2nd employee at Semantics3 here. Considering all the AI available today I think things like product disambiguation becomes wayyy easier. We were trying many tricks and heuristics to identify the same products across sites.
> we aim for a computing system that is fully visible and understandable top-to-bottom — as simple, transparent, trustable, and non-magical as possible. When it works, you learn how it works. When it doesn’t work, you can see why. Because everyone is familiar with the internals, they can be changed and adapted for immediate needs, on the fly, in group discussion.
Funny for me, as this is basically my principal problem with AI as a tool.
It’s likely very aesthetic or experiential, but for me, it’s strong: a fundamental value of wanting to work to make the system and the work transparent, shared/sharable and collaborative.
Always liked B Victor a great deal, so it wasn’t surprising, but it was satisfying to see alignment on this.
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Just as an FYI, your "link to a project you're proud of" and "link to a piece of code you wrote" questions use different formats, with the latter triggering a submit if you attempt to add line breaks.
Hopefully it doesn't irritate you too much that in order to finish my answers I had to submit this twice.
I know the Deming books are written to a large extent from the perspective of surveys, but they are mainly technical.
I have also read Robinson's Designing Quality Survey Questions which I remember as good, but perhaps not as deep as I had hoped. I don't think that's the one I'm thinking of, unfortunately.
It's highly possible I'm confabulating a book from a variety of sources also...
