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Interesting. Speaking of propaganda, I'm pretty sure that most Hacker News comments are not funded by AIPAC.

https://www.trackaipac.com/


Yup, this is a general solution I entered "Chicken Tikka" and got the following output:

Leveraging a synergistic blend of traditional heritage and high-impact culinary innovation to deliver a premium, protein-forward experience. It’s about more than just a meal; it’s about optimizing the flavor-profile ecosystem and scaling authentic engagement through every bite. #DisruptingDinner #CulinaryExcellence #GrowthMindset #ChickenTikkaSolutions


Imagine, this is just one of thousands upon thousands of incredibly tragic and similar stories of the last few years (going back much further than October 7th).

Most such stories never see the light of day. Hind Rajab is one such story which got some reasonable exposure [0]. I suppose this one will as well get due exposure at some point.

But the vast majority of similar atrocities will just vanish in the sands of time.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Hind_Rajab


I also get what I would describe as "near" panic attacks when I smoke (about once every two weeks, with friends). I realised that after about 15 minutes or so it cools down and I feel, perhaps, more relaxed than before I started. Purely anecdotal but I feel you. Maybe a bit of cooldown and good company helps with the paranoia.

I see. So AI is reducing the number of jobs in the tech sector because fewer people are needed to ship stuff (thanks to AI). And since fewer people are needed across the tech sector then we don't need things like Jira anymore because it can all be done on post-its or Google sheets or something, so there's no need for Atlassian accounts anymore. And Atlassian can now do more with less thanks to AI.

I can't wait for Atlassian physical sticky-notes to take over.

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Agile itself is predicated on software being difficult to ship/expensive. It might not make sense to continue (waterfall might be better actually)

The real problem is that company decisions will never be made as fast as software can be written (and rewritten) now.


> Agile itself is predicated on software being difficult to ship/expensive.

No, the opposite; it is predicated on software being cheap and easy to ship, but hard to correctly anticipate the needs for.

> It might not make sense to continue (waterfall might be better actually)

Waterfall, not agile, is predicated on software being difficult to ship/expensive.


Imagine doing AI development in waterfall. You spend weeks writing your prompt, when you think you have it perfect, only then do you submit it to the AI. Then you wait a week or so, and see what it produced, expecting it to be exactly what you wrote.

Or, do you tell it the basic functionality you want, test it out, then add feature after feature that you want, sometimes dropping them and sometimes adding new ones that you thought of as your worked.


I don’t think that’s what it would look like at all. The first stages would be cheap - mostly requirements gathering and research, but a bit more focus on that. A bit more time would be spent up front, but then you’d see multiple proposals being built, from that multiple plans being built, and finally multiple implementations to choose from. You might see A/B testing of multiple implementations or even products, and then a decision on which to pursue. You could move in multiple dimensions concurrently.

I’m not sure this is agile. I’m not sure it’s a waterfall.

We’ve got bounds on our infinite typing monkeys, but they increase every day


> Or, do you tell it the basic functionality you want, test it out, then add feature after feature that you want, sometimes dropping them and sometimes adding new ones that you thought of as your worked

the problem with this is long term maintainability. it works - and the engineer understands how it works - but a) the AI does not prioritize cleanup/organization/naming, and b) there's a blind spot/boiling frog type of phenomenon that can prevent the engineer from spotting the growing problem. the codebase becomes recognizable only to them. the engineer sees all features working, all bugs fixed, 90% test coverage, and submits it for a PR.

the engineer tasked with reviewing the PR will treat it as slop.


The vast majority of "AI is changing everything!" takes I read say more about people's fundamental misunderstandings of the software development lifecycle (the real one that companies actually do, not the one that people think they do or what companies say they do) than about anything AI is going to change about software eng.

If anything, their solving the complete wrong problems and being blind to the actual problems is probably a reason AI won't actually result in any real, top-level appreciable gains in shipping speed.


Waterfall came out when hardware and software had to be developed together, and appealed to traditional Engineering practitioners. You are right though, when the hardware constraints went away, software (more code) was cheaper and easier to ship in increments and iterate. But feature-rich products were still difficult to ship - and you had to pick and choose what things to spend your time on.

The SaaS-pocalypse is occurring versus investors don’t believe that to be true anymore.

I think they will still be wrong because ultimately people want people (particularly experts) to be held accountable for things - shipping high stakes software, running company ERPs/CRMs, and more.


Honestly posts like theirs are just indicative of someone who never understood their job/role.

People throw out terms like agile or waterfall, shit on agile etc. probably because they work at some worse than mediocre place let alone ever done their own thing.

It’s annoying lol


> Agile itself is predicated on software being difficult to ship/expensive.

Software is still "difficult to ship/expensive". Code is very cheap now. Any kind of non-slop software is still expensive.


Glad you mentioned Google Sheets. I moved my personal task tracking from Trello to Notion to Sheets. Sheets has been the best for me. Infinite customizability, fast, lean.

I'm curious how you use Sheets as a Trello-like replacement. I use Trello from time to time but my most recent project is using actual Post-It notes stuck to my monitor, wall etc.

