New comment by OHfsfuiohsef in "Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I write specs in YAML"

OHfsfuiohsef — Sun, 03 May 2026 13:12:09 +0000

Continuous integration and demos to stakeholders (devs, designers, product managers etc) every 2 weeks - these practices are now engrained :-) It's frequent to then do corrections after these demos, and that really helps ensuring the product manager is getting what their customers need.

Easy to forget waterfall in 1970s / 80s really meant teams working on their own for months and then realizing there is no way to assemble the whole product from the parts. Or that the industry has moved on and the product is obsolete.

Agile as "devs can do what they want" never really existed ;-) Managers always have to plan / T-Shirt size resources (time, devs) to some degree. For stuff that's really hard to break into tasks, the magic word is "the plan is to do a POC first".

Coming from someone who also doesn't like teams being asked to break their unknowns into 30 known tasks. It's a compromise... I agree with all your points on how Agile is abused / misunderstood. Yet i believe in the progress from continuous integration and regular demos to stakeholders as a sign we did change something....

New comment by OHfsfuiohsef in "How Africans are changing French, one joke, rap and book at a time"

OHfsfuiohsef — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 02:18:39 +0000

Sounds like you're asking to talk to a girl named Lola, diminutive Lo. And the guy is like wondering if he remembers someone at the bar with that name or if he misheard you. But after he sees your hand gestuals, the meaning of your needs becomes clear. French and Italians are familiar with waiving hands and making facial expressions to accompany their words, so keep doing it, and be patient until your language skills improve. My first trips in Britain as a teenager, no one could understand me asking where the bathroom is (French is my mother tongue). Now that's not a fun one to use gestuals for. In time I got to learn about the John, loo. But hey, it's the fun about traveling in foreign land!

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New comment by OHfsfuiohsef in "Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I write specs in YAML"

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