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@Clundoff@wandering.shop

2026-07-18 23:21 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.sprawl.club/@ludicity/116939432745772414 #IT Part of me wants desperately to beg this person and this company to hire me. The thing is, though, that after 25 years in IT, I have seen so many managerial fixations on quick and magical “fixes” (my usual example is Agile, which works as advertised in endless presentations only under highly rarified conditions which are not available on over 90% or so of enterprise level software projects), that I don’t know what it will take to let go of this one. Great analysis, though! 👍🏻

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  • @jappel@wandering.shop 2026-07-19 00:47

    @Clundoff@wandering.shop I think we are actually at the beginning of the end, for the simple reason that as soon as the AI companies tried charging something closer to what they need to in order to simply break even, the users' costs skyrocketed. CFOs started getting involved and saying "What did we get for the $25 million we spent last *month*?" When good answers weren't forthcoming, because they don't exist, companies started putting limits on LLM usage. 1/

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  • @Clundoff@wandering.shop I swear to goddamn god once I finally retire, I'm never going to want to hear the word 'agile' again. >_< Signed: QA Engineer with years on end of being on teams that go "But We Have To Be AGILE" while at the same time locking you to 2-week sprints, hard stop, required standups and retros and in-depth planning sessions to nail down the exact minutia of what you're going to do in the next five minutes, all of which IS NOT THE SLIGHTEST BIT AGILE and AUGH.

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