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Month: September 2021

Why Scaling Agile is not Easy

January 23, 2022September 8, 2021 by Simon Fabri

Agile was developed as a way of organising work in a team. But does agile scale across the whole enterprise?

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What does #artificial_intelligence mean for the future of work? Well, it rather depends on whether you take a short-term or a long-term view. #FutureOfWork https://www.thesandreckoner.co.uk/ai-and-the-future-of-work/

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Product management for AI agents is easily the wildest form of product management in history.

Typical product management is trying to figure out how to design interfaces and software for people to interact with deterministic systems. The user generally knows all the context to

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One of the most lucid assessments on the impact of #AI on #SoftwareEngineering from the (now ex-CEO of GitHub. The near-limitless scaling of agentic coding boggles the mind. #GitHubCopilot #AgenticAI

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GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke on Copilot, vibe coding, and AI’s next chapter https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-with-nilay-patel/720075/github-ceo-thomas-dohmke-ai-coding-copilot-openai-interview

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Looking at the GPT-5 system card, hallucinations (as % of responses with 1+ major incorrect claim) are 4.9% vs 22% in ChatGPT-o3. More than 1 in 5?? for o3? Sycophancy is reportedly down too - will see how it feels....

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