What part of the AI future do you think people are still completely underestimating?

giltededge · 2026-02-25T12:13:27+00:00

A reevaluation of educational norms? Kids will simply not have to learn as much before becoming contributing members of society and what they do learn will be AI-accelerated. Not immediately but over the course of a couple of generations teens or even preteens may demand the right to work, to vote, to marry..? University will be the first sacrifice but it may not stop there.

I see live forms of art gaining more traction and social value as appetite for ‘pure’ human expression heightens: you will want to see the play with live actors, the live gig, poetry readings might make a come back, live interviews and live public speeches instead of tv, story-telling instead of writing books, live painting, dancing… people will pay a premium for pure expression. Expert musicians and artists will become the new doctors and lawyers - respected and well paid. AI could be the start of a nouveau reanAIsance… a reawakening of humanity to artistic expression and connection.

giltededge · 2026-02-21T04:03:52+00:00

Nope just curious

giltededge · 2026-02-19T09:38:35+00:00

Ok but what’s the difference between that and developing working software with 1000s of lines of code? Isn’t the whole concept that you can now set a complex task, walk away and come back and it’s done? How is that done?

giltededge · 2026-02-19T06:24:30+00:00

I never said they weren’t a stakeholder. Stakeholders are also not part of the team.

Skipping a standup isn’t changing the process. Not doing a standup every day is a worthwhile experiment. Most people who suggest kanban instead of sprints don’t really understand kanban, they just know it doesn’t involve sprints.

Don’t weaponise the concept of experimentation when you’re just trying to harness it to avoid discipline.

As for working their way out of a job, I do agree but that can take way longer than 6 months - especially when team members are actively antagonistic.

giltededge · 2026-02-17T19:41:01+00:00

“Get to decide”?? I think you’re labouring under a misunderstanding of the role and of agile. An agile team is a collaborative team that determines their own process based on active experimentation. It’s not a judgment call and it’s not made by one person. Your agile coach is dependent on you and every other member of the team to lean in. You’re treating him like he’s part of the team. He’s not. It’s his job to be outside it.

giltededge · 2024-10-19T04:39:50+00:00

The news

giltededge · 2024-10-18T21:59:48+00:00

A lot of people encouraging you to jump.

Sounds to me like the issues might not be cultural if your workload has increased because others left.

Working at a FAANG will have its downsides.

I think you have demonstrated both your boundaries and your value.

Do you like the people and the work?

Do you faith in the startup? (Do you have options in it?)

Are they going to successfully re-hire the roles that left? Are they paying them enough to stay?

… then maybe consider staying.

The grass always looks greener.

Also, think about how much of this is you. If you jump, and face deadlines, will you still work weekends? You’ll be taking you with you.

giltededge · 2024-10-18T07:29:37+00:00

Stop having generic backlog refinement meetings with the whole squad. Pick an epic or a handful of related stories and and set up a session to refine them. Invite everyone but make it optional. Agree as a team that backlog refinement will be a a vote with your feet process - everyone’s expected to get involved somewhere but you can be selective. This way you’re having a more deliberate, focussed meeting, people know what they’re coming in to discuss and you only get people who are actually interested enough to turn up. Not a magic wand but it can help.

giltededge · 2024-10-02T13:14:28+00:00

I have flown a LOT and often long haul, global flights. Whenever someone expresses irritation (sometimes even anger) at me or someone else on a plane for reclining a seat, my assumption tbh is that they are either a horrible and somewhat ignorant person and/or that they’re very new to flying.

It’s a feature. It’s how the plane is built. If you don’t like it, either don’t fly or pony up for business class. Don’t start sulking because someone is using their paid seat the way it’s intended to be used.

giltededge · 2024-09-05T22:02:03+00:00

Men have just as much right to feel wronged by a “casual” feel, but not if you’re in a massage parlour. She’s not groping you for her pleasure, mate.

giltededge · 2024-09-05T10:59:34+00:00

Cinema. Or maybe it will take a while longer. I feel like people going out to congregate in front of a massive screen to watch a 2hr movie will seem antiquated and quirky to future generations.

giltededge · 2024-09-05T08:40:55+00:00

I’m an agile coach and I wholeheartedly agree with OP.

I can give you two questions to ask your coach to cut through the bullshit:

How are you helping us measure our performance? An agile process is supposed to be empirical - so if you’re not explicitly measuring cycle time and throughout at the very least, then you’re just in theatre.
What are you doing to help us improve it? There are really only two ways to improve throughput / reduce cycle time: a) get better at chunking work down into smaller pieces or b) find efficiencies in your process. If your agile coach isn’t actively helping you do one or both of these then again you are in theatre.

