Helping small to medium sized software companies scale up ⬆️ in my day job. Helping you on Twitter. AMA.
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Joined September 2022
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Scott Graves retweeted
Physicists think AI is physics.
Statisticians think AI is statistics.
Mathematicians think AI is mathematics.
Psychologists think AI is psychology.
Neuroscientists think AI is neuroscience.
And they’re all right.
Scott Graves retweeted
The artificial path to intelligence will be very different from the human one.
Scott Graves retweeted
The fact that the word ‘needy’ is such an insult speaks to how terrified we are of our own needs and dependence.
We are all needy when our needs are not met, just as we are all hungry when we go without food.
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America needs to de-emphasize intelligence and emphasize hard work and honesty.
We also need to glorify genius less and glorify average people more.
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Nice read on reverse engineering of GitHub Copilot 🪄. Copilot has dramatically accelerated my coding, it's hard to imagine going back to "manual coding". Still learning to use it but it already writes ~80% of my code, ~80% accuracy. I don't even really code, I prompt. & edit.
A while back I'd done some shallow reverse engineering of Copilot
Now I've done a deeper dive into Copilot's internals, built a tool to explore its code, and wrote a blog answering specific questions and pointing out some tidbits.
thakkarparth007.github.io/co…
Do read, might be fun!
Scott Graves retweeted
I wrote a VSCode extension that allows you to use ChatGPT within the context of your code 🔥
You can click on code blocks to paste them into the editor, or use a selected code snippet as a reference.
The extension is on GitHub if you want to check it out github.com/mpociot/chatgpt-v…
Scott Graves retweeted
Just 8% of CTOs are women. I'm not a CTO yet nor a man but @etdebruin invited me to speak anyway at the 7CTOs conference in San Diego today. Great decision on his part because honestly I'm brilliant and hilarious so these dudes are in for a treat. A TREAT.
#0111Conf
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When a big consultancy sells you @ScaledAgile, and the mere mention of SAFe makes you cringe, no need to fret. You're not going to get SAFe, you're going to get Waterfall 🤣
Scott Graves retweeted
Time and schedule pressures are universal, and will never wane. Developers are wrong to blame their poor software decisions upon those pressures.
The trick to going fast is to go well by making good decisions.
Scott Graves retweeted
Reflecting on a 30+ year career, I realize one of my super powers is asking for help. There’s so much change & so much to learn. A phrase I repeat often as I try to learn from others: “Treat me like I’m stupid.” This disarms my audience and puts me in a beginner’s mindset mode. – at Ullensaker, Norge
Scott Graves retweeted
When you look at failed-Agile orgs, the root problem is often that nobody on top trusts the people who do the work. If they'd understood that agility required giving up control, they'd have run in the other direction as fast as their little feet could take them.
Scott Graves retweeted
You can't solve "productivity problems" with surveillance. Try purpose & alignment instead. More work. Subtler. You may have to level up your storytelling.
Scott Graves retweeted
Software be hard sometimes
Scott Graves retweeted
Well, it took 29 years, but I finally watched the original Jurassic Park, a cautionary tale about understaffing your engineering department and letting people push code directly to prod.
Scott Graves retweeted
Helping people become as good as you are is a big part of _your_ job. Somebody always working alone, heads down, fingers to the keyboard, who can never be "interrupted" is a failure. 1/1
Scott Graves retweeted
You don't need to work in an office, you need a supportive, cooperative, and productive work environment. You can achieve that anywhere as long as you work with people who are on the same page.