If Sheets works (I love simplicity) then I'll give it a go but I checked and I can't find any templates for Kanban or such.


when agile was fairly new I worked with remote developers that had 3 locations.

My specialty is software requirements and my team was brought in to do the product management. The developers had read somewhere if you were using a database to do requirements then you were doing agile wrong.

They wanted me to write post it notes in triplicate, then fedex them to all their offices.


In many cases, sticky notes are more productive.

Dragging a card to the "Done" column just doesn't hit as hard as crumpling up a sticky note and yeeting it.

And really hard to coordinate with remote teams. I say this as a lover of sticky notes.

Just stick an iPad on top of a stick with wheels.

https://www.doublerobotics.com/

Isn't the solution obvious? Yes I have seen and worked at Web 1.99 companies buying these. "Telepresence". Yikes.


wait, can you _see_ my desk right now?

Where "many cases" all involve a team of 2 to 5 people working together in the same room and never bringing work home.

I'm pretty confident though with no solid evidence if you lower the first number by 1 you are describing the vast majority of employed programmers in the world.

I don't think it's completely right. Jira is a task manager, and the task throughput supposedly remains the same, just fewer assignees.

I think these companies should be pivoting to something where tasks/issues are the places you write the prompts for the AI, or augment the prompts that devs use. It's a big shift though.


In my last jobs Jira was used, and despised by all except product managers. It just becomes a mess. In my startup (now 20 people), we use Trello. Outsiders look at us funny. I respond that its the same company after all...

The best task management solution is the one you just moved to as it doesn't have years of junk in it.

I hate Jira just like any other sane person does. But really, Trello? I found it worse than Jira. /smh

Possibly dumb question: why not just get a previous generation MacBook Air for a similar price? Even a refurb one. I really don't understand who this is for, apart from children perhaps (but still just get a bloody MacBook Air)


For people, new to the Mac (which make up half of all Mac sales), who don't go hunting for refurbs or want to buy used gear, and where a $1099 price point is cost prohibitive.

Basically every regular computer user who shops at Amazon or Costco.


You can buy a brand new M1 Air at Walmart for $650.


+1 but I don't see that as a guilty displeasure to be honest. I also formed most of my musical taste in the 90s and to this day Dirt, Sap and Jar of Flies sound just as good as they did back in the day.


Oh bless, caring about civilians! How about the more than 16,000 children murdered and about 4000 child amputees. Yes, it's super reassuring that you care about civilians.


We are already seeing civilians killed: https://aje.news/p4rw7y?update=4345551 [Five killed in Israeli attack on elementary school in Iran]


It's the Iranian people who will be the final judge of how much civilian death is acceptable.

If so many Iranian civilians die that this new revolution fails, then not only will regular Iranians continue to suffer, but all the deaths in the protests and these bombings will have been completely pointless.

If few enough Iranians are affected that they persist, then it may well be worth it.


I honestly would prefer to live in a theocracy governed by the Westboro Baptist Church, as insane as it would be, than by the current Iranian regime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_executions_in_Iran

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guidance_Patrol

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_and_state-sponsored_terro...


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What an amazing false and lazy comment. Are you guys presently underfunded?


unlike you, guys, on islamic republic payroll


I can't help but think that all this shit is because Netanyahu really wants to put off more court hearings on his lame ass corruption charges. I really can't wait for him and his cronies (in Israel, and the West) to be brought to justice.

Without having to wait for the history books to do their thing.


His court appearance are continuing as scheduled, twice a week, for the last year. except for some specific incidents where he had to leave of cancel due to running a state.

No matter what you think, there is no way for him to avoid these hearings


Great, for those minor charges of accepting what, something like 150k Eur in gifts. As opposed to life in prison for genocide, which he clearly and absolutely deserves.


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Go ahead, defend one of the most despicable humans alive this very day. I can't imagine what's going on in your mind. Maybe a combination of Attent and koolaid?


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Dear commenter, I'm not the person with an international arrest warrant on my head. Netanyahu is.

https://www.icc-cpi.int/defendant/netanyahu

And may he face a fair trial and eventual justice.


OP: "Genocide should get you life in prison"

You: "That's just like, your opinion man".

... Are you okay?


OP: Bibi started a war to avoid his corruption case!

Me: that’s incorrect

OP: but genocide!!!!!


While Netanyahu definitely deserves that, don't expect anything to change for the better in Israeli foreign policy if he gets deposed and tried. Israeli politicians have become radicalized to a level that is hard to imagine from a European or US perspective.

Even the leader of the "left wing" opposition has recently explicitly stated that Israel was gifted the entire region from the Euphrates to the Nile by God, so they would have a right to own the entire region, but that this must be balanced by security concerns and tactical realities. This happened in response to the US ambassador's explicit public remarks in the Tucker Carlson interview that also asserted Israel's God-given right to the entire region. Note that this region, from the Euphrates to the Nile, includes about half of Irak, parts of Syria, most of Lebanon, parts of Saudi Arabia, and of Egypt.


Same, this is disgusting. Actions like these need oversight by the US people.


I read the tweet and honestly thought I was reading parody.

It almost is parody that a former Fox News host is the SECRETARY OF WAR.


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