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Software development methodologies compared.

Carlos Cámara-Menoyo Jun 19

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Carlos Cámara-Menoyo Jun 11

@datascience Thank you for flagging this! I didn't know about case_match(), and I can see it being very useful for most of the cases where I use case_when()!

Carlos Cámara-Menoyo Jun 11

@amapanda @twm @Geochicas sadly it won't, but I hope to share slides after. Will yours be recorded? I'd love to watch it, too!

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Tomorrow, I'll be presenting at #STSItalia "Co-designing participatory data visualizations to evaluate #OpenStreetMap’s #equity: The good, the bad and the neutral", the work I've been doing with @twm and Selene Yang, Alejandra Canclini and Silvia Ribera Alfaro from @Geochicas

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Software development methodologies compared.

@mookie

Does Jira exist for AI? Does it write its own tickets?

@mookie Does it participate in stand-up? Does it do stand-up?

@darth_hideout

Jira has AI now that helps write JQL. lol.

@mookie I’m so glad I got out when I did.

, powered by sarcasm 4d ago

Dan 🔓

@mookie @darth_hideout and it still sucks

Brandon 4d ago

@mookie @darth_hideout GROSS

slotos 4d ago

@mookie AI jokes aside, waterfall is not represented here.

@mookie A good look.

@mookie read: scrummasters are a dying breed

Ozzelot

3d ago

@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)

Nailed it.

@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!

compost_funeral 4d ago

@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

@compost_funeral

Hehehe. So true!

@compost_funeral @mookie

There’s a bit of a narrative though.

In Waterfall, you tend to build the pieces, then build up, but may not have anything functional until the end.

In Agile, you focus on building something basic & working first, then iterate, improving it but keeping it functional through your iterations.

The last one (AI) is a non-sequitur pile of unrelated nonsense.

I think that’s a big part of the tech joke.

compost_funeral 4d ago

@darth_hideout @mookie thank you for explaining the joke to someone who had 0 context!

Sepia Fan 4d ago

@darth_hideout

Waterfall & Agile 👍

I think the AI iterations are not unrelated, but are meant to show the deterioration in the process of prompting. Like:

Prompt 1: Build me a car.
-> AI produces the car lookalike.

P2: That doesn't look like a cat¹ and it should have one more wheel.
-> AI produces a cat tricycle.

P3: Damn, not a cat, btw. animals don't have wheels.
-> AI produces a duckling (not a cat) w/o wheels.

😅
@compost_funeral @mookie

¹ typo intended (via ALT hint by @raphaelmorgan)

Lukas 4d ago

@mookie i see the subtle agile critique.

@ivorytusk

Hehe. I noticed that too.

Francis Cook 4d ago

@mookie the intermediate stages of Agile are closer to AI than you’d think.

Jo 4d ago

@mookie Honestly, the duck's feet would probably be merging into one another.

Gnosyz 🖖

4d ago

@mookie Not gonna lie, that cat bike looks cool though ))

Feyter 4d ago

@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.

F4GRX SÃ©bastien 4d ago

@feyter @mookie garbage in garbage out as usual ^^

Jan Antoš 4d ago

@f4grx @feyter @mookie no worries, recently I am seeing narratives about “algorithmic management” what can go wrong.

F4GRX SÃ©bastien 4d ago

@janantos @feyter @mookie oh no

Jan Antoš 4d ago

@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.

n1k0 4d ago

@mookie careful as this may actually heavily promote AI

Janneke 4d ago

@mookie yay, cat bikes!

Oliver Schafeld 4d ago

New entry on cv:

VibeScript, strongly duck-typed

🤓😂

Oliver Schafeld 4d ago

You can have a versatile car in a year.

A golf cart in a month.

Or a duck in a day.

🤓😬🥹

Haha, yup...

@mookie ironically this image itself I believe to be “AI” generated

Thoralf Will 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇹🇼4d ago

@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 ...

Panini 4d ago

@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.

Reid

4d ago

@mookie I don't think this is accurate; AI never produced anything as cute as that cat-bike or that duck

Fabio Valentini 4d ago

@mookie ... but the cat and duck are so cute 🥺

Helical = |

⟩4d ago

@mookie note that none of these end up with trains and public transit like they should

the analogy is correct in this also

Pierric 4d ago

@mookie so this is why my new web portal keeps quacking.

@mookie https://eldritch.cafe/@zfm/114731843676064454

ΘΔ•ZFM🐊🦊🐺🐝

4d ago

ΘΔ•ZFM🐊🦊🐺:flag_genderfluid: (@zfm@eldritch.cafe)

Attached: 1 image Because fuck AI and those using it, here's my version of this meme which is about how we create things, with a car as an example. It took me 20min, I added some personnality and even added my special intererests into the mix. This is what the internet should be.

Eldritch Café

RIBBBITn3rding 4d ago

@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.

Marge吴静玫 4d ago

@mookie @BRicker I would totally drive (ride?) that cat with wheels.

Geoff Coffey 3d ago

@mookie This is accurate because in the Agile model somebody forgot to make the back window and nobody noticed until we shipped.

Brian "bex" Exelbierd 3d ago

@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

פְּרִי 1d ago

I don't think that was the point at all