James’ Thoughts

Fifty years ago, Fred Brooks wrote about the challenges of building large, complex software projects; his most famous assertion: “Adding engineers to a late software project makes it later.”

Twenty-five years ago, Joel Spolsky wrote that the single worst strategic mistake any software company can make is rewriting the product from scratch.

The two-pizza team isn’t dead—it just needs different toppings.

Frontier conversational large language models (LLMs) are the closest implementation of the fictional Star Trek “Computer” I’ve yet to experience.

This is Part 5 of 5 of my 2025 AI Wrapped series.

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You’ve either asked this question or someone has asked you: “Do you know a good __?”