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For the overall series, the central influences are the economic calculation debate associated with Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek; Fred Brooks’ distinction between essential …

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Agreed $&@!& him, and any company hires him

You sound burnt out. If possible move back in with parents and family, take some time to rest and recoup. Things will seem a lot clearer once you take some time to reset

One of the original promises of the cloud was reduced operational overhead—you wouldn’t need armies of sysadmins or people racking hardware. But at scale, the opposite seems to hap…

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And who leads and sets the vision. A committee of “average” engineers?

I regularly do large changes on many millions of lines legacy code bases with no unit tests. It can be done it just requires a lot of work. The only factor that matters is do we ne…

Seen this dance many times

Being in the top 0.001% of developers won’t help if you don’t have a large network or good brand

What a fantastic reply

100%. Also The really difficult work is usually a lot more than 40-50 hours a week

This just tells me you have never worked on anything difficult or something you are passionate in your job

In the same boat, the problem is you get stuck in a few companies due to the small circles of people who know what you can really do. It really limits your career options. Doesn’t …

I have held the most senior engineering roles in some of the largest software companies in Australia and New Zealand. There has been a notable skill and experience gap between me a…

I agree. I am in a very senior role and find that working with AI the same way you do I am many times more productive. Months of work becomes days or even hours of work

I find the opposite, the more senior the more value they offer as you know how to ask the right questions, how to vary the questions and try different tact’s and also observe error…

Agile is perfectly optimised for creating tech debt. Corporate software is almost always impossible to change once released so it’s obvious that frequent iterative deliverables tha…

To be people who also understand it

I believe it is Christianity, even though I am not religious, my parents were not either, but my grand parents and their parents and so on where. And even though my parents stopped…

Image delivering a race car to a customer via Agile, starting with first delivering a bicycle

Disappointed, I was hoping they came out with Agile is BS. Which it mostly is.

Marketing people write a lot more