Hundred sextillion terabytes. Yeah, everybody of calling it hungry sex bites in minutes.

“I rule from the shadows” is my usual response.

That’s the same people that never figured out using blinkers or speed limits so that sounds about right.

It could also be possible that AI doesn’t write code but becomes the new software. Hook it up to libraries, contractions, databases and pump it full of the verbatim ramblings from the client, sales guy and manager. Sure, it costs a magnitude more power to run but it’s up in no time.

Then hire a few consultants that used to be senior engineers for an outrageous amount to trace the weird hallucinations and replace the mission critical part with real code.

The future is going to be wacko.

Money makes might makes right

Let’s see how fast China will be in becoming the cultural dominant one.

Miljaaar

And sending a space ship at a good fraction of light speed to a nearby star uses more energy than our total civilization uses at the moment. We’ve got some work to do climbing up the Kardashev scale before we’re anywhere close to that kind of travel.

Garbage in, garbage out. These logos represent the latter.

Well, often they know it´s hard to estimate, but the entire corporate system is built around having things done by a certain date, your time costs money and payments are usually linked to those dates. They don´t really have a choice but to make a planning based on the estimates you give and monitor the progress so they can give the proper level of panic to their bosses. Of course, software has always been a disaster with estimates and attempts to tame the chaos haven´t been that successful.

I usually make a ridiculously detailed list of all tasks. ¨Add button A on screen. Discuss details: 2 hours. Interface work: 0.5 hour. Code work: 2 hours. Database work: 2 hours. Testing: 2 hours. FAT: 2 hours. Changes after FAT: 1 hour. SAT: 2 hour. Test script: 1 hour. Update documentation: 2 hours. Add button B … ¨ Put it all in an excel sheet and summarize. Most PMs don´t even want to start arguing a list like that, and it seems to make a reasonably good estimate for me.

It’s an attempt to get a handle on things and trying to avoid situations such as:

“Oh, I was struck on that point for the last 3 months. I reinvented the wheel 2 times and now it works.”

“And now we’re 3 months behind schedule. Why didn’t you ask anybody?”

“Yeah, I didn’t want to bother anyone. But I did put in on the timesheets.”

“It says ‘working on project’.”

And that’s how regular project update meetings get scheduled, and a bunch of messages asking for updates.

Freude, schöner Götterfunken!

(Joy, thou shining spark of God)

Nobody stopped him so far so he has every reason to try. Impeached, convicted, leaks, treason, of course sir go right ahead. Big law firms are bending the knee for Trump in the Great Grovel. It’s all going as planned for him. Rule of Law and the constitution are going on the trash heap of history.