"Such is life" https://secondphase.com.auhttps://bsky.app/profile/jasper07.secondphase.com.auhttps://bsky.app/profile/jasper07.secondphase.com.au/post/3mvlirtywn22eLooks like spring, feels like winter15 Sep 2026 20:49 +0000at://did:plc:bdnlvzf6kn5w6hfbwctebcfl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvlirtywn22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/jasper07.secondphase.com.au/post/3mvj5kf2b3c2u"We believe that rigorous use of AI helps a company like ours accelerate development, delight customers, and go head to head with competitors with vastly more resources. We believe that using AI is not a replacement for skill and craft, but an amplification." Culture eats breakfast for strategy [contains quote post or other embedded content]14 Sep 2026 22:23 +0000at://did:plc:bdnlvzf6kn5w6hfbwctebcfl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvj5kf2b3c2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/jasper07.secondphase.com.au/post/3mvj4uw7tj22u“Could you send me the prompt you used to create this email?” Asking for the prompt is now the shortcut. The email is the long way round.14 Sep 2026 22:11 +0000at://did:plc:bdnlvzf6kn5w6hfbwctebcfl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvj4uw7tj22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/jasper07.secondphase.com.au/post/3mvgl5md2i22uCaught between Scylla and Charybdis13 Sep 2026 21:48 +0000at://did:plc:bdnlvzf6kn5w6hfbwctebcfl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvgl5md2i22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/jasper07.secondphase.com.au/post/3mvbyvnlozk2iOH : “Projects die when they hit a deadline. Products die when we treat them like projects.”12 Sep 2026 02:11 +0000at://did:plc:bdnlvzf6kn5w6hfbwctebcfl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvbyvnlozk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/jasper07.secondphase.com.au/post/3mv7jloxzfk2iIf River Cartwright becomes the new James Bond, it would be a brilliant hat tip back to the slapstick Bond era, when Peter Sellers and Woody Allen were playing Bond. From Slow Horses to 007. 😂11 Sep 2026 02:31 +0000at://did:plc:bdnlvzf6kn5w6hfbwctebcfl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv7jloxzfk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/jasper07.secondphase.com.au/post/3mv53cjt56s2dThe Story of VS Code https://youtu.be/kHL3XzjpT5w?si=2_U-P5p9bbAPinhl10 Sep 2026 03:10 +0000at://did:plc:bdnlvzf6kn5w6hfbwctebcfl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv53cjt56s2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/jasper07.secondphase.com.au/post/3musqe75w4s2nLex goes to DHH "I'm an introvert who doesn't like speaking" DHH "me too!!" Meanwhile I'm half way through their 5 hour podcast that I can't listen to at 1.5X speed cause DHH already waxes lyrical at 2X speed06 Sep 2026 00:28 +0000at://did:plc:bdnlvzf6kn5w6hfbwctebcfl/app.bsky.feed.post/3musqe75w4s2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/jasper07.secondphase.com.au/post/3muspt6uavc2nAt SAP #SITSyd on Friday, I was talking with other industry veterans, lamenting that 30 years later salaries and rates haven't gone up. We worked in tobacco, alcohol, building products, car manufacturing and steel. Most have disappeared, moved offshore or been made uncompetitive.06 Sep 2026 00:18 +0000at://did:plc:bdnlvzf6kn5w6hfbwctebcfl/app.bsky.feed.post/3muspt6uavc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/jasper07.secondphase.com.au/post/3musf24gwd22j 'Mitchell and webb holy grail' https://share.google/J7wTXi4eDhL6YpucM always makes me lol @mikedoyle.bsky.social05 Sep 2026 21:05 +0000at://did:plc:bdnlvzf6kn5w6hfbwctebcfl/app.bsky.feed.post/3musf24gwd22jhttps://bsky.app/profile/jasper07.secondphase.com.au/post/3muo2ylaxtc25@vishnandr.bsky.social and his colleague Abdel, demonstrating running local models and MCP with CAP, giving every developer a business case for upgrading their laptop #SITSYD04 Sep 2026 03:55 +0000at://did:plc:bdnlvzf6kn5w6hfbwctebcfl/app.bsky.feed.post/3muo2ylaxtc25https://bsky.app/profile/jasper07.secondphase.com.au/post/3muo2tlqyok25@marian.zeis.de walking us through his AI Journey (at 5:30am his time), so much has evolved in the last two years, who knows where we will be in another 2 years #SITSYD04 Sep 2026 03:52 +0000at://did:plc:bdnlvzf6kn5w6hfbwctebcfl/app.bsky.feed.post/3muo2tlqyok25https://bsky.app/profile/jasper07.secondphase.com.au/post/3munndknnhc2eBeen over 8 years since I upgraded my laptop still running an XPS GTX 1050, thinking I'll wait for these RTX Sparks Nvidia RTX Spark ‘Superchip’: The First AI PCs Are Here | WIRED https://share.google/OZJ7dE5SICalDqFtw03 Sep 2026 23:51 +0000at://did:plc:bdnlvzf6kn5w6hfbwctebcfl/app.bsky.feed.post/3munndknnhc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/jasper07.secondphase.com.au/post/3munajt2usk2rMade me lol03 Sep 2026 20:01 +0000at://did:plc:bdnlvzf6kn5w6hfbwctebcfl/app.bsky.feed.post/3munajt2usk2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/jasper07.secondphase.com.au/post/3mu3p57jjjk2jSpring it on27 Aug 2026 20:35 +0000at://did:plc:bdnlvzf6kn5w6hfbwctebcfl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu3p57jjjk2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/jasper07.secondphase.com.au/post/3mtzwuo4sok2uResearchers found AI-written