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1 month ago

Greg Thomas

Small Team, Big Leaps

Small teams make bigger strides. It’s the problem of team development that we’ve been trying to solve for decades. I think it’s because of focus, they look at a problem, discuss options, and iterate towards a solution. They don’t care about what they don’t or what might not work; they just care about seeing if they can do it. When you get bigger, you think more about what you might impact before diving into fixing the problem. This is why AI scares many. You chat with Claude or ChatGPT, one view into solving a problem, and they just go, they

1 month ago

Greg Thomas

Create a Learning Plan to Move Forward

Every day in my inbox, on LinkedIn, and everywhere else is an onslaught of everything I have to learn. If you aren’t already focused on your own plan, these onslaughts will derail anything of what you are hoping to accomplish. Breathe, make a plan, allow for change, but not a complete redirect, and grow. There is so much out there to learn right now; whatever you learn will be beneficial to the path you’re on.

1 month ago

Greg Thomas

The Time Machine

Time Machines don’t exist; if they did, this post would have a different ending. And yet we hope they do for that one chance to go back and make a change that might completely change our life, but in the movies, it drastically alters everything about who we are.  And since we don’t have Time Machines, it’s hard to know if this is fact or fiction (currently the latter). You can’t change what happened, but you can change and influence what happens next. You don’t need to go back in time; you already know the answer of what you need

1 month ago

Greg Thomas

Who gets the “Cool” work?

If you can’t trust your team to do the boring, grunt, not that much interesting work to the best of their abilities, and pass in top-notch code and effort. Then they definitely should not be working on the cool stuff. Grunt work is the litmus test for whether they can handle the cool stuff.

2 months ago

Greg Thomas

You have Reached your Limit

I read the other day that the worst message Vibe Coders can receive in building their apps is – “You have Reached your Limit”. And then that is it for the next 4 – 8 hours if you wait for it to reset. The difference in developers is that their limit goes on far longer. We hit walls, and we keep going. We can’t find the answer, it spurs us on. Fuelled by tokens, no thanks, caffeine will do just fine (or possibly pizza, but Thai food works too). I’ve hit “reached your limit” and it wasn’t from tokens. Don’t