Meanwhile, 55 years ago
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I highly recommend reading this book, it’s extremely relevant today—notably it doesn’t matter what your stance is on “AI”.
Programming is an inherently human and social activity; it doesn’t matter if you’re a solo programmer, working with a team or using chatbots, or a combination of all of this.
@thomasfuchs if only more organizations made Programming a Social Activity instead of an Antisocial one.
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Meanwhile, 55 years ago
@thomasfuchs and here we are, again. With the help of our friend, AI
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I highly recommend reading this book, it’s extremely relevant today—notably it doesn’t matter what your stance is on “AI”.
Programming is an inherently human and social activity; it doesn’t matter if you’re a solo programmer, working with a team or using chatbots, or a combination of all of this.
TY for the recc.
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Meanwhile, 55 years ago
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@thomasfuchs indeed; @grimalkina has a book coming out soon about psychology of programming teams that has some recent research as well
@Gizmo @thomasfuchs I read Weinberg as part of my pre-book research. Some nice team stuff, a great counter to the pretty individualistic models of other books of the era. Pretty outdated psych theories though! As evidenced by the somewhat shocking mention of "latent homosexuality" that I can't believe they didn't edit out in later editions. Anyway, I hope mine is a good update. A big reference list to browse comes with it!
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@Gizmo @thomasfuchs I read Weinberg as part of my pre-book research. Some nice team stuff, a great counter to the pretty individualistic models of other books of the era. Pretty outdated psych theories though! As evidenced by the somewhat shocking mention of "latent homosexuality" that I can't believe they didn't edit out in later editions. Anyway, I hope mine is a good update. A big reference list to browse comes with it!
@grimalkina @Gizmo obviously has to be seen as an artifact of its time! looking forward to your book
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Meanwhile, 55 years ago
The fact that I can read and decipher cobol, plus the fact that menopause has provided neck hair, ie proto neckbeard, y’all…I may have become a Tech Final Boss.
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Meanwhile, 55 years ago
@thomasfuchs One of the advantages I have in not falling for the current "AI" scam is that I have *twice* been employed by companies that promised people they could write programs without programmers.
Mostly I was employed to clean up the ensuing mess, but it remains an attractive idea to people who don't know the history of it. -
I highly recommend reading this book, it’s extremely relevant today—notably it doesn’t matter what your stance is on “AI”.
Programming is an inherently human and social activity; it doesn’t matter if you’re a solo programmer, working with a team or using chatbots, or a combination of all of this.
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I highly recommend reading this book, it’s extremely relevant today—notably it doesn’t matter what your stance is on “AI”.
Programming is an inherently human and social activity; it doesn’t matter if you’re a solo programmer, working with a team or using chatbots, or a combination of all of this.
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Meanwhile, 55 years ago
hell, most executives don't even read reports or emails, much less lots of code.
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