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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06I am a cornucopia of near relevant facts.
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Excited to be speaking at KanDDDinsky in Berlin, October 14-15! AI will be a big topic, but what will be said about it? What unique perspectives will the DDD community offer? I am curious to find out. If you are too, let's meet there? Early bird ends this Friday. https://kandddinsky.com #KanDDDinsky
The mistake God made was not telling Richard Dawkins how clever he was.
“Have your Claude contact my Claude”
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And honestly a bit disappointed to see so many people who should know better apparently going "ooh nice hammer".
IDK I don't think skinny patty, fat bun sounds like an improvement to a burger.
What has been the impact of OKRs on "focus" and "flow" in your team?
What has been the impact of OKRs on "focus" and "flow" in your team?
If the industry didn't want us to grow into full-time trolls it should have been a better industry.
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@romeu They will fear that unless everyone gets on board the AI juggernaut, the organization will be disrupted by new-fangled competitors who are reaping the insane productivity benefits that they have been convinced exist.
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@romeu Believing that AI is bringing about a productivity revolution, management will see AI as an opportunity yes, but primarily as a necessity, and an existential threat.
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@romeu The worst part is that the fear of the existential threat is not necessarily entirely unfounded, on at least two grounds. Regardless of whether or not there is any real productivity boost due to AI.
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@romeu Hence the problem to be solved will be seen as one of adoption, and the obstacle to be overcome, the friction caused by recalcitrant, stubborn, backwards dinosaurs. And tokens used is an adoption metric, albeit one that is extremely vulnerable to Goodhart's law.
It's funny how when developers say "the best developers do this" they invariably just talk about themselves.
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@romeu It may all be mirages, but people make all kinds of stupid decisions based on mirages.
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@romeu Customer management is likely to have bought into the same productivity narratives as your management, and will be looking to get a radically better deal than before. Whether or not that is possible for anyone to deliver.
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@romeu If you don't use any tokens, certainly it must mean that you're part of the problem and undermining the express will of management.
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@romeu A more useful and accurate analysis may be as follows: tokens used will be seen as an adoption metric, and implicitly as a loyalty metric.
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@romeu And there will be no shortage of would-be competitors popping up claiming that they are in fact reaping those benefits and can deliver on those wishes. Whether or not that's true, both in the short and long term, doesn't matter: harm can be immediate.
Generative AI has exacerbated Brandolini's law from 10x energy to repudiate bullshit vs producing it to 100x, 1000x or more.
Beware of innocuous-looking talks that turn out to be AI talks in Groucho glasses.
Lightning talk: Why your AI generated talk abstract was rejected for NDC Oslo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhKcelV7DBo
It's funny-sad that people actually think it's about the em-dash.
Taking a cue from "modular monolith", has anyone tried "adaptive agile"?
"I wrote like a bot before the bots" is the weirdest self-owning flex.
Ick, fant denne AI-genererte plakaten for Charlie Chaplin-filmen "A Film Johnnie" på Filmoteket.
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@Daojoan@mastodon.social Thank you for writing this. You added a heart to my health bar.
It seems we still haven't quite grasped that US tech companies have invented lying.
How you will leave - an accidental poem https://einarwh.no/blog/2026/03/14/how-you-will-leave/
If we are in the singularity, why is Sam Altman still CEO of OpenAI?