchestration using DAGs and… | ||
| What Counts as a Programming Language? | YOW! 2021 | 2021-11-30 |
Argues that what counts as a programming language depends on assumed context and shows concrete work: implements compilers and interpreters, refactors a lexer… | ||
| Workshop: Tackling Technical Debt: An Analytical Approach | RubyConf 2021 | 2021-11-08 |
Defines technical debt as maintenance load caused by context loss and gives a concrete metric (percent of developer time) plus examples where that number… | ||
| Debugging: Techniques for Uncertain Times | RailsConf 2021 | 2021-04-12 |
Claim: debugging skills that reduce uncertainty also improve coping with rapid life changes. Concrete techniques include switching from progress mode to… | ||
| Debugging: Techniques for Uncertain Times | RailsConf 2020 CE | 2020-05-04 |
Claim: debugging skills transfer to rapid life changes by teaching how to investigate uncertainty. Emphasize acknowledging lack of understanding, switching… | ||
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