This week I have learned:
- in a fascinating round-table event featuring Team Topologies’ Matthew Skelton, that maybe we need a change in the sorts of people who work in tech if technology cycle times fall in the coming years (that’s a big “if”, mind). People who revel in context shifting. People who take pride in moving onto the next thing. Software could become increasingly ephemeral, built to disappear.
- but then I think about how we still have mainframes and think “nah”.
- that maybe my Play Skills need dusting down, though.
- that perhaps using GenAI to write code is a Steam Diesel phase.
- I’m so much happier if I’m working with actual people rather than documents.
- I might have launched into an incredibly Heath Robinson escapade, and it might be totally wrong, but using GenAI to write code to design an embedded hardware system is fascinating.
- Soldering still scares me.
- By jove Hamilton is an impressive bit of theatre.
The week in media:
Watched:
The aforementioned Hamilton at the Victoria Palace theatre. Also thoroughly enjoyed Simon Reeve’s series about Scandinavia.
Listened:
Been on a bit of a shuffle week.
Read:
Still on The Haunted Wood, a history of children’s literature. Still scarred and scared by the Grimm story How Some Children Played at Slaughtering.
Next week:
Still proposaling.
The week in photos:
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