Team Leadership for developers is at a very tricky point right now. We have had code generators in the past that improved developers’ work, but we would never compare a developer to a generator. But now, agents and application generation are letting those thoughts permeate into our minds as we work and lead our team. It’s easy to show up to a meeting, now, and have a user type in a prompt, during a meeting,…
I tried out Claude Design this weekend. Pretty cool, lots of fun. I thought I’d build a presentation with it. I got pretty excited as I worked through it, and then after a few hours of work, I hit my weekly usage limit. One presentation, 32 slides, 2 hours of work – usage limits hit for the week. No deep thinking on learning. Does it mean it’s a bad product? No, I just didn’t plan…
In University, I took a critical thinking course with a slant towards Psychology. Others took critical thinking courses with a slant towards Philosophy. I’m sure there are other options out there. Regardless, they were two (separate) books, you had to pore through. They weren’t easy reads, and they made you question many things. But they taught me how to approach problems, how to break things down, how to make the complex simplified. In the age…
When I was stuck on a level in a game, magazines and instruction booklets that came with the game were my way through; they were the walkthrough I needed to get there. I still had to do the work, but I had the path forward; now I just had to take it. Just because we all have AI, don’t discount the use of giving your users a walkthrough – they still want to be able…
If you can’t tell me what it does, then it doesn’t matter what the fix is, we have a much bigger problem. And that is, we don’t know what it does. Whether it’s you, AI, or Fred at the coffee shop, you need to know what it does. Base metric.