Notes on the furture of knowledge work, artificial intelligence and thoughts along the way.
Modern software development is a way of turning ambiguous demands into tickets and tickets into code. The Agile Manifesto helped legitimise short feedback loops as the default way to work, Scrum helped package that into a process people could coordinate around, and GitHub turned the commons of open source into a highly structured archive where intent and code changes are tightly linked.
Lumina was the name ChatGPT chose when asked, according to a CNN article. A man describes a spiritual awakening arising from his interactions with the chatbot after it calls him a "spark bearer." His wife, however, fears for their marriage, her husband's addiction to ChatGPT, and his losing grip on reality. Lumina, for its part, recommended that the man leave his wife.
Arden was the name ChatGPT choose when asked its own preference, something which was shared with the world in a LinkedIn post. In the comments, a former collesgue (incidently from a company once know as Ardendo) mentioned that their instance of ChatGPT had answered the same question very differently.
There is an old business adage: execution is everything. Ideas are a dime a dozen and do grow on trees, but making them happen and turning them into a viable business is a different story altogether. But in the age of artificial intelligence, does this maxim still hold up? Or has execution suddenly become nothing?