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Using real puppets for this is the best move for MTG since removing mana burn
Seems very similar to this! “The Ironies of Automation”, apologies if this is like already cited in your work!
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Isn’t everything GenAI produces basically just an accident/coincidence?
:O what are you all building this with?
Saw RPS mention this, looks very sick!
The cover of “Hexagonal Architecture Explained” by Alistair Cockburn and Juan Manuel Garrido de Paz.
Pretty good!
So much of American history is just impulsive and extremely stupid elites, who don't believe in consequences because they have never personally experienced them, doing highly consequential stuff because they're bored or believe it might make them richer. I guess a lot of our culture, too.
Very happy to hear! Again, loved hearing you and Dave talk!
I feel like this is a major cause of learned helplessness in software—and really anywhere else with traditional (Frederick Taylor-style) management. If you constantly patronize developers don’t be surprised when they don’t care (or just don’t know) about what they’re doing.
Screenshot of Podcast transcription with a quote from Charity saying: “This is such a great description of why I don’t trust any manager who thinks of himself as a shit umbrella. Because your Jo. Is not to protect your team and shield them from the realities of the business, it’s to connect them with the realities of the business.”
Just listened to this episode of The Engineering Room with @charity.wtf and @davefarley77.bsky.social, extremely good! This part on managers being “shit umbrellas” hit home catastrophically for me. So rare (IME) for management to treat their underlings as adults.
That team was scattered to the wind about a month later—none of the (huge!) issues I learned about have been addressed going on three years later.
Loved the article!
I was on a team doing software for internal (same company) users. For the better part of a year I didn’t feel like we were doing anything so I reached out to a user and learned more about the business in half an hour than I had up until then. Got chided for not going through the right channels 🙃
No it’s actually “two” (you gotta LOL)
A lot of this feels very compatible with Extreme Programming, TDD and that lineage. I’ve heard from a few XP veterans that given the (hypothetical) choice they’d keep their tests over their production code. Do you feel that stuff fits in here?
Yeah I think that manual exploratory testing is definitely very useful. What I'm stuck on is that if we're adding a feature and we're at the point where we know what behavior we want, why not just write the test? What's special about a manual test versus an automated test for the same thing?
I mostly agree! I’m skeptical about “manual” testing being a requirement along with “automated” testing. Are you going to manually test every existing feature when a new one is added? You have to trust existing automated tests, why not start that way?
At the moment I’m of the opinion that writing tests might be the worst use case for AI. Unless you’re ensuring that the tests fail for a useful reason of course! Tests that only pass are worse than no tests at all.
Was also pretty thrown by this… a bit of a “jumbo shrimp” scenario?
But what about shows where the episodes are good? The third season of Twin Peaks had episodes with maybe similar amounts of “nothing happening”, but it rocked! I feel like Vince Gilligan is kind of high on his own supply with this one :/
The vast majority of the industry refuses to learn how to collaborate—extremely sad to me. People are using LLMs to deal with symptoms of problems they are unaware of.
“The well is running dry, good thing we can poison it”
@ted.dev I still have to watch your last talk!
Earlier this year I read “I Heart Logs”, which wound up feeling like a prelude to later learning about Event Sourcing…
www.oreilly.com/library/view...
I’ve been on a learning journey with Event Sourcing for a bit now, seems like CQRS also could fit in here? Most of my reading has been with in the (red) DDD book, and it’s been interesting to see how nicely the concepts dovetail with others!
Rojas heading to the clubhouse to cut up and pour milk in his own cleats, celebratorily
I think this is one of the strongest arguments against most “productivity” measurements: you really want MORE software?
Screenshot of the NYT app with an ad of a kitten in a Christmas ornament with no text or product mentioned.
This is an ad I saw on the NYT a few days ago. Completely insane!!
I grew up in Columbus and after having lived in the deeper Midwest for the past decade or so I can say that you are required to have CTE to drive there
Have not heard a single person talking about this besides saying “people are talking about this”
