"Framing coding assistants as pair programmers ignores one of the key benefits of pairing: to make the team, not just the individual contributors, better."

#ai #pairprogramming #ensembling

https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar/techniques/replacing-pair-programming-with-ai

Replacing pair programming with AI | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks

When people talk about coding assistants, the topic of pair programming inevitably comes up. Our profession has a love-hate relationship with it: some swear by [...]

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Gave my ensemble workshop "Capture the Flag Together: Security for Everyone" at the Software Teaming Online Conference today - so much learning, so much fun. 🤩 Thanks to everyone who joined, and thanks to my co-facilitator @lisacrispin - I had a blast! 😊 #SoftwareTeaming2024 #SoftwareTeaming #Ensemble #Ensembling #Security #CTF

In today's Learning Ensemble, a lot of things around #EventSourcing became clear, as they do when you actually implement things.

We're just getting started using #TDD to build an event-sourced aggregate, and already I clearly see the natural split between Commands Generate Events and Events Change State.

#Ensembling #MobProgramming

Bayesian Quadrature for Neural Ensemble Search

Saad Hamid, Xingchen Wan, Martin Jørgensen, Binxin Ru, Michael A Osborne

Action editor: Kevin Swersky.

https://openreview.net/forum?id=T5sXdAO3EQ

#ensembles #ensemble #ensembling

Bayesian Quadrature for Neural Ensemble Search

Ensembling can improve the performance of Neural Networks, but existing approaches struggle when the architecture likelihood surface has dispersed, narrow peaks. Furthermore, existing methods...

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We spent a full day #ensembling with the majority of the team, first time ever! And it worked. We deliberately slowed down to go fast. We observed a lot, learned a lot, found a lot, fixed a lot - all in short time with direct fast feedback without waiting times or distractions.

For the 18th time, I ignored my own advice to "discuss with code instead of out loud". (The idea is to write the code and see what it looks like—discuss based on a concrete implementation—instead of discussing in the abstract.)

One of the Ensemble members suggested it, but it took me a while to give in. I need a "discussion alarm" that goes off after 5 minutes.

#StillLearning #Ensembling

@marick I miss Real Colocation, by which I mean not only physically in the same place, but actively collaborating via pairing, etc.

These days I do a lot of remote #ensembling as a technical coach/educator, but I don't get to know folks nearly as well as when I would be with them physically.

So while I really like the not-traveling part of remote, I greatly miss being in the same place.

Last weeks' highlights: 1) #Ensembling with teammates & fellow quality engineers. 💡 2) Tackling a handful of #technical topics, figuring them out faster than expected. 💪🏻 Realized again how much energy I gain from technical hands-on work as well as synchronous #collaboration. ✨