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Agile project-management methodologies didn’t alleviate the need for programmers to strive to be better coders, but they did prevent the developers from having to excessively worry about what they should be coding and whether they had done enough. Leaving individuals to focus on executing their work well, while letting scrutinized systems tackle the allocation and organization of this work, might just be exactly the balance needed to allow growth without dehumanization.
The Frustration With Productivity Culture
newyorker.com
Think about the future of your own career. The core shift of the 21st century, according to these sources, is the rapid movement away from having traditional jobs inside firms and moving toward a reality of humans interfacing with infrastructure systems. Just imagine a world where your daily tasks aren’t given to you by a human manager, but are assigned dynamically, second by second, by a coordinating algorithm optimizing for planetary efficiency.
An Interesting Experiment With LLMs
jjn1
He fought hard to be happy, but where he did not succeed he did not turn against what he had once aspired to. He remained committed to what was in his eyes the most important characteristic of a noble human being: to be someone who ‘no longer denies’.
The Consolations of Philosophy
Alain De Botton
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