Prod
(Ireland, UK, slang, sometimes, derogatory, religious slur) A Protestant, (as termed by Roman Catholics), that is in the context of their religious beliefs, or those who have been born in the Protesta
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The model is the junior engineer. I'm still on call. Wrote about how I let an LLM write SQL against my prod db: schema in the prompt, a validator that decides what actually runs, and the one gap I haven't closed. se…
He triggers the "prod the lolcow" instincts of the worst netizens, complicated by his "no concede, only fight" hardwiring. Very unpleasant dynamic to see play out.
If an agent can read, draft diffs, run tests, and explain changes—but can’t quietly merge or touch prod—you still get most of the upside.
🚀Northrop Grumman has been selected to establish a manufacturing base in Australia for solid-fuel rocket engines. militarnyi.com/en/news/prod...
Developers changing code on the fly in prod because they lack the proper testing environment and tools. Scary guano!
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(Ireland, UK, slang, sometimes, derogatory, religious slur) A Protestant, (as termed by Roman Catholics), that is in the context of their religious beliefs, or those who have been born in the Protestant tradition, or sometimes those implied to be Protestant by their political ideology of Irish unionism or Ulster loyalism.
"I don't want my daughter marrying a dirty Prod," he said.
“The model is the junior engineer. I'm still on call. Wrote about how I let an LLM write SQL against my prod db: schema in the prompt, a validator that decides what actually runs, and the one gap I haven't closed. segbedji.com/letting-an-l...”
— Bluesky· May 2026“He triggers the "prod the lolcow" instincts of the worst netizens, complicated by his "no concede, only fight" hardwiring. Very unpleasant dynamic to see play out.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“If an agent can read, draft diffs, run tests, and explain changes—but can’t quietly merge or touch prod—you still get most of the upside.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“🚀Northrop Grumman has been selected to establish a manufacturing base in Australia for solid-fuel rocket engines. militarnyi.com/en/news/prod...”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Developers changing code on the fly in prod because they lack the proper testing environment and tools. Scary guano!”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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