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6 months ago

Greg Thomas

There is always a Balance

How much documentation do you need? How heavy are your processes? How much AI do you use? What level of automation do you have? How many PRs do you ship daily? Whatever your task, whatever your work, there always needs to be a balance between how much you need and how much you want. Do you need to spend time automating every single process that you have in existence, even if you don’t use all of them? Probably not, there is a balance between the most heavily used and the ones with the most complex steps that you mess up

6 months ago

Greg Thomas

Planning for Rain Days

Rain will fall on your parade. On the days you had so much planned to do, you anticipated the desire to have no rain fall. Rain will fall. That rain can be people being absent, leaving their jobs, resources drying up, pivots and turns you didn’t plan. The rain will fall, and some days it will be harder than others. You can always plan for it, but will you scream against it, cross your arms, and complain? Or figure out how you can work within what is there?

6 months ago

Greg Thomas

AI has solved Scope Creep

Remember all those memes about “one more change” for developers when building a product? Scope creep is the number one killer for any project; it’s always one more this, always one more that – there is always one more thing to do to make it perfect. Good news, AI solved the problem. They charge you for how many prompts you ask, and how many credits you have purchased to be able to consider those changes. AI took the biggest developer problem and applied the simplest solution to it – a pay wall. Huzzah for AI!

6 months ago

Greg Thomas

Bold, Italtic and Underline

These three formatting options have permeated our usage across all apps. Building a word editor?  Better have B, I, and U as functions. Will there ever be a fourth option that will become as pervasive as this one? There have been pretenders – semi-bold, heavy-bold, double-line, dotted-line – but nothing has come close to challenging the originals. Will we ever discard one over the other? Unknown at this time.

6 months ago

Greg Thomas

The Fastest Way

Want to go faster in your work? Get prepared, see the target, figure out the steps to get there, and go faster. There is no “go fast” button. There is prep, work, time, and effort. AI has been around for 5 – 7 years (even longer), but has exploded in the last 2 years. And now it is going fast. But to get there, it was prep, tests, failures, work, hard work, and now it’s going fast. Now it’s a wave that took time to build. You don’t win the 100-meter dash by turning on the “fast” button; you train,