jasenko.bsky.social
Founder and CTO of Taldea ( https://www.taldea.ai/home ).
Engineer at heart, pushing the boundaries of native cloud-based technologies, especially in software testing domain. Feel free to get in touch!
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Increasingly? I´d been suspecting it ever since that "Bridget Hyacinth" (or whatever the account name was) started showing up in everyone's feeds. Years in the making.
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Great! Now you have a top performer in code-reviews. But now - she or he may be less available for pair programming sessions, or otherwise helping the more junior people on the team. The team performance will be impacted. But, at least you've got great "DX" metrics, right? (5/5).
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Secondly, these micro-KPIs will almost certainly amplify competition for prestige and rewards within the team. It's easy for a senior dev to get out on top by number of code reviews done, or a similar one-dimensional measure. This will come at the expense of the team performance (4/5) .
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Firstly, measuring by proxy encourages managers to isolate themselves from the day-to-day team environment and thus likely make more mistakes in evaluating individual and team performances. (3/5)
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Example: asking developers a vague question, such as if their code reviews were being done quickly, a subjective assessment by any measure, is quite the opposite of fostering close collaboration and building a team which has "jelled" together (2/5).
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Kudos for labeling, but it would have been better to hold a higher standard than that and call it an advertisement. You're not just some "content creator" after all, I still have an early edition of your book. Here is a few more thoughts below, with regards to your question (1/5)
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Sure you don't ;)
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Sorry, it's a bit hard to take sponsored content seriously. But if your sponsor had allowed it, I guess you could have asked if the proxy metrics they are basing their core business on, were not in fact heavily detrimental to every single one of the principles of the "agile software development".
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You know most of the folks answering those surveys will not be completely honest for fear of the answers being misused by the org, right? But at least you got "sponsored to grill the CEO", which sounds like peek integrity right there, doesn't it?
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Unfortunately - not really. We have it turned off for everyone and its still offering useless "help" like summarising 10-line emails and such.
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You have, for the lack of a better pun, hit the nail right on the head - presumably with the proverbial hammer ;)
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Yeah obviously - that was a dumb question to ask, not sure what I was thinking there :)
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Nice, thanks for confirming my assumption. I'll definitely put some time aside to try it out. I was wondering if you were planning to add GraphQL support down the road too? Granted it's a problem of a slightly different order of magnitude ;)
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In a way it is really like that. And in it's own way, it is as beautiful as that picture as well ;)
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With a very notable differentiation though - The SO was extremely useful AND relevant for a long stretch of time (perhaps it still is). Expert-Exchange on the other hand introduced a paywall early on and .... well I don't know anyone telling endearing stories about it.
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I remember this and funnily enough, I think it was one of the first websites to start introducing the infamous paywalls around the community content. Remember when such websites were but a rare occurrence on the Internet, right? Of course in the end you'd be just skipping their links every time.
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First off, a very cool plugin! Am I correctly understanding that: the initial/refresh CI runs are used to capture the actual real test data from the real endpoint(s) > which is in turn end up being replicated during the mock runs with the mocked endpoint?
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The magic thinking of your counterpart aside, the whole paradigm of VC-supported companies burning immorally high sums of money over extended periods of time is precisely what normalised such thinking. Should we not push to regulate such businesses as being generally net-negative for the society?
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They do have a potential in assisting with tasks inside a *closed context*. The developer assistance tools seem to be picking up, as do applications in biomedical research. However using them in open-context environments is definitely a dead-end, these tools do not possess actual knowledge.
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Is it just me or does that tag line sound a bit like it was generated by ChatGPT?
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I was around 12, if I remember correctly. Perhaps not a typical hello world - tt was a simple branching programme, comparing two numbers provided as input and then printing out an answer based the comparison outcome.
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Bring back the ICQ ;)