CVs score higher when the reviewer is the same AI that wrote them. So if AI writes the job description. AI writes the CV. AI screens the CV. And nobody in that chain grokked what the job actually is. How do you stop the person who gets hired from producing work slop?27 Aug 2026 03:48 +0000at://did:plc:bdnlvzf6kn5w6hfbwctebcfl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtzwuo4sok2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/jasper07.secondphase.com.au/post/3mtwtwqtslc2uHow I find problems to solve as a staff engineer https://lalitm.com/post/find-problems-staff-engineer/ impact doesn't come from being the loudest voice or chasing the biggest problems. It comes from noticing friction, understanding why it exists, and seeing patterns before everyone else does.25 Aug 2026 22:17 +0000at://did:plc:bdnlvzf6kn5w6hfbwctebcfl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtwtwqtslc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/jasper07.secondphase.com.au/post/3mtrviqwvh227"If you're connected to me and looking for work, hit me up." Seeing a lot more of these lately on LI. AI can tailor a CV to pretty much any JD now, so recruiters are left trying to find the signal in a pile of noise. Maybe we're just going back to word of mouth.23 Aug 2026 23:02 +0000at://did:plc:bdnlvzf6kn5w6hfbwctebcfl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtrviqwvh227https://bsky.app/profile/jasper07.secondphase.com.au/post/3mtrtkk5uvk27So many public product roadmaps have gathered dust over the last 12–18 months. Vendors going all-in on AI is understandable, but not delivering on promises while evolving the services will have an impact on early adopters. They adopted early expecting the product to evolve quickly.23 Aug 2026 22:27 +0000at://did:plc:bdnlvzf6kn5w6hfbwctebcfl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtrtkk5uvk27https://bsky.app/profile/jasper07.secondphase.com.au/post/3mtq44opu5s27LinkedIn now has a “report AI slop” feature. Sounds less like a feature and more like a full-time job.23 Aug 2026 05:55 +0000at://did:plc:bdnlvzf6kn5w6hfbwctebcfl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtq44opu5s27https://bsky.app/profile/jasper07.secondphase.com.au/post/3mtcqfmgtz22lTrying to work out how Cloud ALM creates transports in on-prem S/4 with no Cloud Connector. Rabbit hole led to ST-PI. Outbound only, yet transports get created in S/4 and somehow appear in the Cloud ALM Features app. No questions. Just debugging time.17 Aug 2026 22:21 +0000at://did:plc:bdnlvzf6kn5w6hfbwctebcfl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtcqfmgtz22lhttps://bsky.app/profile/jasper07.secondphase.com.au/post/3mta4i6igrk2edescribe your music taste with only three bands no genres allowed!! Faith No More Beastie Boys You Am I16 Aug 2026 21:19 +0000at://did:plc:bdnlvzf6kn5w6hfbwctebcfl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mta4i6igrk2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/jasper07.secondphase.com.au/post/3mt5y66x4ts2eDevelopers tend to focus on technical debt - the decisions we deferred and the shortcuts we took But systems also change through what we stop doing and what happens around us Debt = deferred capability Decay = lost capability Drift = displaced capability Debt is chosen. Decay and drift accumulate16 Aug 2026 00:57 +0000at://did:plc:bdnlvzf6kn5w6hfbwctebcfl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt5y66x4ts2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/jasper07.secondphase.com.au/post/3mt5wddbzns2eTwo lines from a podcast this morning Writing is thinking. If it takes longer to read than to write, it’s slop. If writing is thinking, reading is an attempt to reconstruct someone else’s thoughts. AI can produce the words. Without obvious commitment or sacrifice, there’s no trust.16 Aug 2026 00:24 +0000at://did:plc:bdnlvzf6kn5w6hfbwctebcfl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt5wddbzns2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/jasper07.secondphase.com.au/post/3mt4heb5tdc2eBinge watching Mr Inbetween, it's like Barry meets Breaking Bad15 Aug 2026 10:23 +0000at://did:plc:bdnlvzf6kn5w6hfbwctebcfl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt4heb5tdc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/jasper07.secondphase.com.au/post/3msyrcd3bak2wAI is slowly becoming another dependency, like a database, API or MQ. Yet enterprise vendors are making it a destination. Another layer where integration, orchestration, business logic and semantic models congregate. AI should be a capability within the architecture, not the architecture itself13 Aug 2026 23:10 +0000at://did:plc:bdnlvzf6kn5w6hfbwctebcfl/app.bsky.feed.post/3msyrcd3bak2whttps://bsky.app/profile/jasper07.secondphase.com.au/post/3msw6vhwl5k2vAI productivity is obvious at the individual level. Less so at team, cross-team and enterprise level. More code means more reviewing, documentation, testing, bugs and sign offs. AI is stress-testing weak processes and governance.12 Aug 2026 22:36 +0000at://did:plc:bdnlvzf6kn5w6hfbwctebcfl/app.bsky.feed.post/3msw6vhwl5k2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/jasper07.secondphase.com.au/post/3msqa7httd22yI still hear Developers10 Aug 2026 13:43 +0000at://did:plc:bdnlvzf6kn5w6hfbwctebcfl/app.bsky.feed.post/3msqa7httd22y