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Tech Leader & Software Engineer • Tech and Teams, Extreme Programming, Java • Security for AI at Mindgard. Previously Snyk, Unruly • Writes things at http://benjiweber.com/blog
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Any asshole can build an org where the smartest, most experienced engineers in the world can get shit done.
A truly great engineering org is one where normal, workaday software engineers, with decent skills and ordinary experience, can move fast, ship code, and move the business forward day by day.
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Katie!! I'm a psychologist with expertise in achievement who literally studies software teams and I can absolutely promise you not only is it not true, it's rooted in extremely biased individualistic ability myths and incredibly bad evidence. I wrote about it in this paper:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJV-...
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Most of the time teams know what to do to achieve better quality. But the bulk of the causes for low quality belong to the system and thus lie beyond the power of the teams.
Yet, leadership hire coaches for the teams. Not for leadership 🤷
That won’t change anything.
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But the more you understand that the majority of the data sets used to train machine learning algorithms are only ever replicating and laundering existing human biases, the more you see the unique paradox of automation bias: we believe we’re circumventing bias when really we are reifying it.
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Yep that works for me, though looks like you might want to set the redirect to https instead of http to avoid round trip / https-only problems.
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Your webserver probably does though. 301 Moved Permanently time?
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Does udm=14 still work on your side of the A/B test?
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For me the link in the post text works, but for some reason the embed card links to matthewskelton.com/keyno
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arxiv.org/abs/2501.08365
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Ed: Aside, I think AI use for building software & AI systems is only going to increase the need for effective practise and learning from incidents as people won't be building context as they write the software in the same way.
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"the incident took longer because..." [ Prompts for post mortems to encourage thinking about what made the incident difficult can be powerful.
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"top engineering organizations do post mortems because they work" "where should we start? Postmortems"
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Ed: Aside, I think AI use for building software & AI systems is only going to increase the need for effective practise and learning from incidents as people won't be building context as they write the software in the same way.
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"the more the team knows about [their systems] the better they can respond"
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"train before" [ to help everyone stay calm and effective in real incidents]
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"different people bring different skills" [ you need good Comms, calm facilitation, technical expertise , customer context]
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"teams that learn from incidents together, get better together" [and get better at all their work, not just incident response]
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"prepare for incidents before they happen" [don't be figuring out your processes from first principles during an incident]
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"we need an OpenEmissionsMap like OpenStreetMap"