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Since I started to see people use AI to build digital products something has always rubbed me the wrong way. It is like we are forgetting value, outcomes or impact and just keep clapping for the output. Token-maxing is real and I often have a hard time reaching through to people with this message, just because we are so happy that we close more (and bigger) pull requests. Let’s not forget that.…
I’ve written a few posts on AI and how it changes the flow of value, looking at it using my Theory of Constraints glasses. But are we really moving up in the value chain or is it actually deskilling and we end up baby-sitting an AI robot? You can find them here, if you want: What is throughput in our domain Theory of constrains in an AI world AI as robots - haven’t I been here before? But I had a…
The revolution, well paradigm shift rather, we are experiencing in AI has a likening with how industrial robots made a paradigm shift in the manufacturing industry in the 80-ies. Both when it comes to how it was introduced, the fears it raised, the mistakes “we” did utilizing the power and how the winners ended up using them. Now, I’m old but in the 1980-ies I was 10 years old and more interested…
AI is arguably one of the biggest paradigm shifts in the digital product development industry ever. Even if it stopped right now with Fable 5, we still would have changed so much that the before feel like a distant past. Writing the code by hand? Please... A discussion with a friend, that works in manufacturing industry, made me reflect over this paradigm shift. It reminds me a lot about the…
The world of digital product development has changed forever with the advent of AI models like Opus (that was the first to make me realize this). In fact, many other industries have also changed, but I’m going to stick with what I know. And ever since I started to realize that code will be written by agents that instruct I immediately got a sense that we (the industry) are making age-old mistakes…
Over the years I have grown tired of the tightness in how we talk about our jobs, achievements and careers in general at LinkedIn. I poked a bit of fun to it by writing a different type of profile section. Being a Swede I find it really embarrassing toothing my own horn, so I made up a story about two friends that talks about me instead. And then another story where I was at trial before a judge.…
I have been thinking a lot about faster feedback my entire life. In short, this is one of the drivers behind just about anything related to agile software development, product-led development. Changing our ways of working to enable faster flow is the guiding star for continuous improvement in Lean, the grandmother of agile principles. Over the years we, the software development community, have…
I have been using an agentic workflow for most of my work these last couple of months. Especially, but not exclusively when it comes to coding. Being all about the effectiveness in software development I have also read, viewed and listened A LOT to what is going on in the larger AI world. There are 4 trends that worry me. I don’t think there’s value in following these trends, and I think that…
Now that we are using agents to help us with a lot of daily tasks I realize how much information I have put in speaker notes. I have books worth of information in there, due to my bad memory. I knew it would pay off, someday. And they are really tricky to share with in an AI chat, like (we’re not using Chat GPT anymore, since this morning - right?) … well you choose. I’m going with Claude.…
Paradigm shift. Pretty cool to be part of another, huh? But also; scary, lots of big unknowns and the rate of change is like nothing I’ve ever experienced before. Yes - I’m talking about AI. But this post will be about some ideas how to navigate this change, trying to calm ourselves a bit and, quite frankly, give some comfort. Hopefully. Someone asked me a question just as I left the office this…