Dylan BeattieJan 2, 2023

Thought Leaders: "Programming will be obsolete within 5 years. All business software will be generated by AIs"

Actual Businesses: "actually we're mainly still on-premise, running on Windows Server 2003 and VBScript ASP, but our two-year plan to migrate everything into a cloud kicked off in 2015 and we're making steady progress."

Show threadThe BellmanJan 2, 2023
@dylanbeattie “also, our entire financial process relies on this excel spreadsheet that John built back before Y2K but nobody is sure how it works”
Show threadTrevor - The Vitruvian MeepleJan 2, 2023
@thebellman @dylanbeattie "Where's John?"
"Oh, he left, I think it was about 5 years ago. I don't know, I wasn't here yet"
"Did he train anyone?"
"Uh... I think her name's Cheryl."
"Ok, where's Cheryl?"
"She was downsized... 2 years ago."
"Downsized?"
"Yeah. I heard it was brutal. No advance notice or anything."
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Show threadDylan Beattie

@vitruvianmeeple @thebellman

TIRED: using ChatGPT to generate bespoke software from scratch

WIRED: training ML models to analyse business processes modelled in 47-sheet Excel files and explain how the hell they actually work.

Jan 2, 2023 at 5:54pmWeb
Show threadTrevor - The Vitruvian MeepleJan 2, 2023
@dylanbeattie @thebellman