Re: Joy of this, Joy of that

On Wed, 27 Nov 2024, rbowman wrote:

On Tue, 26 Nov 2024 21:58:45 +0100, D wrote:
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Ahh... and today you have agile snakeoil salesmen! I heard a story from
the girlfriend of one of my consultants. Her company, a computer game
company, hired an "agile coach" who was workshopping away like a madman.

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Right...  I wonder if they even believe in the snake oil.We had a police
chief who was a pretty nice guy but had a weakness for traveling medicine
shows that would teach the officers about gang violence and so forth. Even
the low lifes in town knew the 'gangs' were bored 12 year olds with spray
cans that would last 4 seconds in Compton but he lapped it up.
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Then the Hells Angels came for vacation and he went off the deep end. The
Angels were better behaved than when the BMW riders came to town but he
imported cops from another state to deal with the potential bloody
violence. The violence turned out to be the out of state cops arresting
college kids who were protesting the over the top treatment of the bikers.
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City council went ballistic when they got the bill and it turned out it's
against state law to import cops, something that goes back to the copper
mines and Pinkertons, so the chief was fired.
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I'm sure the snake oil salesmen took the show to some other town. The
agile people probably use the same model.
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Next up... AI snakeoil salesmen! I saw in the swedish mainstream news, that ex BP chairman Carl-Henrik Svanbergs has been the government AI-commissioner.
He is now saying that only the government can make sweden a leading AI-nation. Therefore the government must create a program educating the population at large in Chat GPT, and it must "kickstart innovation".
I find this hilarious since the Northvolt battery factory is filing for chapter 11 and the governments retirement funds invested some hundreds of millions of dollars in this green bubble. Now they will probably invite Microsoft to become swedens "AI" partner, teaching the population about Chat GPT, and probably a government requirement in all tenders for end user software must be that it has Chat GPT.
Nothing like the government when it comes to inviting the latest snakeoil salesmen! =)