Toots from 2026-02-20#
It’s possible that agentic, dark-factory natural language constraint satisfaction swarms will tra…#
It’s possible that agentic, dark-factory natural language constraint satisfaction swarms will transform engineering.
Even if that comes to pass, the Rule of Silence will still hold:
“The rule of silence, also referred to as the silence is golden rule, is an important part of the Unix philosophy that states that when a program has nothing surprising, interesting or useful to say, it should say nothing.”
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“Indeed, for every piece of advice P, there are many successes and failures of startups who did…#
“Indeed, for every piece of advice P, there are many successes and failures of startups who did P, and also many successes and failures of startups that did the opposite of P. The 2x2 diagram is full. So what does that tell us about P?”
https://longform.asmartbear.com/compass/
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“But as we dug deeper, the real problem emerged: no one on the team could explain why certain d…#
“But as we dug deeper, the real problem emerged: no one on the team could explain why certain design decisions had been made or how different parts of the system were supposed to work together. The code might have been messy, but the bigger issue was that the theory of the system, their shared understanding, had fragmented or disappeared entirely.”
http://margaretstorey.com/blog/2026/02/09/cognitive-debt/
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“One of the virtues of OKRs is that they are straightforward for managers to apply. You set dir…#
“One of the virtues of OKRs is that they are straightforward for managers to apply. You set direction by specifying objectives, and you enforce accountability by monitoring key results. Applying Deming’s approach, on the other hand, requires a much greater commitment of management bandwidth. Drucker offers a control mechanism with a bounded amount of information, where Deming requires a never-ending research program, with no upper bound on the kind of information that might be relevant.”
https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/02/16/poor-deming-never-stood-a-chance/