p_v_doom

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by p_v_doom 11mo ago
Same here. No matter how hard I try, and use different approaches, from coaching, to sharing videos, through poiting out why this can benefit you personally, to showing how exactly it creates results, there simply is no interest. People don
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by p_v_doom 1y ago
I mean, nobody reads documentation anyway
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by p_v_doom 1y ago
Well, that both sounds logical and matches my experience so far. IMO the whole "parallel career ladder" to me does sound like mostly a way to have something to motivate people who do not go for management, and also maybe to limit
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by p_v_doom 1y ago
> "Focus on problems, not solutions" is pretty standard practice. You'd be surprised. Especially as you go further from tech, or tech minded companies. Dont get me started on more regulated stuff in manufacturing. Ive met
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by p_v_doom 1y ago
> My personal theory is that we reached the point of diminishing returns of what can be built and effectuated via software or people management I dont think so. There are amazing things that can be done with either, but they require a co
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by p_v_doom 1y ago
The problem is not so much IMO that all models hallucinate. Its more that our entire reality, especially as expressed through the training data - text, is entirely constructed. There is no difference in the world made by the text, say when
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by p_v_doom 1y ago
In the company i work at this is the standard. Its all pure waterfall and its dreadfull
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by p_v_doom 1y ago
There are many ways to finance this without strapping a parasite to leech off of it on top
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by p_v_doom 1y ago
Gnostics stay winning
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by p_v_doom 1y ago
Me, trying to ship in a waterfall organization
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by p_v_doom 1y ago
Whenever I use that one I forget to check out then bike half across town several times over and at 3 in the morning I get a huge ticket.
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by p_v_doom 1y ago
And I meant all docs, not just reports
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by p_v_doom 1y ago
Nah, managers are usually the ones that are not prepared for the rigors and discipline, because managers view writing code as something both easy and kind of wishy-washy.
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by p_v_doom 1y ago
Its also not just business text. People dont read period. Sometimes they dont even watch. Sometimes I feel that reading the docs is a super power. Reading an article, watching the occasional talk? Its enough to take over the world... or get
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by p_v_doom 1y ago
> Being the person who writes the doc If only people read them. Everyone is so pressured by made up goals, fake deadlines and horrible communication, that nobody ever wants to read more than a bullet point or two.
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by p_v_doom 1y ago
> The AI decides how to allocate resources, align incentives, and communicate plans Not gonna happen. The resources, incentives and plans even are almost exclusively about communication and people work. You can run as many optimization a
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by p_v_doom 1y ago
Completely agree on software engineering. Not sure if it shouldve been callled engineering ever, but calling it applied philosophy sounds even more pretentious, and while we try to pretend to be rigorous and structured, software engineering
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by p_v_doom 1y ago
Nah its not. You dont have a lot of free choice here, and your options are very severely biased. Its a bit like the old christian thing where you are free to choose, but if you dont choose JC you go to hell...
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by p_v_doom 1y ago
> Where are the environmentalists? The environmentalists have been screaming from the rooftops about it for a while. But activists can only do so much, compared to huge multinationals with marketing budgets bigger than some countries GDP
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by p_v_doom 1y ago
> I dislike the commentary that any pushback against tech companies means you’re a Luddite Me too, and I actually AM a Luddite
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by p_v_doom 1y ago
Human nature is not greed though. Human nature is very very varied and adaptive. And the historical norm of human nature is one of sharing, community and support, as much as such a claim can even be made. And human nature is subject to the
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by p_v_doom 1y ago
> Good experienced devs will be able to make better software I lowkey disagree. I think good experienced devs will be pressured to write worse software or be bottlenecked by having to deal with bad software. Depends on company and cultur
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by p_v_doom 1y ago
Bruh, Spotify has been absolutely shit, and their practices and push towards AI and completely unusuable suggestions algorithm are making it more and more shit.
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by p_v_doom 1y ago
Writing is pure magic.It allows so much reflection and so many insights, that you wouldnt otherwise get. And writing as part of the reading process allows you to directly integrate what you are reading as you are doing it. Like cant recomme
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by p_v_doom 1y ago
> The correct analogy is that software engineers design and build the _factory_. This is, I think very important especially for non-technical managers to grasp (lol, good luck with that).
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by p_v_doom 1y ago
> Out of curiosity, what drove that shift? Denmark has (had) very strong labour movement and left-ish governments, though that has been changing over the last decade or so...
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by p_v_doom 1y ago
> Imagine a world where different communities intentionally live at different technology levels Thats actually kind of the world we live in right now. With of course capitalism and aggressive extraction the whole choosing what level to
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by p_v_doom 1y ago
If we want to be pedantic both go back to cybernetics and the idea of the cybernetic loop.
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by p_v_doom 1y ago
Don't think this is a new paradigm. More of a revival of an old one - that of cybernetics. It was incredibly successful at the time, to the point where so many of its findings today are integral to our world, and we kind of forget wher
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by p_v_doom 1y ago
Bruh, we're inventing robot PMs for our robot developers now? We're so fucked

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