2 months ago
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.
2 months ago
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 developed and grown with the Internet, and now AI is literally and figuratively reshaping everything I do. When you reshape, you twist and turn something
2 months ago
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 the Genius Work we need, not more sloppy stuff that no one will ever consume.
2 months ago
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 background. Our constant context switching is what is bringing us down.
2 months ago
Snow is proof that change happens with just a few pluses and/or minuses in degrees. The colder it gets, the more it stays on the ground; the warmer it gets, the more it melts and drips into something else. Change, with a difference of a few degrees. That all it takes, is a little nudge.
