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What gave it away?

Yeah, but also would be interested in how you put it together.

Anyone who’s unclear on how the whole “AI transformation” is going: a major Geek House just banned it because it sucks so bad.

Big Tech Corporations: your naked attempts to lock out workers from IT profits by laying them off in the hope that AI will replace them is starting to fail catastrophically. Here’s to the dim hope you get bounced to the curb by a vengeful board.

Jesus hallucinatin’ christ on a glitchy mainframe.

I’m assuming it’s real though it may not be but - seriously, this is spellcheck. You know how long we’ve had spellcheck? Over two hundred years.

This? This is what’s thrown the tech markets into chaos? This garbage?

Fuck.

I salute your pedantry.

It happens with anyone. Bots track expirations and snatch them so that they can ransom them back to you for thousands - exactly as in OPs example.

AUTO RENEW. Auto-renew. Auto-renew is the way. The solution to this problem is Auto-renew.

Ooo tee deee!

(urp)oom J’inghm

It’s both. The word “Agile” is used for either depending on context.

To that end, it’s several “systems” depending on if it’s used for straight-software development in a department, or manufacturing with technological components, or an entire enterprise using Agile concepts (like SAFe). Each one could be slightly different, and each one is some variation on the philosophy.

What it differs from mostly is a phase-gate approach typified by project management, where a plan is made, a budget secured, and a timeline set. All of those things are of course present in Agile, just in different ways and not one-after-the-other.

The big difference is project management has been around forever; Agile just over twenty years. So the former is what everybody knows by default, the latter sounds very “woo woo” to a lot of people. I think that’s really what the comic is trying to say - Agile stuff sounds silly.

Good points all - I was just responding to a comic strip that I think meant to riff on the old, “what the customer wanted”, “how sales described it”, “what engineering proposed” etc. about project management but it just wasn’t finding the funny as it put the onus on Agile like isn’t this a silly discipline - well, no. :)

Ah, here it is:

Agile methodology is a defined framework for software development success. It helps teams adapt and solve specific needs at a given time and prioritizes accelerated time to market and the value of user insights. Agile is based upon a set of four values and twelve principles laid out in the Manifesto for Agile Software development.

Via https://builtin.com/agile

Waterfall method: talk about building a rocket for 5 years, build the rocket, rocket needs to be totally redesigned because we forgot to put a place for people to go - massive change reqeust, build new version. Project Delay: 27 years

Agile Method: a rocket is not software - do not use Agile

Kanban - kanban is agile

Scrum - scrum . . is also Agile. What are you doing, go back and do the waterfall one

Cool, thanks for the link!

Preach it

I’m sorting by New and it’s in there 10-15? Times. I’m wondering if it’s spam or a scam now.

Mm hmm.

In them days Linux was even more about messing around with configurations and finding workarounds. It came on floppies, and as it loaded it made these kind of grinding, farting sounds. We would install it with an onion tied to our belt - which was the style at the time.

Back in the day, using Windows was essentially a long series of fucking around with configurations and trying different workarounds to get things to “go”. The actual using of the computer was, in a way, secondary.

Nothing has changed. Many many years ago I bought a used Apple to try it out and was just - astounded at how little I needed to mess with things to get them to do what I wanted. It was all in settings. That’s it.

Watching Microsoft leap headfirst into full evil is just like watching the seasons change.

AI Defenders! Assemble!

Well the firing’s happening so, i guess let’s hope you’re right about the other part.

Is it any wonder these businesses are SO successful