Tag: ai
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Happiness Minutes
Frank and Lillian Gilbreth kind of invented efficiency as an industrial measurement. And then they had a big fight with Frederick fucking Winslow Taylor about it. See, Taylor wanted humans to be part of the machine. The Gilbreths wanted the machine to serve the humans. Taylor thought that standardizing human behavior would make better factories…
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How guardrails enable you to work at AI speed
On December 10, I’m joining a bunch of cool people on a LeadDev panel to talk about guardrails and AI use. Register to join us! As we were doing the pre-panel discussion, I started thinking about the metaphor we were using. Guardrails are not uniquely American, but they are very American. We see them so…
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Talk: Taylorism Has Entered the ChatGPT
I want you to remember that technology is not the enemy. It’s just a lever. Where we’re standing and how we’re trying to move the world is what matters.
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LDX3: How to Write Right Now
The hard part of technical writing is not figuring out what order to put words in. Indeed, an LLM can do a medium job of that given a sound prompt. The hard part is thinking through the context that makes it useful to the people reading it.
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Consent-Based Computing
Can’t make me! Possibly not everyone has this immediate reaction to software telling them to do something, like SIGN UP NOW or TRY AI or USE OUR CHATBOT. I do. My day is full of ignoring that reaction and also learning every tip and trick possible to avoid being alerted when I don’t want it.…
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How long has this been going on?
It’s easy to feel like AI* was the domain of science fiction and IBM moonshots until ChatGPT burst onto the public consciousness like Kool-Aid Man. It’s easy, but it’s not correct. What even is AI? LLMs have been around a lot longer than that, fixing your spelling and grammar and missed semicolons at the end…
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Progressive Delivery and AI*
The year is 2024. A group of writers who thought they had a complete book proposal looks at the landscape of technology, curses, and starts outlining a chapter on AI. We all write about AI now, except for the bits where AI writes about us. Progressive Delivery is “Delivering the right product to the right…
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Lady Conference Speaker: AI and presentations
I just got back from 2 weeks across 3 events, and I have a lot of thoughts about how AI* is showing up in conference presentations. * [for these purposes, let’s define “AI” as the umbrella term for LLMs, generative tools, text-to-image generators, automatic prompts and suggestions from tools, and pretty much anything but “intelligence”.…
