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ring of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned.” Fred Brooks “Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.” Brooks’ Law HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015920 Fred Brooks explains why writing software is hard, and why machines are not going to do it for us anytime soon. The or
ppeared in the proceedings of the Tenth World Software Conference. It was subsequently expanded into the, now famous, book, The Mythical Man Month. Brooks believed solving real world problems involves understanding the essential complexity of life. ‘Accidental Complexity’ — the simple type I: No Silve
ke this interface prettier, less cluttered?” It may cause a busy team to groan, but it does not damage the integrity of the design. To put it back in Brooks’ language, accidental creep is fine — provided you add some resource. Essential creep is not. Adding the french language prompts to a project in Engl
verything. How would we know? If only I had waited a little longer before rebooting, the program would have run to its end and given me the answer to Douglas Adams’ question. It would be very useful, and save a great deal of time, if I had a way of telling whether a program will ever stop. An elegant solution w
scribed by one reviewer as “smiling with a wild gleam in his eye.’ But that’s pretty much true of most visionaries. A few years later in his career, Brooks, as befits one of the world’s leading roboticists, suggested that “we overanthropomorphize humans, who are after all mere machines.” He went on to pr
the central point of the AI risk is that superintelligent AI is an environmental risk. Allow me to explain. In his “Parable of the Sentient Puddle,” Douglas Adams describes a puddle that wakes up in the morning and finds himself in a hole that fits him “staggeringly well.” From that observation, the puddle conc
scribed by one reviewer as “smiling with a wild gleam in his eye.’ But that’s pretty much true of most visionaries. A few years later in his career, Brooks, as befits one of the world’s leading roboticists, suggested that “we overanthropomorphize humans, who are after all mere machines.” He went on to pr
the central point of the AI risk is that superintelligent AI is an environmental risk. Allow me to explain. In his “Parable of the Sentient Puddle,” Douglas Adams describes a puddle that wakes up in the morning and finds himself in a hole that fits him “staggeringly well.” From that observation, the puddle conc
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