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#2I get it. This is roughly me, I don't always have the best answers, but I know most things can always be done better. I've coined a few different terms over the years such as "marketing driven development" when I wind up working in places where the marketing team is driving the devs off a cliff, and pushing new features at the expense of ever having time to deal with technical debt. The industry really needs "Tech Debt Thursdays" or something.
There's always way more work to do and those key enhancements or research stories that could improve everything get deprioritized.
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#4> The difference between “annoying senior sysadmin” and “good consultant” is often just whether you’re in a room that opted in.
So much that. No one likes "drive-by advice" - if you want something to be fixed, there should be a person responsible for that. Maybe it's you doing all the work, or you convincing management, or management who is asking for an advice... But if you are just saying "we should fix FOO by doing this and that" with no plans as to whom those "we" are, it's only annoying.
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#5Communication bandwidth is a finite resource, as several years of managers have reminded me.
(Although, it's worth noting that in this era of more remote work, perhaps a little more read-in and context is useful to avoid burning time on back-and-forths that used to take minutes in front of someone's desk but can now take hours over Slack).
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#6I get it. This is roughly me, I don't always have the best answers, but I know most things can always be done better. I've coined a few different terms over the years such as "marketing driven development" when I wind up working in places where the marketing team is driving the devs off a cliff, and pushing new features at the expense of ever having time to deal with technical debt. The industry really needs "Tech De…
I didn't RTFA - just responding to you:
> Tech Debt Thursdays
Yes, "Fix it Fridays" is another alliteration.
Have you ever heard the phrase "man your battle stations"? Turns out in the US Navy there is also "cleaning stations" and there is a call for all hands to cleaning stations on the regular. I have proposed something similar on a few teams I've been on. Daily won't work and quarterly is too long. The problem is the sprawl that comes from cleaning up things that have unintended side effects. But yes, paying the interest on the tech debt needs to be normalized across our industry.
https://www.navy.mil/Press-Office/News-Stories/display-news/...
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"AI detectors" are snake oil. https://mitsloanedtech.mit.edu/ai/teach/ai-detectors-dont-wo...
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#8Everyone can talk and give opinions. The real question is if you can actually make a difference. I tell people there's a gap between knowing how to do something and actually doing it. And that gap is a big part of our engineering skills.
If I'm not going to change something, I'd rather not talk or give opinions.
Related: https://strangestloop.io/essays/things-that-arent-doing-the-...
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#9Strategically, “stop talking” means nothing unless you would otherwise be slamming out ideas. You don’t need people who don’t talk, we have plants for that. You need your silence to say something.