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To: SeekAndFind
Repeating from the article:
Addy Osmani, the head of user experience for Google Chrome, calls this 'the 70% problem':
"While engineers report being dramatically more productive with AI, the actual software we use daily doesn’t seem like it’s getting noticeably better."
AI can recognize patterns, but does not (yet?) understand flow mechanics.
10 posted on 03/16/2025 7:04:18 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: linMcHlp

Also a lot of business applications have to play well with legacy systems, that have a bunch of quirks, that cannot simply be deduced by using AI.


12 posted on 03/16/2025 7:05:51 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: linMcHlp
the actual software we use daily doesn’t seem like it’s getting noticeably better

Most of the time that is due to lack of planning and process. Few teams work to coding standards or have dedicated test teams. Worse yet, the art of writing specifications is dead. Most of my clients do not have a clue about how their system should work or the nuances of how they should "look and feel" to the end user. Almost none of them will sit down with me to verify that my understanding of the process/procedures/behavior of their intended product matches their expectations. Fortunately for them, I'm pretty good at this and can sleuth my way through the project.

A decent organization will refine its safety and functionality checklists or feed that back into standards. Few do so.

52 posted on 03/17/2025 6:36:58 AM PDT by GingisK
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