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When LLMs Collide With Software Development and Economics

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Paul Kedrosky and Eric Norlin of SK Ventures wrote an interesting and important essay titled Society’s Technical Debt and Software’s Gutenberg Moment. And there is also deserved concern about such technologies’ material impact on jobs. The abstract follows. I encourage you to read the full essay.

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Rally Software Acquired By CA Technologies for $480 Million

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Congrats to my friends at Rally Software on the announcement that they’ve signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by CA Technologies for $480 million. Rally started out life as F4 Technologies. To the extended Rally Software family past and present – congratulations. Get Agile with Rally Release 5.

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Accelerating Technology Change and Continuous Learning

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At dinner last week, my long time friend Dave Jilk (we just celebrated our 30th friendship anniversary) tossed a hypothesis at me that as people age, they resist adopting new technologies. People working in information technology tend to take a producer perspective. The essay follows. I think he totally nails it. What do you think?

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Time To Really Deal With The Broken Software Patent System

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I’ve been railing against software patents for a number of years. I believe software patents are an invalid construct – software shouldn’t be able to patented. Martin Fowler, a software developer, had a well thought out article titled SoftwarePatent. But that has changed. And they kept coming.

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Roam: My New Favorite Software Product

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Until six weeks ago, my favorite software product of all time was Lotus Agenda. We ran my first company (Feld Technologies) on Lotus Agenda from when the first version of Agenda came out sometime in 1990 to when we sold the company in 1993. I use a lot of different software. I have several entrepreneurial heroes.

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Why Philosophy and Entrepreneurship?

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It was the end of January 1988, about nine months since we had embarked on turning Brad’s solo consulting shop, Feld Technologies, into a real business. We planned to use smart yet inexpensive software developers to build business application software. Feld Technologies never became a disruptive company, despite our ambitions.

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Contact Tracing and Technology Conference ? 6/3/20

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On Wednesday, June 3rd, a team led by the COVID Tech Task Force is putting on the first of several free public conferences on the topic of Contact Tracing and Technology. Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center, NYU’s Alliance for Public Interest Technology, TechCrunch, Betaworks Studios, and Hangar are also part of organizing the effort.