[Weekly Retro] Redefining Teams: Humans + AI

#61 - Aug.2024

Happy Friday!

💡 Here is a quick idea before you head off to the weekend:

We are entering a new era of virtual teams: Humans + AI agents.

The leverage a professional can gain from AI-enabled agents is huge.

It’s fascinating to consider how quickly we can build multidisciplinary "teams" of AI agents, distilling and consolidating vast amounts of knowledge.

We are far from the magic and creative serendipity of a real human team, but the future is promising, allowing anyone with curiosity and will to make a “dent in the universe."

🅧 Tech nostalgia

✉️ Post from this week

This week I wrote about how to build an innovation culture, not just through methods and frameworks, but by fostering a mindset towards design core principles:

An innovation culture beyond methodologies

#118 - Knowledge bites on tech innovation, design, and creativity. How to build an innovation culture, not just through methods, but by fostering a mindset towards core principles.

César's blogCésar Rodríguez

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🧪 Experiment of the this week

I played with Dall-e 3 (through ChatGPT) to design a new logo for a personal project. Things I learned:

• I still struggle to define clear prompts. While you can use natural language there's a big difference when you use keywords to guide your requests (e.g. styles).
• I loved the surprises from the results. They helped as inspiration for new designs and for more refined work if you want to take it one step forward.
• I would love to have larger limits for image generation. I iterated over many designs but quickly reached the limit from ChatGPT (images per hour).

👨🏻‍💻 Interesting links I found during this week

We have left the cloud

Since it took us years to get into the cloud in the first place, I originally imagined it would take us years to get out as well. But all that work to containerize our applications and prepare them for the cloud actually turned out to make it relatively easy to exit. And now, after six months of effort, it’s done. We’re out. The last a…

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🖋️ Quote of the week

“There is no great genius without some touch of madness.” – Quote from Aristotle to Seneca.