9 months ago
It might not be the best feedback you’ve heard. It might take you down a peg. It might even make you tear up. But there are 8 billion other people on the planet who haven’t heard your idea and this idea, this thing, might be just what they are looking for and just what they need. Don’t throw it away, keep it, think about it, ponder it. But don’t accept it as the all encompassing feedback for what you are building.
9 months ago
Microsoft put out this fun article this past week on the Top 40 jobs threatened by AI and those that are seemingly secure. The full article is here. Hats off to the use of Top 40, invoking the vibes of Casey Kasem’s weekly Top 40 that I listened to as a kid for years. In the Top 40, most affected jobs… #5 Authors and Writers – Because we no longer will want creative, innovative thoughts and stories being created. #17 Mathematicians – Because AI will always get math right? What about all those unsolvable puzzles from Goodwill Hunting? #20 Hosts
9 months ago
Nothing ever works the first time. New ideas stumble over the finish line the first time, and once there, will probably need some help to get ready for the next race. The Unproven ideas, or even the “Not Proven Here” ideas, are the ones with the greatest Naysayers because they are rooted in change. Changing what you do. Changing what the team does. Feeling uncomfortable. Challenging the Unknown. That’s what Naysayers do, they don’t talk about what could be, but what couldn’t be if we were to change. Don’t let them hold you back.
9 months ago
Reading the comments of those who came before me and writing my own comments in moments of frustration have always been the greatest outlets for any developer. Remember those times where you checked in code 7x in 15 minutes, thinking this was the LAST fix, but it wasn’t? Those comments were golden. Or when you finished a mammoth task and committed it to main and wrote “Here goes nothing?” Or maybe it was as single word on a bug that stumped everyone, and all you wrote was “Believe”. AI will probably not have as many colourful comments as we do.
9 months ago
In High School, showing your work on how you solved a problem was a big deal. You could have the correct answer, not show your work, and you were punished for it in your score. “How dare you know the answer and not show how you got there?” How much of your work are you showing now? Are you showing your prompts that you give to Chat GPT? Are you showing the questions you ask? Are you showing how you Vibe code? Or are you simply doing it? This works, not showing your work, and we’re all happy and moving
