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How Work Works and Other Curiosities - Exploring Software Engineering Principles

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This talk uses ideas from information theory and complexity science to examine how software engineering practices shape the flow of work and value. It explores workflows, team structures, and ways to model work.

Syllabus

Intro
Programming in the past 10 years
LLM's for developers
Building systems optimizing for flow
Thoughtworks' software dev sensible defaults
Workflows as information through value streams
Fun fact
A sidebar on generative science
The Gini coefficient
Back to following the work
Using generative science to model the world of work
Outro

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