Dan Stroot

Recently, Anthropic published a paper on multi-agent failure modes].

The Agile Manifesto was written in 2001 in response to heavyweight, process-centric software development.

87% of digital workers now use AI at work. 75% say it makes them more productive, but some of the gains are being swallowed by a new, largely invisible AI tax, e.g.

As AI compresses the effort required to write code, the non-coding portions of software development consume a larger percentage of total effort.

Who takes accountability when AI systems fail?

Like everyone, I'm very curious to see how AI is going to impact individual jobs as well as overall organizational models.

Do you remember when you first saw the movie The Matrix, and Neo learns Kung Fu, or Trinity learns to fly a helicopter just by uploading a new skill?

Whether you’re prompting a large language model or asking a colleague for help, the quality of the context you provide is often the difference between getting what you want, or not.

The importance of a differentiated data model is rising dramatically.

How many of us have experienced team building that left feeling like it was a waste of time and money?

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Last week OpenAI published a report detailing why AI models hallucinate.

Shopify Chief Executive Tobi Lütke sent an internal memo that said Shopify won’t make new hires unless managers can prove artificial intelligence isn’t capable of doing the job.

Businesses don’t always realize as they grow and mature they add “weight”, or more accurately, “mass”.

“The Stargate Project is a new company which intends to invest $500 billion over the next four years building new AI infrastructure for OpenAI in the United States.

We are increasingly aware of the basic risks associated with artificial intelligence (AI), such as generating harmful advice, producing buggy code, and spreading inaccurate (or misleading) information.

Customer care is undergoing a transformation unlike anything we've seen before.

Gardeners don't 'create' or 'produce' tomatoes.

If you are bored and disgusted by politics and don't bother to vote, you are in effect increasing the value of someone else's vote.

Today I read that hospitals in Germany said they would cancel elective procedures; in Britain, some doctors in the National Health Service were unable to gain access to systems.

According to Ben Horowitz "peacetime" and "wartime" CEOs require radically different management styles.

I once worked with an organization that developed five year strategic plans, while at the same time teaching its employees that we live in volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) world.

Optimism often requires believing in unknown, unspecified future breakthroughs — which seems fanciful and naive.

Do you how bees communicate with each other to share information about food sources?

Charlie Munger has been Warren Buffet’s partner since he joined Berkshire Hathaway as a vice chairman in 1978.

When hiring software engneers I look beyond technical talent.

Companies say they want engaged employees.

Having worked in financial services for most of my career I want to share some the software engineering challenges that are associated with tracking and moving money digitally.

We think that generative AI creativity is limited by its training data and algorithms, and therefore can produce technically proficient content, but not truly novel and innovative content.

The Biden administration has collected “voluntary commitments” from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Microsoft, Meta and Amazon to pursue shared AI safety and transparency goals ahead of a planned executive order.

Corporate bullsh*t can be a handy supply of manure for fertilizing new ideas and innovation.

Joel Spolsky (of Fog Creek Software and Stack Overflow) describes system re-writes as “the single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make”.

“We just landed one of the biggest deals in our company’s history.

Bob joined the company six months ago.

I wrotes these principles down in 2015.

“Companies that make software must have the freedom to innovate, but they must also be held liable when they fail to live up to the duty of care they owe consumers, businesses, or critical infrastructure providers.

When an engineer designs a bridge, they begin with the load the bridge is intended to bear, and they calculate the various stresses caused by wind, earthquakes, etc.

What are the differences between a committee and a working group?

The big news in 2022 has been the rise of “generative” AI models.

Jeff Bezos: I very frequently get the question: “What’s going to change in the next 10 years?”

Anyone who has ever been responsible for supporting production systems learns many valuable things along the way.

In late 2021 Facebook rebranded itself Meta, reorganizing around a single concept: the metaverse.

I recently read the book "How Buildings Learn" by Stewart Brand.

The way programming is taught is usually aligned to how computers work (why variables are 16, 32 or 64 bits) and language constructs and syntax.

Microservices exist because teams want to make their own choices, dislike code review or overbearing ‘architects’ above them, and to a lesser extent want to try different and newer languages.

Lately, everyone seems to want to talk about technology risk.

Most company values are just a bunch of undifferentiated "nice things".

Paul Graham is one of the best-known VC success stories, and is a founder of Y Combinator.

Bloomberg installed a framed New Yorker cartoon in every conference room in its New York headquarters that reads: “I know we didn’t accomplish anything, but that’s what meetings are for.”

When building a new product, we all know we should remain agile and launch something small and simple to start.