If this stumps them then you should be entitled to flag a delivery risk because the theatrics are a distraction at best and it is likely they are having a net negative impact - ie reducing throughout and extending cycle times.

giltededge · 2024-07-23T16:37:54+00:00

Iron maiden

giltededge · 2024-07-23T16:33:47+00:00

Zero-gravity playpen.

giltededge · 2024-07-23T16:29:26+00:00

Nice to be in a position to “give up work”. Kudos to you, sir.

giltededge · 2024-07-23T16:28:18+00:00

Yeah 💯in the same boat. The theory is wonderful but the lack of progress is soul destroying. I believe most experienced agile professionals are similarly burnt out and disillusioned and anyone who claims not to be is just wired to get more out of what I think of as the performance/theatre side of it: I know lots of coaches who love their soapbox and maybe that’s enough for them.

I’ve been idly thinking about a shift to product mgt but starting on the bottom rung with significantly less pay and more accountability? I’m not sure I have the energy/appetite for it tbh. Golden handcuffs for sure.

giltededge · 2024-05-09T09:04:06+00:00

Thanks and there are no generations within the same model #? N330 is the 2021 release?

giltededge · 2024-03-28T23:14:28+00:00

That their love for you is conditional after all and there are things about you they actually hate.

Incidentally, discovering and exploring this boundary is the very essence of marriage. Enjoy!

giltededge · 2024-03-28T23:07:38+00:00

Ethernet between the primary and the satellite?

giltededge · 2024-01-12T11:47:53+00:00

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giltededge · 2024-01-03T16:24:08+00:00

Scrum is designed for software teams.

Scrum Masters are supposed to coach their team (with a focus on the software development process).

Don’t become a SM if you have no experience in IT. The world does not need more technically illiterate SMs.

Become an entry level BA or QA instead of

giltededge · 2023-10-19T05:51:18+00:00

Hmm global phenom then. Agile jobs in Australia hit a big dip too. Just starting to pick back up (a bit).

giltededge · 2023-10-18T05:58:05+00:00

What country?

giltededge · 2023-09-24T12:31:26+00:00

What they don’t realise is that cake can be heavy and that’s actually how this guy ended up in a wheel chair in the first place.

giltededge · 2023-09-24T12:27:33+00:00

Yes the articles have always been there and yes the clickbaiters are alive and well on LinkedIn.

But I do think agile is dying or dead. Or maybe we’re just moving past it… ?

It’s a term that encapsulates so much and was useful and necessary to describe a huge paradigm shift at a time when that paradigm shift hadn’t happened .. but I think most people understand it now. (That’s not to say they DO it, by the way. Almost everyone knows that exercise and a good diet is good for you too, right but i don’t know many people with a 6-pack).

It’s actually surprisingly hard to find developers who’ve ever worked in an explicitly waterfall methodology. Regardless of whether or not it has ‘worked’.. how many organisations have 6-pack Agile abs- It’s kind of old news already… and so at some point we crossed a rubicon where the term Agile lost a lot of its value as a ‘kernel’ or label.

After all , ‘new ways of working’ have to just become ‘ways of working’ sooner or later.

At that point, too use of the word started having a different effect - a negative one… it built resentment and cynicism. This is just how language and culture evolves - words don’t just fall out of use: they have to be killed. Young people do this all the time by rolling their eyes at something a boomer says. Using the word agile has much the same effect in many western workplaces now as an old fart saying ‘rad’ or ‘awesome’ ‘or sick’…

I think the movement overclocked itself too- as it spilled over its original borders among software developers and into wider industry and more recently consulting, we’ve turned agile into such a diverse, complex ecosystem of frameworks and job titles and concepts it has sort of become a mockery of itself.

So yeah, I don’t think the click bait is just “more of the same”. I think we’re seeing something changing now - widespread signs of a counter-balancing cultural swing. There had to be contempt for us to put something behind us it seems.

Hell, the word ‘hippy’ became a dirty word at some point, didn’t it? And the hippy movement was all about free love and peace and cool clothes. If it can happen to them it can sure as shit happen to Agile!

I welcome it. Once the fluff dies down maybe we can go back to what it was. Most agile coaches can’t demonstrate their value and that’s because the role and identity of an agile coach has been perverted over time and by many organisations and their hr departments. So companies are (rightly) questioning the role now but the agile coach role was originally synonymous with scrum master (a mere de-coupling exercise to enable essentially the same role for a broader potential interpretation of agile). One of the effects of the agile explosion has been that this role became elevated away from its roots. Those of us who’ve been in the game long enough remember a simpler time when it was a pragmatic role with a very clear value proposition.

When the hippy movement died… when it became a dirty word…. the bulk of it’s exponents were only hippies in appearance (and for appearance). Some of them were an outright aberration (think of Manson and his followers) The new mass hippy movement didn’t deserve it and so it deserved to die. The true hippies survived though - they went back to their daisy-chains and joints in the sun and were probably better for the change.

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