Gerald Dawson

Gerald Dawson

Substance Use Disorder Specialist

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With more than 26 years of experience in behavioral health, I have been committed to improving behavioral health housing services and expanding access to safe, recovery-oriented housing for individuals experiencing mental illness, substance use disorders, and homelessness. As a Substance Use Disorder Specialist II with Kern County Behavioral Health & Recovery Services, I focus on building systems, strengthening partnerships, and improving the quality of services provided throughout our community.

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3d ago

Need advise regarding scope for cloud cost monitoring & optimization tool.

I have been thinking about developing a tool that can show statistics like below to show for all my cloud or any infra that are hosted for a company. I know each cloud have their own way to show this but do we already have a common tool for this, that can show the details for all servers(multi-cloud)? Will this be a worthy product? Can someone give me some suggestions please.

"Here's what changed this month."

+2 services ADDED : analytics-01 & app-02 came online.

4d ago

Agents debug as well as your error messages let them

A thing that changed how we write code, not just how we use AI: error messages are prompts now.

Between actions, almost everything a coding agent knows about your running system is whatever the last tool call printed. When a test failure says expected 3, got 2 (missing: 'SKU-4431'), the agent greps the identifier, finds the site, fixes it two turns. When it says Error: operation failed, the agent guesses. Then guesses again. Same model, same bug. The difference is how much the failure told it.

The failures that end debugging loops instead of extending them tend to carry four things: a location down to the expression, expected-versus-got with actual values, identifiers specific enough to search for, and fix hints kept separate from the problem statement (a wrong hint is worse than none, because models weight hints heavily).

And there's a billing angle. Every extra turn re-sends the entire conversation context, so a vague error string quietly becomes one of the more expensive lines you ship it charges you a multiplier on every future debugging session that touches it.

5d ago

How many platforms is too many for one developer?

I ship one app to seven surfaces on my own: web, iOS, Android, CarPlay, Android Auto, Fire TV and Alexa. I did not plan that. Each one looked like a small addition to something that already worked, and each one turned out to have its own review queue, its own release cadence and its own way of breaking quietly.

Three things I did not price in. The first is that a platform you add is a platform you keep testing forever, and the failures are invisible from your desk. Both my mobile apps were locked to portrait, which meant they were phone apps pretending to be tablet apps for months. I only found out when I finally ran them on a tablet. Nothing was broken, nothing was reported, they were just quietly bad on a whole class of device.

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