Viewing profile — bdg

I wonder if going the other way, maxing out semantic density per token, would improve LLM ability (perhaps even cost). We use naturally evolved human languages for most of the trai…

Leading is an imperfect predictor for the change we actually care about. Lagging is a late confirmer. Hours worked is an imperfect predictor of output in a factory. Widgets deliver…

This requires a preset architecture standard that explains specifically what boxes and arrows are, and how boxes/arrows interact. Lots of software smears a logical box out over sev…

Honestly we have the same problem outside of engineering. C4 is really just a way to focus conversations along one level of abstraction. How many times have you talked to someone w…

Having structured architecture conventions becomes more important when you have many architecture conversations across multiple people and would like to gain insights from the diag…

The code-model gap is why we don't have this. You don't organize code the way you mentally model it in many projects, and nearly all languages lack a way to solve this. Annotating …

There is a medium-to-weak argument that enforcing these minimum standards even in clearly benign places raises standards everywhere, which means it is much less likely to show up i…

When I meet someone with two PhDs in Europe I started to evaluate if they're contributing massive brain-blasts to civilization or if they just wanted to delay the next chapter of a…

I have to say I feel like there's a lot of comments in this thread that are just totally detached from reality. I moved from Toronto to Berlin in 2017 and a lot of comments in here…

These DSL tools can be absolutely fantastic and feel powerful in the hands of one person, but the issues come when multiple people get involved. I train teams to use C4 diagrams, o…

Our languages mostly do not have the syntax needed to express higher abstractions. You could create one via meta files or special comment notation perhaps, but it doesn't exist yet…

https://leftwardsplanning.com/ I'm building a planning methodology for tech teams to use once they know what they want to build in an iteration. This is meant to be the missing nea…

The thing with stupid people is they think everyone else is stupid except themselves.

How do they solve the Code-Model gap?

Is it just programmers, or is it product managers and literally everyone who wants that next feature?

No, it groups together teams. Teams do not group teams.

Yep. Had multiple ex-Faang folks who couldn't ship the most basic tickets in a startup because there weren't 10 invisible teams making their lives easier.

In the article he identified the authors are moving the platform concept to a "grouping" instead of a team. This is a very recent development that mostly only people who are active…

https://buildingbetterteams.de/profiles/brian-graham I write about a lot of stuff, ranging from technical topics like page performance or git commands, up to how I run my business,…