10,000 hours of effort do not happen in one day. Your token consumption is not an adequate metric of how long it takes for you to accomplish your work. There are things in life that are designed and meant to take a long time to get there and figure them out. After drawing for 10ish years, I’ve finally found the pencil I like the most to work with – the right weight, feel, and lead…
We’re being reconditioned right now to not think because it takes too long. I spent 3 hours this past weekend thinking about how to approach some problems, what would and would not work, and running through the scenarios in my head. I’m still running through a coding problem with AI that is encroaching on 5 hours, trying to get something to work that should just work (based on the APIs). Thinking is good, thinking is…
I have an issue with repositories, source control, and JIRA projects that are scattered to the heavens. It’s easy for people to hide. They can say they are working on something, but not be and it’s because they are hidden in a project, somewhere, that no one knows about. Reduce the hiding spots, increase the visibility.
Because they force you to do something you’re not (at least not all of us are accustomed to). Focus and get to the finish line. When you are running, that’s the goal, the finish line – whether the road is bad, it’s raining, there are lots of people – the goal is the same: get to the finish line. And the only way to do that is to focus and move your feet. That focus…
Your software needs a “Check Engine” light – it’s getting harder to maintain, it doesn’t work as well as it used to, or it’s hard to understand. Better yet, have an engine light for your team. Does everyone know how our software works and what we do? Do we have a scalable group, and are they growing? It should flash red in your eyes, and like your car make you pause. The problem is we…