People whose primary job is to "coordinate" often, either in a well-meaning attempt to be thorough or just to be relevant, try to pull as many different people into any decision-making as possible.
So instead of me just getting approval from my manager, I need to get approval/buy-in from departments A, B, and C.
In that case, firing the "coordinator" person increases velocity because parts of the business processes they prop disappear.
> In that case, firing the "coordinator" person increases velocity because parts of the business processes they prop disappear.
So you get rid of the coordinator. What then? Does this magically unblock people?
Let me frame this differently: if coordinating teams creates as much problems and impedance as you claim, how come Uber hired them to begin with? I mean, either Uber was shooting itself in the foot then, or it is now. Which one is it?
Yes? Removing and/or minimizing detractors/hangers-ons/randoms from a project is an important part of running a project. Especially in corporate scenarios where telling people to go pound sand is, unfortunately, not an option, more elaborate strategies must be employed.
> If coordinating teams creates as much problems and impedance as you claim, how come Uber hired them to begin with? I mean, either Uber was shooting itself in the foot then, or it is now. Which one is it?
Are you thinking that humans can predict behavior and evolution of social systems, and especially how they would behave after some change is forced upon them?
In my opinion, that cannot be further from the truth. Any sufficiently complex social system, which Uber with 30k+ employees definitely is, exists and evolves more or less independently from how any one individual part of this system might wish. Even if it's a CEO.
Uber leadership thought cross-team coordination would help them, so they hired a bunch of people to do it. That might have been a correct idea at a time, or at least on paper, it looked like a correct move. But in the end, it did not pan out. So they probably shot themselves in the foot back then. Did they shoot themselves in the foot now? Who knows? (Spoiler: no one) We'll see once enough time has passed.
Is it SillyTavern but TUI or is the flow different? I know SillyTavern is more dialogue focused, but surely it can be configured for novel writing instead?
Not sure why you're getting so much hate. Internet is already chock-full of slop, a new TUI-based tool is not going to make it measurably worse.
As for the hate I think it's because I called it AI writing tool that brings is a crowd that I really didn't want to address or ever envision as users.
Sometimes, unpredictably, and uncontrollably, the LLM outputs bullshit that reads uncannily close to the hard-won, carefully-phrased text the human originally wrote.
A lot of us hate that with a white-hot passion akin to the eye-melting intensity of an arc welder.
If you don't understand that, then yes, I expect you're quite happy with LLMs, and indeed find inexplicable the reactions of those who are emphatically not happy with genAI.
The LLMs are beautiful if anything, a lot of creative and hard work has been poured into building them. They take the natural language to the next level and all that was engineering part. It has its own usefulness subjective to areas. The business part, trying to put it as a silver bullet for everything, is trying to put a square peg in round hole is the one which is causing this polarization.
> If the history of email had gone somewhat differently, the last email you sent could have been rescinded or superseded by a newer version when you accidentally wrote the wrong thing. It could have auto-destructed if not read by midnight.
Immutability is one of the best things about email.
As a platform for sending invoices and official communications it’s fine. As a way for people to talk with each other it sucks. These days I’m of the opinion that most messaging should just be auto deleted after a month. If there’s something particularly important you want to keep, note it down. Otherwise just let it be forgotten.
So instead of me just getting approval from my manager, I need to get approval/buy-in from departments A, B, and C.
In that case, firing the "coordinator" person increases velocity because parts of the business processes they prop disappear.
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