Indeed. I’m personally doubling down on model-centric programming and keep tight control of the models, while being more permissive with the transformations between models. It is nice that models remain stable, explains…
When the loop speeds up you need good judgement more often. It explains the divergence and it explains why I feel so tired at the end of a workday.
I’m increasingly curious if revisiting Brooks’ surgical team makes sense in this age. Knowledge transfer has always been a bottleneck, but in this time it is often just no longer worth it (compared to the old world…
I’ve recently given a talk on R&D in the time of AI and based it on Naur’s essay for exactly that reason. While it is in some sense harder, there are also opportunities, because the reach of a person is bigger and one…
Right, I think Brooks means “the act of creation” here, rather than “the product of their creation”.
While that is a challenge, I think the author does a good job explaining that intuition is more than “good vibe”. It is a coherent understanding. And luckily, coherent understanding is by its nature also easier to…
I enjoyed the introduction. I just picked up “The mind of the Maker” by Sayers, which Fred Brooks cites in The Mythical Man Month: “ Dorothy Sayers, in her excellent book, The Mind of the Maker, divides creative…
For my work in innovation/R&D the leaps are relevant but more or less orthogonal to what I’m talking about above. I think there is a limit to the consistency and quality that one can expect of software whose surface…
Inexplicable has a range from “I can’t explain that” to “that is not in the realm of possibility”. Windows failures especially have been steadily moving from A (already pretty sad) to B in the past years and I’ve been…
Excellent and (it goes without saying) important work. My only suggestion is to edit a file by… playing Minecraft. Extra points if you make a meaningful edit in survival mode.
Yes: the human provides the qualitative judgement and the agent provides the executive function.
Do you mean that specifically those models perform badly without guidance or do all models need specific instructions for technical writing? We have observed that it is a loss for teamwork that the sparring with AI is…
Although I’d like this to work, I have not seen evidence that AIs extract good reusable knowledge from sessions without strong guidance. I do R&D work in comp sci and usually write software and reports or papers in…
I think that just highlights how “empowerment” through tech is biased towards producers, which makes sense because that aligns with the usual business propositions. For consumers, YT is not empowering. It fulfills a…
Meta just lost a court case against bits of freedom in the Netherlands, because their instagram setting to turn off the attention grabbing feed would reset every month or so. The court ruled that this infringed on the…
Dutch newspaper Trouw also reported that their ad was rejected multiple times by Meta. After inquiry into this they found it was because it was about sustainability and hence considered “a political ad”. (Paywalled)…
Indeed. I’m personally doubling down on model-centric programming and keep tight control of the models, while being more permissive with the transformations between models. It is nice that models remain stable, explains…
When the loop speeds up you need good judgement more often. It explains the divergence and it explains why I feel so tired at the end of a workday.
I’m increasingly curious if revisiting Brooks’ surgical team makes sense in this age. Knowledge transfer has always been a bottleneck, but in this time it is often just no longer worth it (compared to the old world…
I’ve recently given a talk on R&D in the time of AI and based it on Naur’s essay for exactly that reason. While it is in some sense harder, there are also opportunities, because the reach of a person is bigger and one…
Right, I think Brooks means “the act of creation” here, rather than “the product of their creation”.
While that is a challenge, I think the author does a good job explaining that intuition is more than “good vibe”. It is a coherent understanding. And luckily, coherent understanding is by its nature also easier to…
I enjoyed the introduction. I just picked up “The mind of the Maker” by Sayers, which Fred Brooks cites in The Mythical Man Month: “ Dorothy Sayers, in her excellent book, The Mind of the Maker, divides creative…
For my work in innovation/R&D the leaps are relevant but more or less orthogonal to what I’m talking about above. I think there is a limit to the consistency and quality that one can expect of software whose surface…
Inexplicable has a range from “I can’t explain that” to “that is not in the realm of possibility”. Windows failures especially have been steadily moving from A (already pretty sad) to B in the past years and I’ve been…
Excellent and (it goes without saying) important work. My only suggestion is to edit a file by… playing Minecraft. Extra points if you make a meaningful edit in survival mode.
Yes: the human provides the qualitative judgement and the agent provides the executive function.
Do you mean that specifically those models perform badly without guidance or do all models need specific instructions for technical writing? We have observed that it is a loss for teamwork that the sparring with AI is…
Although I’d like this to work, I have not seen evidence that AIs extract good reusable knowledge from sessions without strong guidance. I do R&D work in comp sci and usually write software and reports or papers in…
I think that just highlights how “empowerment” through tech is biased towards producers, which makes sense because that aligns with the usual business propositions. For consumers, YT is not empowering. It fulfills a…
Meta just lost a court case against bits of freedom in the Netherlands, because their instagram setting to turn off the attention grabbing feed would reset every month or so. The court ruled that this infringed on the…
Dutch newspaper Trouw also reported that their ad was rejected multiple times by Meta. After inquiry into this they found it was because it was about sustainability and hence considered “a political ad”. (Paywalled)…