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India hits 150 GW solar milestone The country added around 44.6 GW of new PV capacity in fiscal year 2026, according to new figures released by JMK Research.

With 150GW solar, India achieved its target of having 50% of its total installed electricity capacity from non-fossil fuel sources in June 2025, reaching this milestone 5 years ahead of its original 2030 deadline set under the Paris Agreement www.pv-magazine.com/2026/04/10/i...

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And how can we make it easier for people to speak up? Read Speaking Up for some tips.

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#DontLetProblemsHIde #voice #DontLetProblemsHide

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This heartbreaking footage of Ukrainian tennis player Marta Kostyuk preparing for tournaments amid air raid sirens and missile attacks is a stark reminder that russians shouldn't be allowed to participate in international sporting events until they stop their genocidal war and are brought to justice

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"Boroda" ended up trapped under the rubble in a basement - pinned beneath concrete slabs, with a broken arm and leg.

The rescue operation lasted 10 days. Throughout that time, his brothers-in-arms cleared the debris by hand under Russian shelling. The injured Defender was saved.

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Tiger Woods’ Liver Photographed Crawling Out Of Golfer After Crash

Tiger Woods’ Liver Photographed Crawling Out Of Golfer After Crash

Tiger Woods’ Liver Photographed Crawling Out Of Golfer After Crash theonion.com/tiger-woods-liver-photog...

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Full instructions and card text:

agilepainrelief.com/blog/human-p...

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Three takeaways:
• GenAI doesn’t understand your prompt, it’s pattern-matching
• No memory between requests
• More parameters = better mimicry, not intelligence

Run it before your next retro. 10 min, index cards, a die.

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New glossary entry on AI and Skill Atrophy, the anti-pattern the software industry needs to face:

agilepainrelief.com/glossary/ai-...

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It’s a reinforcing loop: more AI reliance → less skill practice → less ability to judge output → even more reliance.

Junior developers are especially at risk, building confidence in AI before building confidence in themselves.

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Brian Graham calls it the Knowledge Cliff: automating away understanding you need.

GPS replaced taxi drivers’ mental maps. NASA lost rocket expertise to retirement. In software, every LLM decision erodes skill while giving false confidence.

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We will have to differ. You can't use an LLM to find a mistake it's brethern made. Unfortunately the flaws are endemic. See: agilepainrelief.com/blog/genai-c...

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AI is a superpower. The question is whether you use it to produce more, or to learn faster.

agilepainrelief.com/blog/gen-ai-...

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The antidote? Use AI to validate faster, not ship faster.

ScrumMasters: frame Sprint Goals as “learn whether X solves problem Y.” Product Owners: run three small experiments in the time it used to take to build one feature.

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AI agents promised faster delivery. They also delivered 39% more Cognitive Complexity and 30% more static analysis warnings.

Research found a reinforcing cycle: AI generates more code → complexity rises → debt accumulates → velocity drops → teams write even more AI code to compensate.

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If you read the details in the blog post, I think we're too trusting of these tools. Myself included.

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GenAI is making it easier to switch tool providers. I’m frustrated with our email platform: most features are GUI-only, no API access.

I’ve written code to extract our entire newsletter archive + stats. When the time comes, exporting will be painless.

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...last year I created these guidelines in the context of Scrum Teams: agilepainrelief.com/blog/why-ai-...

I plan to update them later this year.

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So far the most important one: only use it domains where I have enough knowledge to verify the output.
- Strategic analysis of my business - yes
- Competitive Market Intelligence - mostly
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- Medical advice - no

More importantly I thin we're still learning. ...

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GenAI Code Quality – The Fundamental Flaws and How Bluffing Makes It Worse AI-generated code has 1.7x more issues and the flaws are structural, not fixable by code review. Why training rewards bluffing over quality, and what to do about it

They learned from the internet's code. No grasp of architecture or design patterns. Just next-token prediction dressed up as engineering.

These aren't bugs. This is how they're built.

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AI models are trained to bluff.

Pass/fail training offers no reward for admitting uncertainty. Instead of "I don't know," you get a confident wrong answer. Researchers call it "test-taking mode."

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Start here: never assume the output is correct. Build verification habits that match the stakes.

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Multiply that across a team. Six people, ten AI-assisted tasks each per week. Even a small error rate means several unnoticed mistakes weekly.

The real cost? Catching errors requires exactly what we're short on: domain expertise, critical thinking, and time.

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Sounds about right. There is a massive upside - I need a much better and much needed strategic review in a day. More importantly I automated much of the data collection with Typescript+Playwright so I don't need an LLM to do that in the future.

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GenAI didn't replace my judgment. It gave me clear choices to make. The hard work of building the products remains.

Side benefit: reusable scripts that pull data without AI next time.

The productivity gain is real. So is the cost.

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Most of the analysis was right. Mistakes were easy to spot.

But compressing a week into a day doesn't reduce cognitive load; it might double it. I'm far more exhausted than after a normal workday.

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Bonus: realized my $1.2k Ahrefs subscription had no value left.

GenAI has real downsides (trained on copyrighted material...), but Claude Code + Markdown files are saving me time and money on grunt work. Today I'll take the win.

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Also discovered the SEO structure I paid $$$ for is now obsolete. Used Claude Code to restructure internal links across our Astro site. First batch done in an hour. Manually? Days. It even caught broken redirects.

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Apple is using the Wizard of Oz MVP to test how we expect to interact with AI Agents that work on our behalf. I never thought I'd see this from Apple.

machinelearning.apple.com/research/map...

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Virtual Certified ScrumMaster training — Agile Pain Relief Consulting LEARN HOW TO FIX & AVOID SCRUM PROBLEMS. Everyone sells Scrum certification. But discount training will get you discount results, with a lot of DIY and expensive trial and error.

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Speed is not an advantage. With GenAI, Quality and Fit for Purpose will differentiate.

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