samir, actually the xkcd top hat guy5d ago
I will never understand why we looked at modern programming, saw that there is a good bit, which is programming, and a bad bit, which is code review… and decided to automate the good bit at the expense of having to do a lot more of the bad bit.
Show threadmhoye5d ago

@samir Respectfully I think that's ... maybe the inverse?

We automated the bad bit, which is "generating the text", in a way that obviates the important part, of creating a community of comprehension around the problem we're solving.

Show threadJeff Grigg

@mhoye @samir

I think that's more true of emails, status reports, and PowerPoint presentations than of software that must actually do the work of running the company. Far more obviously dangerous in the latter.

In the former, the management and sales spaces were filled with ill-thought-out nonsense already.

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