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Those CRT electron guns packed a punch.

They leave a little “sorry we missed you” thing on the door

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.

This was the more plausible theory the last time I looked into it - some kind of sync lag.

What is that laptop on the right?

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.

Whoo - tough room

Take my shell, please!

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.

“codeually” 😆

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

Well that’s a fucked up story. Christ.

Why is the job market so awful?

The big deal is advertising. Advertising is a corruption of everything it touches. They may as well partner with privacy-protecting deforestation and mining interests.

Cool, thanks for the link!