Tho Telekommunisten was always plainly constructivist, the project will be more productivist, or even counterproductivist, given it's counterantidisintermediationist designs.

Taken to it's logical conclusion, prompt engineering will recreate BDD.

"Not every change is an improvement but certainly every improvement is a change." -- Eliyahu Goldratt. It's unlikely you'l get better by staying the same, but you should know how you will measure the outcome of your change.

Edwin Land, the inventor of the Polaroid camera, said it best when he described his definition of a mistake: “A mistake is a future benefit, the full value of which is yet to be realized.” -- Joeseph Sugarman. If you're not making mistakes, you're learning too slowly.

Over on linkedin, Simon Wardley makes a crucial point, for better or worse, gen AI will greatly increase the magnitude of code, encoding millions of decisions into defacto architectures that will create an avalanche of consequences down the road.

Using DuckDuckGo or Brave doesn't stop google from tracking you because of google analytics and youtube embeds.

Small batch sizes result in less WIP, faster lead times, faster detection of errors, and less rework. -- DevOps Handbook. This remains true even with agent generate code, and a tendency to to do too much when using agents is one the reasons for poor quality.

AI is improving so rapidly, soon creating technical debt will not even require developers anymore.

EFF warns that AI system that writes police reports is designed to avoid audits.

Meetings put focus on both the work and the people. The coaches at Leadership Strategies describe meeting outcomes in terms of the “Hand, Head, and Heart.” - Elise Keith. meetings are not just to share information and make decisions, they also must build a shared vision and bond.

WTF is composable anyway?. Composable is just a buzz word if you don't break it down into it's components, Modeling, Automation, Delegation, and Observability. I do this workshop only every few weeks and keep the class very small so it can be interactive.

Typos Before: You should have some kind of grammer tool.Typos Now: Thank you for being authentic and not ai.

AI makes it easier for people to impersonate celebrities to con lonely people.

we typically define our technology value stream as the process required to convert a business hypothesis into a technology-enabled service - DevOps Handbook. you are testing a theory, if all your tests work out, they're the same theory, you're not learning as much as you could.

"If you want to go on an ego trip, to show how smart you are, give the answers. But if what you want is action to be taken, then you must refrain from giving the answers." - Eliyahu Goldratt. Create initiative by radiating intent and building consensus, not by giving directions.

Your AI coding assistant is not a compiler.

"A job description must do more than prescribe motions, do this, do that, this way, that way. It must tell what the work will be used for, how this work contributes to the aim of the system." - W. Edwards Deming. Make sure your teams understand the mission, not just the tasks.

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YouTube is trying to combat AI slop.