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Systems ideas that sound good but almost never work
Some engineering patterns that sound good but almost never work as intended
Steven Sinofsky
Personal stories and lessons from inside the rise and fall of the PC revolution. Click to read Hardcore Software by Steven Sinofsky, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
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I Shipped, Therefore I Am
“Who are you and why are you here?” –Dave Cutler (DaveC)
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Automating processes with software is hard
We have decades of experience trying to automate processes. My biggest lesson is that automation is not about the easy and known flow, but about exception handling.
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If writing is thinking then what happens if AI is doing the writing and reading?
Then what happens if AI is doing the writing and reading?
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Office 2000 is good to go
The biggest competition for Office 2000 was…Office 97. –Realization at the end of the project