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Friday 24th March 2023 - AIs, LLMs and the Phoenix Project

Hello and welcome to another weekend! As we continue to ride the AI hype train - I give you three things to think about this week. Firstly, AI is a massive industry all of a sudden. It's sucking in all the talent in a global gold rush. This is explored in the article Risk of Industrial Capture...

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4 days ago • 2 min read

Friday 24th March 2023: AIs, LLMs and the Phoenix Project

Software Delivery Club Newsletter 2023-03-17

A few months ago I started writing a piece of software called "CTO Game" and the idea was this - you take the place of the CTO in a software development organisation and you have to juggle the build, development, test and release of a new software product to the market without going bust. I'm...

11 days ago • 2 min read

Software Delivery Club Newsletter 2023-03-04

Can you believe it's March already? How is your year getting on? It was spring break/voorjaarsvakantie this week in the Netherlands and I used this time to visit family in the UK for a few days. A well-deserved and enjoyable break but it wasn't totally spent out of the office. I've been looking...

24 days ago • 1 min read

Software Delivery Club Newsletter 2023-02-24

Nobody started programming because they wanted to be an Engineering Manager." I found this the funniest (and most tragic) line I read this week goes to Marijo Glavaš on LinkedIn. Why do I think this is tragic? Well, it's because I've been there - I've been at that point where you're neither a...

about 1 month ago • 2 min read

Software Delivery Club Newsletter 2023-02-17

There was no newsletter last week because I was still processing the previous weekend at FOSDEM. It was an interesting few days for sure and I was glad to attend but it certainly gave me a lot of food for thought. I first presented (or at least stood behind a desk and talked to people about)...

about 1 month ago • 2 min read

Software Delivery Club Newsletter 2023-02-03

We made it out of January! Welcome to the end of the week. What did we learn this week? That ChatCPT is going commercial, and so is the Twitter API. https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt-plus/ The new subscription plan, ChatGPT Plus, will be available for $20/month, and subscribers will receive a...

about 2 months ago • 1 min read

Software Delivery Club Newsletter 2023-01-27

We're almost at the end of January - deep breath. Another busy week as I prepare for an upcoming talk all about Rosegarden: A Slumbering Giant at FOSDEM '23 in Brussels in just over a week's time. In the talk I'll be exploring the motivations that a couple of young coders had for starting a...

about 2 months ago • 2 min read

Software Delivery Club Newsletter 2023-01-20

This has been a tough week for many in tech. Mass layoffs announced by Google, Facebook and Microsoft total over 30,000. Many commentators seem to think that Elon Musk's approach to his takeover has given carte blanche to tech leaders to swing the axe with the year-end review process. Also this...

2 months ago • 2 min read

Software Delivery Club Newsletter 2023-01-13

Week 2 is the first real week of the year. It certainly felt like it to me. I've been researching the idea of "engineering culture". The need for us to somehow achieve a state of excellence that means we can express ourselves joyfully through our work. This seems to be a satisfactory definition...

2 months ago • 1 min read

Software Delivery Club Newsletter 2023-01-06

Happy New Year! I hope that you've had a nice relaxing holiday period and are ready to start tackling 2023. I was away for a few days over the period and came back to the office this week to catch up with some great podcasts and videos. I've linked a few below and can thoroughly recommend the...

3 months ago • 2 min read

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