For reference, here's all the Agile you need, it's 4 sentences:

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

Working software over comprehensive documentation

Customer collaboration over contract negotiation

Responding to change over following a plan

The real problem is that capital-A Agile is not agile at all, but exactly the opposite: A fat process that enforces following a plan (regular, rigid meeting structure), creating comprehensive documentation (user stories, specs, mocks, task board) and contract negotiation (estimation meetings, planning poker). It's a bastardization of the original idea, born by process first people who tried to copy the methods of successful teams without understanding them.

The failure modes were multiple: - Facts rarely exist in a vacuum but have lots of subtlety - Inferring facts from conversation has a gazillion failure modes, especially irony and sarcasm lead to hilarious outcomes (joking about a sixpack with a fat buddy -> "XYZ is interested in achieving an athletic form"), but even things as simple as extracting a concrete date too often go wrong - Facts are almost never as binary as they seem. "ABC has the flights booked for the Paris trip". Now I decided afterwards to continue to New York to visit a friend instead of going home and completely stumped the agent.

Also, it's based on 2021 (or before) storage cost figures, which have halved in the meantime. https://assets.bbhub.io/professional/sites/44/LCOE-11.png

I call BS.

All of that fully decentralized, within the next years instead of decades, with distributed (not megacorp) ownership AND not having every other of these megaprojects cancelled due to protests.

And that figure doesn't even include externalized cost like national/environmental security or decommissioning costs.

Nuclear is riding a dead horse in 2026.

The correct answer is: ALWAYS lie about your past compensation. It's the only way to get forward, one way or the other.

Getting rid of radiologists is as much nonsense and saber rattling as suggesting using AI would harm patients.

The answer is clearly just the same as in software development or any other AI impacted field: Let the best professionals handle 10x+ the volume. What that means for all the rest of employees is the question of the century though...

— Erdogan, probably.

https://www.thesaasnews.com/news/databricks-raises-1b-series...

Technical awe at this marvel aside that cracks the 50th percentile of HLE, the snarky part of me says there’s only half the danger in giving something away nobody can run at home anyway…

That’s what I get for carrying only Apple gear in the thousands of euros with me.

If there's an approach to model imho it's the Norwegian one: Actually backed by stocks, but managed and distributed by a central investment fund. It's far easier if the country is smart enough to centralize oil profits as well though...

Interestingly, there seem to be some indications showing that human interventions by modern technology already show clear evolutionary trends: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5338417/

Humans might eventually evolve to not even being able to be born naturally anymore at some point.

"ReLU-KAN: New Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks that Only Need Matrix Addition, Dot Multiplication, and ReLU" https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.02075#

https://www.powerengineeringint.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/... https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7c/3-Learni...

By the decade is gone that any new nuclear project has been commissioned and built, the rest of the world is running on solar + battery storage at a tenth of the price.

(Or 160,9 kilometers.)