That’s the lesson I learned many years ago writing my first legit lines of code. It’s not yours, it’s not theirs, it’s ours. So if I get a bug and have to go in and fix it, no harm, no foul, I’m fixing our code. There is no ownership of code, there is no baby, and there is only our collective code being distributed to our customers. Yes you put a lot of effort into…
Been reading some articles that Agile is on its way out – Oh no! Time for a new methodology to come in and replace what we’re doing (perhaps we can hand it off to AI). Agile is a Framework, Waterfall is a Framework, and everything other methodology you use is a Framework – when you put them together, you the Lead Developer, Manager, etc. – they become a methodology. Rarely have I seen someone follow…
I read a plethora of Choose Your Own Adventure Books as a kid – they were great. I don’t know what today’s equivalent of them would be. But as I was writing this article, I could smell the paper, feel the book in my hands and was flooded with memories of flipping back and forth trying to outsmart the author – I never did. But here it is – Choose your Own Adventure.
AI can reimagine things. AI can pull together information. AI can get you started on a proposal. AI can answer questions. AI can build things. Show me AI coming up with an idea from scratch. I want that create AI, I want AI levels up, not just do something faster. Until then, I will wave at my IT overlords as they pass by with a mutual nod of appreciation for doing good work.
The only way to go is down when digging a hole. When you hit a rock, you switch from the big awesome tool to the small tiny tool that is slower progress but gets the job done. When one obstacle is cleared, you keep digging further and further until you hit the next one. Until you finally hit the bottom, and then you’re there and you’re done. You never know how far you are to…