Toots from 2026-07-10#
Today is a day when I need to follow my own “go for a walk” advice.#
Today is a day when I need to follow my own “go for a walk” advice.
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“The only thing Wang did was wrongly determine that all human programmers were a waste of time …#
“The only thing Wang did was wrongly determine that all human programmers were a waste of time and money and that it would be better to fire them and spend the freed-up cash on talented AI engineers who would unwittingly develop their own replacements.”
https://eshumarneedi.com/2026/07/03/zuckerberg-admits-metas-layoffs-were.html
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“What would it look like to take psychological safety as seriously as financial risk? What woul…#
“What would it look like to take psychological safety as seriously as financial risk? What would change if organisations held their cultures to the same standard of evidence they apply to their strategies? These are not rhetorical questions.”
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Study finds that women are better than men at sense making and acting accordingly in the face of …#
Study finds that women are better than men at sense making and acting accordingly in the face of structural biases.
“In a follow-up survey of 919 engineers at the company, women were more likely than men to express fear that using AI would decrease their manager’s evaluation of their ability—which turned out to be an accurate concern.”
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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mweagle/116887924322222055 Tbh, the “Yes” is higher than I was e…#
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mweagle/116887924322222055
Tbh, the “Yes” is higher than I was expecting.
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You can only (properly) course correct if the feedback loop is using the right signals. It can be…#
You can only (properly) course correct if the feedback loop is using the right signals. It can be expensive to create those signals, but it can be even more expensive to not create them.
“Measuring shipped value requires product analytics, customer usage tracking, and longer observation windows than a commit-count dashboard, all of which take more time and cross-functional coordination to build than the activity metrics most organizations already have readily available. That gap in measurement difficulty is itself a plausible explanation for why so many organizations continue to lead with activity metrics despite their known limitations.”
https://gradientflow.com/ai-coding-tools-field-guide/
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“What would the verdict on this person’s behavior be if their results dropped twenty percent …#
“What would the verdict on this person’s behavior be if their results dropped twenty percent next quarter? Not because their results are likely to drop. They probably aren’t. But because the gap between how you are judging the behavior today and how you would judge it tomorrow is the exact measure of how much coverage their performance is currently providing.”
https://mikefisher.substack.com/p/when-nothing-happens
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“This turned out to be very frustrating, because my reaction was that everyone needed to read t…#
“This turned out to be very frustrating, because my reaction was that everyone needed to read this immediately, as we were already struggling with the problems that it breaks down and shows how to solve. However it’s a book, and they take a long time to deliver even when the words are basically done, so you’ve all had to wait about 8 months to get it.”
https://adrianco.medium.com/you-all-needed-to-read-output-to-outcome-eight-months-ago-9b86c8cf6e36
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Thinking about how much time developers have spent trying, often unnecessarily, to maintain techn…#
Thinking about how much time developers have spent trying, often unnecessarily, to maintain technological optionality of all sorts. Now entire organizations are speed racing lock-in with vendors that bottleneck how the entire organization functions.