@foone 13 milliseconds to a stationary observer.

@jonny Design by contract, design your tests during your architecture design phase. Write in Spark Ada and question all your life choices forever.

@jonny

Thus spake the Master Programmer:

"When a program is being tested, it is too late to make design changes."

• The Tao Of Programming, Chapter 3

@jonny

When the Master asked about this, the novice became indignant. "Don't be so impatient," he said, "I'll put in the financial stuff eventually."

• The Tao Of Programming, koan 5.3

@jonny

A novice programmer was once assigned to code a simple financial package.

The novice worked furiously for many days, but when his Master reviewed his program, he discovered it contained a screen editor, a set of generalized graphics routines, and an artificial intelligence interface, but not the slightest hint of anything financial.

@jonny @Taweret @starkraving666 This is very often the case. Of course, with a large company, it's impossible to have a reasonable idea of what any given employee does. You may (or may not) be shocked how few CEOs understand the role their product plays for the people who consume it. It's not relevant for them, apparently.

@jonny @Taweret @starkraving666

Further discussion of AI displacing employees.

The reason CEOs think that AI can do so many jobs is because CEO's think:

1. That CEOs are the most valuable & hard working employee
2. CEOs recognize that AIs can replace them
3. Therefore, AIs should be able to replace most if not all white-collar employees underneath them.

#2 is related to me by a C-suite employee who has heard this from multiple CEOs.

@nat Oh my. Do you have a link to the data? Would like to do some more digging.

@NanoRaptor @foone I’ve got an RJ45 jack at the base of my skull. Well, a tattoo of one.