2026-08-05 20:57 UTC
Worth a watch I think: Dave Farley and The Real Threat of AI
"help guide [..] is part of our duty of care as software professionals"
"you just need three things: capability, autonomy, and our own carelessness"
"whether the software understands what it is doing is a philosophy seminar question. Whether it can do damage is an engineering question"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRF99to28sA
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@RuthMalan@mastodon.social 2026-08-05 21:04
"When you treat human beings as interchangeable typing machines, you forget what software engineering actually is. THE HARD PART OF BUILDING SOFTWARE WAS NEVER THE TYPING. It is understanding the problem, designing a coherent solution, and taking responsibility for the result." - Modern Software Engineering on LI (Dave Farley) Source: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/modern-software-engineering_softwareengineering-techleadership-teambuilding-activity-7488552748091863040-cdJn