James Higginbotham
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API and AI coach. Author of "Principles of Web API Design" (Addison Wesley). Instructor. Coach. Consultant. Enterprise architecture
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One of the great group shots of "The Late Show" staff posing on stage:
I'm hearing more and more enterprises migrating to 3 person feature teams. At the same time, anecdotal evidence points to a 10-20% efficiency gain with GenAI in the SDLC for production ready code. The coordination costs across teams are just too high when you split on features, especially when you factor in the coordination costs from each engineer to the GenAI model (since it just replaced one or two engineer per feature team). I am interested in seeing what happens, but I just don't think the maths really math when you factor real world plus enterprise into the equation.
Jeff Bezos explains the idea of “paper cut” teams “There are big things that are really important to manage — and by the way, it’s astonishingly hard to focus on just the big things. Even though they’re obvious, they’re really hard to focus on. But in addition to that, there are all these tiny customer deficiencies. We call those ‘paper cuts,’ and we make long lists of them. Then we have dedicated teams that go fix paper cuts. That’s because the teams that are working on the big issues never get to the paper cuts. They never work their way down the list. They’re working on big things — as they should and as you want them to — so you need special teams who are charged with fixing paper cuts.” Source: @lexfridman (Dec 2023)
You want to fix education? Pay teachers more.
What’s a scene where every technical aspect came together perfectly?
New Dumpster Fire we do an autopsy on Late Night and submit our reel for CBS consideration. Premieres now! youtu.be/wK0HvzHyaSg
YO Does your company/product have a BYOC ("bring your own cloud") offering? You know, where you do the crazy thing of dropping a SaaS into a customer's on-prem/cloud environment? I'd love to chat about what you're doing for monitoring and observability. DMs open!
People were/are actually annoyed that superman stopped crime in this page and wonder why the entire comics industry is fighting to stay out of the landfills.
People keep asking "what jobs will AI destroy?" Wrong question. Instead, ask what a brilliant 14-year-old in West Virginia can now do that he could never do before. Previously all his relatives went into the mine bc that was the only door open to them. He was largely doomed because of where he was born. A kid growing up in that same holler today can build an AI company from his bedroom. Think about what that actually means for opportunity in America. The Doomers are wrong. These new tools will make the system more meritocratic, more democratized, and more distributed than ever before.
Name an addiction that society has fully normalized.
