Mark Bennett

Improving decision making, innovation, and productivity through Systems Engineering + RL, Causal, Agentic, Physical Al

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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
- Joubert

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“Listen like you might be wrong” is a great perspective from Eckstein in his address at his Harvard graduation:

https://t.co/Qla0LqRHWa

[Mark Bennett @mpbennett]

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
- Joubert

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@SRUmberger @compactmag @johnbyronkuhner And, beyond any attempt at documenting those events, the poems simply tell us stories upon which we can reflect, asking what are the traits we think we admire or abhor and why.

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In addition, there’s a great opportunity to discover and consider what the centuries after the purported events described in the poems, the centuries that transpired before they were captured in writing, and the millennia afterward until recent translations all collectively influenced what we see today.

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@APompliano 💯 “If AI can make employees more productive, which is widely accepted as fact, then companies are going to want as many productive units of labor as possible. This is a key reason why I am changing my mind.”

I heard @edosegal say it this way:

“Do more with more.”

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@Grady_Booch Have you tried Perplexity, and if so, how was your experience?

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@Grady_Booch A) I will, hopefully in a couple of weeks
B) True

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Hi Grady, is it possible that @AndrewYNg is familiar with and appreciates your seminal and outstanding contributions to software engineering and is bringing it to a new audience that might not have seen or recognized its value? BTW, thank you so much for your work on OOD, UML, and software architecture!

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This is another example where mistaking productivity for value creation, which existed pre-AI, ends up being amplified

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opus 4.5 and codex 5.2 are causing mass psychosis on the TL right now where people are sharing and being shocked by the _performance of work_ rather than the _evidence of value being shipped to real users_. this will self-correct in 4-6 weeks.

same thing happened with other generational model releases like sonnet 4 and 3.5. The gains are real but you're currently at the peak of the hype cycle rather than the plateau of productivity.

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[NARRATOR]: BYD does not, in fact, build a car in 52 seconds.

Throughput =/= Cycle Time

https://t.co/B7lfcKcjKH

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@Hesamation “Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware is becoming faster.” - Nicklaus Wirth “A Plea for Lean Software” 1995

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💯 product/software is not a “one and done” event… if you want to last. Otherwise it’s simply what it appears to be: a cash grab if you’re selling it or a fragile artifact if you’re building it internally. Production/Software quality is a never ending cycle of discovery, design/refactor, delivery, repeat.

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@AJamesMcCarthy @BlackGryph0n Fantastic photo and impressive effort and planning! Any thoughts on doing a mini-documentary of the process?

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@Zephyr_hg IDEAS

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@rohanpaul_ai While it’s understandable why this happens, the risk is a “hollowing out” of your talent pipeline. Who advances to the senior position if there’s limited opportunity for junior employees to grow? “The Skill Code” by @mattbeane explains this as well as possible solutions

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@rohanpaul_ai One could consider that fun comes about even when something is hard when you’re in Csikszentmihalyi’s “flow” state, ie your capability is matched well with the difficulty of the (in this case) learning task

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@rohanpaul_ai I agree that real learning takes effort (ie “hard”) however “hard” == “not fun” is not necessarily the case. Eg building physical strength is considered hard, but some think of it as fun. I believe focusing on your future self can help make the effort fun.