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AI talking to Humans talking to AI
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This is How I do it
1 day ago
The Ownership in Your Work
2 days ago
The Leaders You Need
3 days ago
I Don’t Know is the Best Answer
4 days ago
Your Best Team Culture
1 week ago
A Blistering Pace
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Get Out of the Way
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Flying Cars
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What Most Architecture Designs Miss
AI-masked conversations to humans are massively on the rise. A number of times over the past month, I’ll get… “Well, Claude says…” “Well, Copilot gave me this…” “Well, here is what Gemini came up with…” Yes, of course, that is what it said, but what is your spin? What is your input? What is your context to the issue at hand? Give me your flavour and thoughts around what AI came back with. Either that or just pull me into the chat with your AI. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook …
1 day ago
This is How I do it
Greg Thomas
When someone says “this is how I do it” – they aren’t asking for input; they are definitely not asking for advice or feedback on how they do their job. They are simply saying, “This is how I do it,” and the corollary, which is “Deal with it.” They don’t say the “Deal with it,” but it’s implied, and you need to figure out how to work around it or with it. It’s an odd statement, because anyone can pull up an AI agent and ask for the best path to do a job, and 70% of the time, there …
1 day ago
The Ownership in Your Work
Greg Thomas
If it breaks, it’s on you. If it looks like you copied it from AI without your own context, you copied it from AI without your own context. If it’s sloppy, you wrote it. If it doesn’t work, you built it. Things don’t always go the way we want in our work, but the level of effort and commitment that we invest is always, entirely up to us. Sloppy, Lazy, cut-and-paste work is a signal of our investment and commitment. You can own and make it more, or leave it and hope no one cares. The thing about ownership, which …
2 weeks ago
What Most Architecture Designs Miss
What you build, how you design work- these things all matter when building a software solution (yes, even today in the age of AI) – because I think, for the most part, we all want our work to stand the test of time. In order for your work to stand the test of time, it needs one very important thing backing it. What is the problem you are trying to solve? If you can’t condense that down to one sentence, then it doesn’t matter what you have designed; I know you don’t understand what you are designing it for, and …
2 weeks ago
Where are we?
In any movie, when our intrepid team is trying to solve the latest problem in front of them, what do they do? They take stock of where they are, they lay all their equipment out, they throw away all pretense and nonsense, and simply ask the question – “Where are we?” If you are not doing this with your team, if you are masking this question around ideals and hopes and not wanting to rock the boat, then you are letting your team down. Where are we is the most important question you need to be asking your team. Want …
2 weeks ago
Team Events
Team Events need to start making a comeback. I don’t know when they went away, but dinner and a movie is not a team event. Doing things together, taking everyone away from the computer, having laughs and smiles about anything and everything. That’s what builds team culture, memories, moments, strung together – not just all about work. Team Events don’t have to cost money, and those are often the best ones. Team events are what bring people together, like anything else, and if you’re not having them, then you’re keeping your team apart. Want more? Check out my book Code …