New article dropped: Being a software engineer in times of poly-crisis
5 ways to stay sane in a world in turmoil.
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New article dropped: Being a software engineer in times of poly-crisis
5 ways to stay sane in a world in turmoil.
New substack dropped:
When working with coding assistants I sometimes had the feeling that the proposals made by the coding assistant lead to a collapse of the solution space.
Now I know there is a name for it: Design fixation.
TL;DR: LLM based creativity enhancements are problematic.
https://open.substack.com/pub/robertruzitschka/p/design-fixation-with-llm-based-coding
When working with coding assistants I sometimes had the feeling that the proposals made by the coding assistant lead to a collapse of the solution space.
Now I know there is a name for it: Design fixation.
TL;DR: LLM based creativity enhancements are problematic.
https://open.substack.com/pub/robertruzitschka/p/design-fixation-with-llm-based-coding
I attended FastFlow Conference iN London this week and had a blast.
If you are interested in my wrap up, check out my latests substack post.
https://robertruzitschka.substack.com/p/fastflow-conf-2024-my-wrap-up
New post dropped.
https://open.substack.com/pub/robertruzitschka/p/the-consultancy-trap-for-enabling?r=1pbwng&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
https://open.substack.com/pub/robertruzitschka/p/the-consultancy-trap-for-enabling?r=1pbwng&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Likewise during multitasking where PFC [pre frontal cortex] neurons simultaneously participate in multiple activates circuits.
Importantly, increase cognitive load on the frontal cortex, and afterwards subjects become less prosocial - less charitable or helpful, more likely to lie."
Robert Sapolsky, „Behave“, p49 ff.
Just stumbled over this in R. Sapolsky's "Behave".
tl; dr: Managing cognitive load is important!
"Pertinent to this is the concept of „cognitive load“. Make the frontal cortex work hard - a tough working-memory task, regulating social behavior, or making numerous decisions while shopping. Immediately afterwards performance on a different frontally dependent task declines.
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João RosaI'm noticing more interest in #systemsthinking. During my interactions with customers, it pops up more frequently. 🎉
However (there is a but), I've learned that there is an essential nuance within the different systems thinking schools. And that difference goes for how the school sees the relationship between the system and the environment.
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Martin FowlerFINAL §
Abi Noda and Tim Cochran outline how to capture qualitative metrics effectively, including a sample survey to get you started. They describe how often it's best to start with qualitative metrics to find where best to apply quantitative metrics.
Paul CantrellThis essay from @jenniferplusplus is very good, and very important.
It’s good enough and important enough that I’m just going to QFT the heck out of it here on Mastodon until I annoy you into readying the whole thing.
https://jenniferplusplus.com/losing-the-imitation-game/
This essay isn’t the last word on AI in software — but what it says is the ground level for having any sort of coherent discussion about the topic that isn’t all hype and panic.
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