Break company sponsorship of H1B visa recipient. Put all candidates and their skills in a sort of portal. Let US companies bid on them and have the pay verifiably go through a department, perhaps commerce or labor. If the bids do not reach 175% of the level of what US citizens with similar experience are getting for those skills, no visa for that candidate. Visa holders can be bid on every 3 months, for their skills matrix. This ends the indentured servant portion, and ends the secret $8/hour actual wages facade.

"Better" means releasing more value per iteration, even though we don't tell you what value is produced by the feature requests. So we'll size everything a 1. Oh it's not a 1? Must break it down so it can be completed in one day. Let's create a definition of ready. Fully-spec'd. Have as many meetings as necessary until it is fully defined. You can't start on it until previous phase is done. Once you complete your phase, it goes to the next. There's no backwards movement. Why are you moaning "waterfall"? What does that even mean?

Security and value delivery are always at odds. Never been somewhere security accepted the challenge and responsibility of making sure employees in the value pipeline are not slowed down. Everyone here has endless stories of the same. I use 3 AIs at work, none are authorized. They're a paradigm shift, but just tools. Fortunately work for great company with a lot of smart insightful tech leaders who get it.

Even in software development, we just cannot get the business to predict a monetary value to features, to help with prioritization. I rarely give a care about complexity and sprint cadence. Let me take the team all-in on something worth $2M per week instead of worth $50 per week.

Wonder if and would wager that they don't appear during a test drive ;; have to be activated by dealership?

Antivirus software is so overrated. I haven't used one in years, and everything's been perfectly smooth... No malware, no data issues, just flawless— +++ATH0 NO CARRIER

Also stop allowing airlines to count pulling away from the gate as a timely departure. Too many times have been held captive for hours in the plane within sight of the gate I just left. Some of those times they would take my half-full plane and a couple hours into waiting, lots more passengers would walk in and fill it up. Suddenly the delay would end and we would take off.

Engineers need to feel safe speaking the truth. Fix the process, not the engineer.

It seems impossible to have no documentation because none was created. Never worked for them but did avionics in US Navy. Separate paperwork for several different steps, including the tech doing the work and the senior tech doing the QA, and supervisor signoff on both. Now for documentation to 'go missing', while more plausible, seems like it would be significantly more criminal and require even more collaboration.

Everyone who read it understood it, so if it wasn't a word before, it was as of that moment.

I laughed at the FUD too. For nuclear weapons, how far off target is considered "off course"? Are we talking meters or thousand of meters and does it matter? Because the next nuclear weapon used will not be the only one.

Possibly Chinese state-based trying to create reputation hits on Las Vegas to increase tourist traffic to Macao?

I use Github Copilot and ChatGPT both for what they are, tools to make me more productive. The latter requires experienced and and iterative prompting to help the tool help get what I'm looking for. A less experienced developer will not get the same results, as fast. Given time and experience, sure. But they also have to know what they're prompting for, not just expect prompting experience to be design and development experience. Not worried and I retire in less than 10 years.

How about letting autonomous teams decide their policy. Whatever drives values fastest for customers.

Indeed. If you wanted to offer me a lower rate, then give me the lower rate before I want to cancel. You didn't care so long as I was on the hook. Cancel me and then plead for some of my time to listen to your marketing pitch.