Frank Schimmel

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Coder. Agilist. Nerd. Cyclist. Husband. Dad. Feminist. Teaches (agile) software development at TH Köln / University of Applied Sciences Cologne. Born at 330 ppm. Writes in English & German. he/him

"AI" users are like, "I know this is imprecise but as a convenience these transcriptions are better than nothing"

then 70 years from now we'll still be struggling to debunk these entirely hallucinated transcriptions of thousands of manuscripts that were pissed into the pool of human knowledge.

some things are worse than nothing. "signal-shaped noise" is worse than nothing.

80% of soldiers at the Battle of the Bulge never fired their weapons. 80% of your Slack workspace has never shipped anything. Marshall called it diffusion of responsibility. We seem committed to calling it "culture."

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/collaboration-is-bullshit/

"Collaboration" is bullshit.

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Westenberg.
Andreesen: “I have zero introspection”
OH: How does he know?
like I have a young child and nothing would please me more than to put their birthday into the OS and then let them go nuts on the internet doing whatever they want, but my values (no child should be allowed to access a chatbot under any circumstances, roblox should be a crime, but children should be allowed to read wikipedia pages about human anatomy if they want) are just not reflected in our social fabric because all age-related internet stuff is just a series of very frustrating moral panics
Leipziger Buchmesse 2026: Alfonso de Toro lädt den Kulturstaatsminister aus · Leipziger Zeitung

Gleich mit mehreren Aktionen direkt vor der Buchmesse hat der aktuelle Kulturstaatsminister Dr. Wolfram Weimer deutlich gemacht, dass er mit Büchern und

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RE: https://opinuendo.com/@matthew/116245169602994060

“Agile-istas, human-centric designers, governance, security, enterprise architecture - these roles exist to raise the standard of practice within an organization. And, as such, they are often about slowing things down long enough for understanding to form.”

@matthew

“1. You don't know what to build

This is the one nobody wants to talk about because it's embarrassing. Your PM hasn't talked to a real user in two months. Your requirements arrive as a Jira ticket with three sentences and a Figma link to a design that was approved by someone who's never used the product. Your engineers are making fifty micro-decisions a day about behaviour, edge cases, and error handling that nobody specified, because nobody thought about them.”

https://andrewmurphy.io/blog/if-you-thought-the-speed-of-writing-code-was-your-problem-you-have-bigger-problems

If you thought the speed of writing code was your problem - you have bigger problems | Debugging Leadership

AI coding tools are optimising the wrong thing and nobody wants to hear it. Writing code was already fast. The bottleneck is everything else: unclear requirements, review queues, terrified deploy cultures, and an org chart that needs six meetings to decide what colour the button should be.

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“Would you take a million dollars if it means someone you don’t know dies?” is a question every billionaire has answered an innumerable number of times with an emphatic yes