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@petrillic well that's six nauseating forms of horrifying in a hand basket

If anyone asks you to work 7 days a week, that should be a once a year thing for a genuinely urgent priority that is highly likely to materially impact humans imminently

Working 7 days a week is a Black Swan event: a rare exception, on the order of log4j or WannaCry

Not, for comparison, like weekly critical network security software vulnerabilities — ("Massive slam on Fortinet out of nowhere", said Gideon) — but for the unusual, atypical, anomalous catastrophes

Proposal to Unicode for a guillotine emoji

Eat the rich

It's French revolution time, baby

@JessTheUnstill honestly? if we replaced every manager with a quarter of a program manager, a therapist, a career coach, and a GenAI agent, we'd get....actually that's just a manager

@JessTheUnstill that's the secret, Jess, it was always vibe management

executive brains are literally composed of Markov neuron chains

In other news, I'd like to share that I measured a 100% gain in productivity after turning the lights on for a team that was previously operating entirely in darkness.

Though I still need to do some research to understand the Hawthorne effect
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect

If I had a penny for every time I heard something like

"We're going to track increases in productivity that we gain by adopting GenAI"

1. So you're assuming it's an increase
2. Against what control group
3. With no acknowledgement of confounding variables or experiment design
4. Around the...famously open problem of measuring software engineering productivity?