Cancel your daily standup and see if it impacts delivery at all. My bet is it won't and people will communicate with each other, unblock themselves and let you know if they need help.

In all seriousness, though, the best consultants, when it comes to agility, are the independent individuals—people the hugely huge corps that hire the McKinseys of the world would never consider. There are plenty of those folks around, many here on Twitter. Unfortunately, the big

Companies hire McKinsey to tell them that what they’re doing right now, and what they believe right now, is just peachy. Nobody wants to spend millions to be told they’re wrong!

Yes, Twitter/X is definitely dying as predicted 🤣

There is a large amount of over engineering in web development.

Finally economist.com/finance-and-ec…

Stop Designing Your Web Application for Millions of Users When You Don’t Even Have 100 darrenhorrocks.co.uk/stop-designing…

An outage that has disabled hundreds of myki readers is believed to be caused by the shutdown of Telstra’s 3G network, even after Victoria spent millions of dollars ensuring they would work with 4G. danielbowen.com/2024/11/09/myk…

And no, AI is not writing their code. Most of these people are chilling so hard they have no idea what AI can do. Most people in tech were never surprised that Elon could lay off 80% of Twitter, you can lay off 80% of most of these companies

In 1994, people told me programming was for nerds and that I should become a doctor or a lawyer instead. 10 years later, they told me that someone from India would take my job for $5/hour. Then, no code was going to doom my career. In 2021, Codex, then Copilot, then ChatGPT,

More people certainly does not equal more progress. Especially when it comes to knowledge work in domains like software & technology

Monoliths -> Microservices -> Monoliths Full circle. I never saw how microservices were a good idea

The Recurring Cycle of Developer Replacement Hype alonso.network/the-recurring-…

Medicore programmers assisted by AI at the moment won't produce anything useful or lasting

WhatsApp supported 450 million daily users with just 32 engineers No Kubernetes and no microservice architectures Just a small group solving one clear problem: Replace SMS—reliably, at scale If anyone asked you if this is possible, you would probably say no But the solution

The most hype is amongst those that least understand what AI is and isn't currently

100%

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Probably not hard to replace an MBA with current AI. 🤣 That says something about the value of those degrees

Monoliths -> Microservices -> Monoliths (full circle)