As much as you try to avoid it. Sometimes you need to investigate a problem line by line. Similar to when you’re trying to find the connecting electrical wire, you need to investigate each one, line by line. There will always be a need to diligently, logically, and carefully identify and walk through a problem. Line by Line doesn’t go away, it just evolves into the next line by line search.
AI is reshaping how we do our work. I was just at the age where I could apply the internet immediately to what I was doing when it took off. I started coding HTML and learning how to make things work, and from there went into JavaScript and many other lovely languages 🙂 My work wasn’t reshaped at that point; it just took on this “thing” called the “Internet”. But now I’m embedded, now I’ve…
I can’t remember when or where, but at some place I worked, someone put this sign up as they were doing stuff. The person, in general, was anything but a genius, and I think this made them feel good about doing “genius” style work. Truth of the matter, we don’t need more “genius, half-created, kind of works, skunkworks” work – we need good quality work, that makes sense, that has value, that builds confidence. That’s…
I took a day, went into the cave, and accomplished so much. I left that day feeling like I had made a huge dent in my pile of work. The next day, I had questions, emails, and instant messages from everyone, and my output dropped like a rock. That’s where AI will beat us, where we have to context switch, AI doesn’t. It takes your question/complaint/prompt and keeps working at the same time in the…
In the beginning, if you work too hard, you’ll sputter out when it counts. There is a tight balance between overworking yourself and operating at the level you need to be at to be effective. We spend most of our careers trying to understand and find that perfect nirvana of optimization between working smart and working hard. We all know our internal limits, and the eternal goal is to find that balance so you don’t…