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It's 1998, you make a website in the copy of frontpage express that came with your computer, it's just like Word and it's very easy, you figure out how to upload it to the couple megs of web space that your ISP gives you (the instructions are on their website), you visit your site in your browser and everything's fine and the site's readable and everything looks the way it should
🦝 "Wow, if it's this easy in 1998, I bet it'll be even easier in 2026" you think to yourself for some reason
Let me translate the United Nations article regarding AI for you which "calls for urgent action to ensure that the technology develops within planetary limits".
Urgent = act now.
Planetary limits = you cannot exceed them.
I am going to #socrates26 in August! Sadly had to skip the last two years, but I look forward to spending time with some of the kindest and most considerate people in Software again.
Who is currently doing or experimenting with agent-assisted #MobProgramming?
We’re trying it out in-person this week and the social dynamics feel very similar to traditional mob programming.
Maybe one difference is that the resistance seems even stronger. I suspect that’s because LLMs have raised expectations around individual productivity, making it even harder to justify slowing down and working as a group.
Has anyone else observed this?
I suspect most people outside of the UK won't have heard about the post office scandal, but it seems highly relevant to learn about now (given *waves* this):
For over 15 years, the software post offices in the UK had to use contained severe bugs, particular in accounting, that everyone at Fujitsu/horizon and the post blissfully ignored. Over 900 (!!!) postmasters were sentenced for alleged theft and fraud, some went to jail, some committed suicide. All because the software was shit and everyone who could do something about it didn't care and swept it under the rug.
Everything, including how it was uncovered, about this seems bizarre and Kafkaesque, but we better prepare for it to happen more often.
#TeamTopologies is still one of my favorite books, mainly because it gave me a useful vocabulary for things I’ve seen.
It’s just sad that quite a few people seem to remember only the part about team structures and ignore the rest😅. Also TT imo needs to be seen as a piece of a much much bigger puzzle.