tagged AI

11 posts

How to think like a product manager

The AI acceleration has given a lot of software orgs fairly dramatic balancing problems; the coding output is vastly higher - but that means that every other process in the life cycle of software also needs rescaling and reconsidering - it's exactly like the fact that traffic...

AI vs Math vs P vs NP

Now that the robots have started attacking the Clay Mathematics millenium problems it's interesting when they'll get to P vs NP - you might ask, when they'll take this interest in...

Even the APIs are below the API

When Github ended it's life as an independent company and became just a product in Microsoft's AI business last fall it all seemed a bit premature - Github an AI product? Why cannibalise...

Is software still a career?

A few months back I wrote a comment on LinkedIn to a young person who was giving up on learning to be a software professional - I suggested that it was to soon to give up on software -...

Some bad takes from the internet

It's all about risks The maker of Keras argues that nothing has changed in SaaS Here's what's wrong in the argument - it's a contorted form of survivor bias. It's absolutely true that...

Triviality tests and the sycophancy problem

Maybe you're familiar with the concept of a triviality test in political debate. It's really simple - it involves asking yourself the question: Would anyone disagree with this? Think...

Software 2.5, Software 3.0 and Software 3.5

A couple of weeks ago Andrej Karpathy generated a ton of buzz with a talk where he presented the idea of Software 3.0 - describing LLMs as the next revolution of computers and...