2 weeks ago
Tech debt was always meant to be avoided, but now it is becoming the dream. As we feel the need to move faster and faster, mistakes are made every day, and the mountain of debt grows. Engineers are being rehired to fix Techdebt and not build new product because the push to get to the market first is still prevalent – nothing else matters. If we continue at this rate, software development will no longer be a creative endeavour, but a cleaning exercise.
3 weeks ago
We used to be organized, now we hope pointing an AI agent at our work is going to resolve the issue. It won’t. That’s not how it works. You need some base level of organization and standards to make it work. Also, have you noticed how organized teams are able to adopt AI faster?
3 weeks ago
If you don’t know what the priority is, how do you know you’re doing the right thing? You don’t and as result, neither does your team.
3 weeks ago
The default tool doesn’t do what you need it to do. It hasn’t been upgraded in 10 years, and now it’s not even a feature; it’s more like a hanger-on, and that’s about it. You can mock up and build something that much better in 30 minutes. You can give your users a better experience. You can get them excited to use your tool. That’s what building something better is about – getting people to see a new way of using something that they’ve been forced into for years and then wondering why they didn’t do this themselves in the
4 weeks ago
If you’re running your business from Notepad, AI won’t help much. Maybe if you had thousands of text files to comb through, it could provide an analysis and give you some details on what is what. But would you want to keep running your business that way? Would you want to, inefficiently, ask AI to parse through thousands of text files of data on a daily basis, just to “figure out” what to do? At some point, the AI is going to come back and say, “there is a better way to do this”. So why not do that better
