Software development methodologies compared.

#software #development #agile #waterfall #ai #developer

@mookie read: scrummasters are a dying breed
@gary_alderson @mookie Why were they a breed at all, we shall never know. (I never had a dedicated scrummaster anywhere, but the entire agile methodology appears to me as some kind of attempt to turn software development into a religion)
@mookie heads up there's a typo in the alt text and it calls the cat motorcycle a car motorcycle lol

@raphaelmorgan

LOL! Oops! Silly auto correct in iOS always thinking it knows more than me. Fixed. Thank you for the heads up!

@mookie as someone who knows nothing about tech, this just looks like an undeserved compliment towards AI, the horrible city-ruining car becomes a lovely duck
@mookie i see the subtle agile critique.
@mookie the intermediate stages of Agile are closer to AI than you’d think.
@mookie Honestly, the duck's feet would probably be merging into one another.
@mookie Not gonna lie, that cat bike looks cool though ))

@mookie the thing is: With waterfall you may end up with the car as planned but than you realize, you needed a truck instead.

And with agile you actually end up with a car that has teeny tiny skateboard wheels and a wooden frame because that's how you started and replacing it would be to expensive.

So AI is the only approach that is consistent all the way. You start with crap, the in-between is crap and the end result is crap.

@feyter @mookie garbage in garbage out as usual ^^
@f4grx @feyter @mookie no worries, recently I am seeing narratives about “algorithmic management” what can go wrong.
@f4grx @feyter @mookie the most strange part was, when they say AI is not taking sides and makes perfect decisions, well that depends on what are the values. And I highly doubt AI can and ever will be able to weight between different values case by case. And I would like to see sensible human being willing to be managed by AI. Next scary thing is AI crap in HR departments now being renamed to PeopleOps.

New entry on cv:

VibeScript, strongly duck-typed

🤓😂

@mookie ironically this image itself I believe to be “AI” generated
@mookie I think this is a little exaggerated.
The duck should have at least some wheels.
I don't know how many and where they are, though ...
@mookie
And when you touch the duck car alarms blare. It honks instead of quake and there are wheels and gears inside it instead of organs. Also it goes the speed of pebble by rotating its legs like they are wheels.
@mookie I don't think this is accurate; AI never produced anything as cute as that cat-bike or that duck
@mookie ... but the cat and duck are so cute 🥺
@mookie note that none of these end up with trains and public transit like they should

the analogy is correct in this also
@mookie so this is why my new web portal keeps quacking.
@mookie "Agile" as a Software Development Methodology is what you get when you put a baby MBA hooked on energy drinks in charge of a software project.
@mookie these humorous pictures never challenged their underlying assumption. Most customers and users don’t actually know what they want and are unable to articulate it well at any point in the development process this picture assumes the customer needs a car to solve their problem and that they need that specific kind of a car by the end of the development process. CC:@lproven

@bexelbie @mookie @lproven

I don't think that was the point at all

@peribotsarah @mookie @lproven sure, it wasn’t their point. But since this other idea doesn’t validate their priors they ignore it. Of the people I’ve met who preach the point this comic tries to make, they don’t actually want waterfall, instead they’re upset about something the other method do (meetings, hallucinations, whatever). But praising waterfall implies a desire for waterfall in all its glory. Also these aren’t equals to compare.