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Comment · 7 months ago
I think from a proper systemic view that joke is more correct than not. AI is just the frontend of people ...
Comment · 7 months ago
That may not be a bad comparison. A F1 car is really fast, really specialized car, that is also extremely fragile. A Lada may not be too fast but its incredibly versatile and robust even after decades of use. And has more luggage space
Comment · 7 months ago
> I saw tables with more than a thousand columns.

I used to work in a company that had all the tags in their SCADA system feed into SQL tables. They had multiple tables (as in tens of tables), because they ran out of columns ...

Comment · 8 months ago
you mean agile dot ai?
Comment · 8 months ago
> "but real scrum has never been tried" types.

Im one of these people. I do think for real that what most companies do is basically project management that wears the skin of scrum, and in most organizations beyond a certain size having that type of agile work and flexibility is basically impossible.

Comment · 8 months ago
Except sometimes you get absolutely banger dreams.
Comment · 8 months ago
Friedman is also not someone anyone should be taking seriously in the year of our lord '26
Comment · 9 months ago
Also rigor is slow. Looks like a waste of time.

What are you optimizing all that code for, it works doesnt it? Dont let perfect be the enemy of good. If it works 80% thats enough, just push it. What is technical debt?

Comment · 9 months ago
> If a data science team modeled something incorrectly in their simulation, who's gonna catch it? Usually nobody. At least not until it's too late.

Back in my data scientist days I used to push for testing and verification of models. Got told off for reducing the teams speed. If the model works well enough to get money in, and the managers that make the final calls do not understand the implications of being wrong, this would be the majority of cases.

Comment · 9 months ago
Yes.
Comment · 9 months ago
> No, they are equals.

IDK, where I am its always been that managers specifically have power over ICs

Comment · 9 months ago
> even when they resist understanding

Agreed. You may know so many things, but ultimately its useless if the other party does not care about wanting to understand them. And I have no clue what the right way is, besides letting people and their models fail and then being there with an answer ...

Comment · 9 months ago
Generally yes. The more power one holds in an organization the more safe they are from automation.
Comment · 9 months ago
> the real cause of nobody being able to afford anything is rent extractors.

Employers/Owners are essentially rent extractors to workers. Its even worse IMO. They buy some of your time to do stuff for them. They also lend you the tools and materials to do your job. And they own whatever you produce. If you are selling your one hour for 100 bucks to produce ten linen coats worth 100 bucks each, you get a 100, everything else - minus costs of materials and your 100 the employer gets to keep as free rent.

Comment · 9 months ago
> You have to be the one who creates things to do.

Problem is it gets fucking exhausting to organize and reach out after a while. Especially with DnD.

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