Toots from 2023-12-28
@ChrisShort How many ads to offset the 1 billion spent on LoT…
@ChrisShort How many ads to offset the 1 billion spent on LoTR and Citadel?
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Hopefully helpful HOP visualization distilled from Todd Conklin’s <https://www.amazon.com/Princip…
Hopefully helpful HOP visualization distilled from Todd Conklin’s https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Human-Performance-Contemporary-Updateof/dp/B07PWYCZLS that I had only posted to the Other Site.
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Posted to https://mweagle.io/posts/principlesofhop/ with PDF and SVG versions. I’m not sure what the issue is with the SVG output not including referenced PNGs.
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If GenAI is as powerful, reliable, and transformative as trumpeted in this Pollyannish survey (�…
If GenAI is as powerful, reliable, and transformative as trumpeted in this Pollyannish survey (🤨), then there would be no need to produce those communication artifacts that create shared context between people.
Tests - why LLM test cases? Just tell GenAI: “Fix this bug and enforce correctness”. Correctness is the objective, not writing tests.
I have so many questions.
“Exploring the Intersection of Generative AI and Software Development.” arXiv [Cs.SE]. arXiv. http://arxiv.org/abs/2312.14262.
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@healsdata Same & I’ve had similar experiences. Change for …
@healsdata Same & I’ve had similar experiences. Change for the sake of change is a nonstarter.
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“Software engineering managers (or any senior technical leaders) have many responsibilities: th…
“Software engineering managers (or any senior technical leaders) have many responsibilities: the care and feeding of the team, delivering on business outcomes, and keeping the product/system/application up and running and in good order. Each of these areas can benefit from a systematic approach.”
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3631176
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“Decisions are about saying “no” even more than saying “yes.” Without articulating the …
“Decisions are about saying “no” even more than saying “yes.” Without articulating the “no’s,” the team is less focused, the decisions are less clear, and stakeholders wonder whether you’re even aware of the problems that you chose not to tackle.”
https://longform.asmartbear.com/strategic-planning/
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“If you want to understand why your systems perform the way they do, it’s necessary to know h…
“If you want to understand why your systems perform the way they do, it’s necessary to know how expertise is created and distributed amongst the people in your organization. The single best way to do this is to invest in incident analysis.”
https://paulosman.me/2021/10/02/sociotechnical-lenses-into-software-systems/
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“The important thing is that you have a working, integrated system, and as you work on it, you …
“The important thing is that you have a working, integrated system, and as you work on it, you keep it working. And you flesh it out over time.”
https://www.rubick.com/steel-threads/
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“Unfortunately, there’s a problem with this model: complex systems don’t fail the way that …
“Unfortunately, there’s a problem with this model: complex systems don’t fail the way that chains do. In a complex system, there are an enormous number of couplings between the different components.”
https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2023/12/23/on-chains-and-complex-systems/
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“If you’ve led technology teams for any period of time, you’ve had this conversation. (or, …
“If you’ve led technology teams for any period of time, you’ve had this conversation. (or, in rare cases, missed important opportunities to have this conversation)”
https://kellanem.com/notes/new-tech
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“After several research projects and across 25+ in-depth sessions with teams tasked with engine…
“After several research projects and across 25+ in-depth sessions with teams tasked with engineering transformation, as a psychologist for software teams, I think we’re fundamentally failing to prepare engineering managers to handle the sociocognitive work of triage.”
https://www.drcathicks.com/post/engineering-managers-do-triage-work-do-we-know-this
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“In 2023, discovery, exploration, and invention are just vibes you rent, by investing in a futu…
“In 2023, discovery, exploration, and invention are just vibes you rent, by investing in a future-costumed effort to ignore all of what’s already been learned and pretend “making a car that works” (or tunnels, or spaceships, or social media) is a new frontier.”
https://defector.com/youre-supposed-to-be-glad-your-tesla-is-a-brittle-heap-of-junk