Maybe there´s one real benefit to the current AI hype:
These systems consume ridiculous amounts of electricity. They´re also run by some of the richest corporations on Earth.
As a result, those corporations invest money into boosting the supply of electricity: driving grid improvements, and financing new generating technologies, e.g. by committing to buy the electricity that the newbies will produce.
Microsoft´s Outlook really needs a bulk edit function for calendar events.
I´m spending a quarter of an hour cancelling individual meetings ahead of my vacation.
Here´s a free user story for the Outlook team:
As an Outlook calendar user
I want to be able to select events across a given timeframe and respond to all of them with a single action
so that I can cancel all appointments during my vacation.
My last job was with a megaCorp that used agile sort of ok with some of the dev teams. The suits spent years crafting a SAFe approach. It was finally publicly released as version 4.0. it didn't pass the giggle test, even with its creators and was roundly ignored.
@lePetomaneAncien I work in a company that uses both waterfall (for safety critical stuff - actually a V model) and SAFe for the usual cloud platform things.
Each method works well within its own domain. The difference in mindset between people on both sides is always fascinating to observe, though.
Ich habe keinerlei juristische Qualifikation, und bin erst recht kein Anwalt. Niemand, der halbwegs bei Verstand ist, würde mich Anwaltsdinge tun lassen.
Die Algorithmen auf Xing & Co. sind einfach nur Mist.
From what I see, I suspect that if you need a nice fireworks display this weeks, all you have to do is to ask someone who works in software procurement about VMware.