I’m going to Keith Keller’s upcoming Space. Will you join too? twitter.com/i/spaces/1vOGw…

This is me in every Twitter space.

Why replacing orange street lights is an aesthetic downgrade — and bad for our health:

Slack& Teams are super dangerous for organizations.

You should immediately kill any non-work related discussions on chat, and remind all team members that all communications on chat are recorded and can and will be monitored.

If they say something on corporate channels they…

Despite recent events, I’m optimistic about the future.

AI won't kill software developer jobs; it will multiply them.

Every person using AI to write code that doesn't work or scale creates new jobs for real developers who know how to fix the mess.

The Daniel Vassallo YC post is a less eloquent way of saying what I said 3 years ago.

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I'm continually amazed that AI researchers see challenges in society that are clearly unsolvable yet think the non-biological versions will be solvable. If AIs are to be as smart & complex as humans, which OpenAI seems to believe, then AIs will be just as ungovernable as humans.

'Will AI replace developers?'

Short answer: no.

Longer answer:

A typical developer can easily be 20-30% more productive with something like GPT-4.

Once they learn to use it well, they can be 50-100+% more productive.

This means that the work that used to be done by a…

I engage with people who have few followers.

Why?

Cause fuck the algorithm.

Stupid ways to compensate programmers:

I've seen every single one of these. They backfire and make working for your company a living hell.

Pay your developers by the number of bugs they close. After a week, they will start committing bugs on purpose so they can fix them a day…

Tracking time is for bureaucrats. If they make you do it, find another job.

The worst part of my job was always filling out a timesheet.

Nothing made me more miserable than an end-of-day email because I forgot to send my timesheet.

Unfortunately, this is common across the…

I’m not sure he’s going to retire and nor do I think he should.

There are many benefits to not retiring:

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I wrote, 'Scrum is a cancer,' and the Internet had thoughts about it.

After 3,400 replies, I learned a few things:

First, the most common jobs among the people who told me I was wrong were 'Agile Coach' and 'Scrum Master.' They feel very strongly in favor of Scrum, but I'm not…

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Programming is changing. Fast!

The attached code example uses Gorilla, an open-source Large Language Model that specializes in writing API calls.

Gorilla kicks GPT-4's butt at this task. It's also much better than ChatGPT and Claude. The team claims the model is very reliable…

Twitter now have a limit on the number of DMs an unverified account can send per day.

The goal is to reduce spam, but lots of DMs are long conversations between accounts.

Elon Musk A better way to reduce spam is to limit the no. of accounts an account can DM per day.