{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/68357ec21b846c88bdcd7480/69c16991d832f1da93c057bd?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"140: A pandemonium of stochastic parrots","description":"<p>Your hospital has a brilliant new security measure. Your doctors have a paper cup.</p><p><br></p><p>Your IT team demands a new password every fortnight. Your staff have a Post-it note.</p><p><br></p><p>Every time someone tries to make a system more secure, the system gets less secure.</p><p><br></p><p>Tom and Corissa roam from hospital proximity sensors to vibe-coded spreadsheets, and find the same story playing out everywhere: different incentives, predictable workarounds, and a cycle that will keep going long after the technology changes.</p><p><br></p><ul><li>Why the most dangerous thing about a security measure might be how annoying it is</li><li>Geoff the tinkerer, his idiosyncratic Excel spreadsheet, and what might happen when he gets access to an AI coding tool</li><li>\"A pandemonium of stochastic parrots\" — what frontier engineering teams are actually learning about agent swarms (and it's not what the headlines say)</li><li>The DevOps precedent: what happened to the person whose whole career was named-server maintenance, and how that rhymes with now</li><li>Why your entire product sprint team might look, from the CEO's perspective, like a very slow LLM</li><li>The one thing we can reliably predict about how AI will change organisations — even if everything else is uncertain</li></ul><p><br></p><p>For anyone trying to figure out where to place their bets — on career, on technology, on their team — when the only honest answer is that nobody knows.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Links &amp; references</strong></p><p><br></p><ul><li>Simon Wardley (and his models for how technology and practice co-evolve)</li><li>Clayton Christensen (Innovator's Dilemma, disruption theory)</li><li>Episode 134: Geoff's shadow spreadsheet sprawl <a href=\"https://shows.acast.com/tentacles/episodes/696fea603738e9e7d196e2f5\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://shows.acast.com/tentacles/episodes/696fea603738e9e7d196e2f5</a></li><li>Episode 127: The unbundling and bundling of jobs <a href=\"https://shows.acast.com/tentacles/episodes/6920570d4105c9a02176f2bc\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://shows.acast.com/tentacles/episodes/6920570d4105c9a02176f2bc</a></li></ul>","author_name":"Tom Kerwin"}