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All I know is that Agile means a lot more meetings and a lot more meetings means I'm a lot less productive.

That's amazing.

I love that there is a real competition happening. We're going to see some insane innovations.

I figured something like this is what drove Hashicorp's licensing decision, but thought it would be Amazon.

I mean, I understood this was satire immediately, but I was definitely still looking for the tutorial at the end of the article.

"Retiring services isn’t something we do at AWS. It’s quite rare."

I read this while I was taking a break from working on an epic to migrate our stuff off of OpsWorks before it gets shut down in May.

You have to add a /s or something. There are too many people on the Internet who are broken like this.

Well yes, that's obviously true. There are a lot of companies out there that don't treat their employees like cattle who are eager to be driven from field to field.

Impressively callous reply, though. Top notch heartlessness.

What about the employees that have a requirement to work remotely due to a disability?

Waiting for more labs to weigh in. Every scientist whose name we know was called an idiot by a room full of experts first.

I mean, a good test is to go to go to their website in another browser tab and click around. You're over-complicating this.

I've recently begun working within the Agile methodology for the first time and I'm not a big fan of it as a DevOps engineer at least. Going from roughly ~1 meeting per week to several meetings per day, spread across my morning, absolutely torpedoes my productivity.

Beyond that, there never seems to be anyone in these stand-ups that is capable of helping me because I'm doing stuff that nobody else in the company knows how to do. I'm learning as I go. So the meetings just tend to be me droning monotonously into the ether for no reason. If they did a quiz at the end of these things, everybody would fail it.

Also, engineers tend to have social anxiety. That's why a lot of us became engineers in the first place. It fills me with a small sense of dread knowing I have to speak publicly, every single day, and that creeping dread basically ruins my productivity in the hour of my morning before the meetings start, too.

I'm a lifelong nerd. I don't need motivation to make things. I don't need a 2 week learning period at the end of an iteration or whatever. I learn all of the time because I like to learn. I like to tinker. I like to automate things and make them more efficient. I deliver value just by getting the toys I want to play with.

Maybe Agile makes sense for lazy developers, but that's not what I am. I'm a force multiplier. You know how the special operations guys in the military get to have beards and hats and sunglasses? That's because they're not neophyte grunts trying to fake insanity to get out. They are highly skilled and they get shit done, so they get left alone to do their thing.

Agile feels like it sacrifices its special forces to make NCOs and ensigns look better. Sorry for all of these military references. I have no affiliation. I watched Band of Brothers a few times. It's just the closest thing to a human loss factory that I can think of.

AI wrote it, my man.

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