Bikeshedding and Parkinson’s Law in the Age of AI Have you ever noticed that big, complex decisions are sometimes agreed surprisingly quickly, while smaller, lower-risk details are debated again and again? You know the pattern. A team gathers to d…

Parkinson’s Law of Triviality suggests we give disproportionate attention to things that are easy to understand and less to more complex ones.

With AI making more things feel easy this effect isn’t going away, it’s scaling.

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#AI #Bikeshedding #ParkinsonsLaw

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Cool - this #meeting could have been the #email I sent a month ago where I outlined the #problem, the alternative #solutions and my (as #sme) recommended solution, which was agreed to be the optimal solution.

#outlook doesn't need "email reactions" it needs "I agree with your […]

12 • Bike Shedding - Hitchhikers Guide to Design Bike shedding refers to the tendency of teams to spend disproportionate more time and energy debating trivial or easy-to-understand aspects of a project, whi...

Maximum energy on minimum impact, are you #BikeShedding again?
#UX #Design #UI #UXDesign #ProductDesign #DesignThinking #books #humor #DontPanic #UXFails
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Die Initiative zum Verbot von Bezeichnungen wie #Veggie-Wurst ist ebenso wie die #Genderdebatte letztlich eine Form von #Bikeshedding. Sie kostet enorm viel Zeit und Energie, die dann fehlt um sich mit den wirklich wichtigen Themen zu beschäftigen.

Why Should I Care What Color the Bikeshed Is?

Offcourse https://www.bikeshed.com changes color each time the page is refreshed

#bikeshed #BikeShedding

Samozřejmě. Ale velký věci, ty se vyřeší hned (protože vyžadují nějaký vhled, a nebude se k nim vyjadřovat každý, kdo má do prdele díru 😆) #bikeshedding

Simplifying iterator method implementations On the chance of starting a bike shedding topic, I wanted to ask a simple, but serious question: Why are most methods of Iterator so complex? I mean, they're not hugely complex, but let's look at find_map() for example: fn find_map(&mut; self, f: F) -> Option**where Self: Sized, F: FnMut(Self::Item) -> Option**, { #[inline] fn check(mut f: impl FnMut(T) -> Option**) -> impl FnMut((), T) -> ControlFlow**{ move |(), x| match f(x) { Some(x) => ...

Asking the important questions: users.rust-lang.org/t/simplifying-iterator-m...

#Rust #rustlang #bikeshedding

My first intro to #StackOverflow was asking a simple question on a language I just wasn’t familiar with but had to use

I learned the term #bikeshedding rather quickly

Mostly avoided it after that — albeit the questions I did ask on languages I did know rarely got actual answers

#BuildInPublic

Let’s break it down👇

#TrivialityEffect #Bikeshedding #ThreadSeries

Need some more opinions on deprecating clear text passwords for #postgres. Weight in at postgr.es/m/CAKAnmmJcX... - let's see some ideas. #bikeshedding #postgresql

#Trump's obsession w/ renaming the Gulf of Mexico & annexing neighboring countries are instances of the "Law of triviality"

world issues are too complex so he focuses on trivial things upon which everyone can have an opinion.

https://buff.ly/2FYpIyM

#usPolitics #BikeShedding

I don't really enjoy building UIs, but UI and UX are fundamental for grounding the design process in most software. So now I want to build some sort of generic UI scaffolding that allows me to rapidly play and interact with event-sourced backend workflows #bikeshedding

Noch ein #Plenum wird das Problem garantiert lösen. #Basisdemokratie #BikeShedding

So if #DCStatehood happens, #NewColumbia will be the name for the state? What was #OldColumbia then? Just some #bikeshedding to consider...