Tech Lead Journal - 235 - From AI Chaos to Clarity: Building Situational Awareness with Wardley Mapping - Simon Wardley
00:05:00
Sun Tzu talked about 5 factors that mattered in competition, have a purpose on moral imperative.
- Understand your landscape.
- Understand how the heavens, the climate, the weather, how that is changing. The climactic patterns.
- Then understand principles, doctrine, how you organize yourself.
- And then you get into leadership and gameplay.
And what I was fascinated by was this concept of landscape. How do I understand the landscape around me?
And that’s what kicked me off into the whole journey into mapping.”
16:00 - on why mapping is different than just documenting processes - processes default to being a graph of nodes.
And the distinction between a graph and a map is in a map, the space itself, has meaning. So you can’t just move a piece without changing the fundamental meaning of what you’re looking at.
30:30 - 3 major styles of patterns for mapping:
- Climate - universal forces outside your control
- Doctrine - practices of an organization. You don’t have to focus on these but they’re good to know
- Gameplay - strategic moves to make change
33:00 - Disruption falls in two forms:
- Product substitution is unpredictable.
- Product commodification is predictable
33:50 - “large language models represent the industrialization of machine cognition”
35:00 - pointing out Jevon’s paradox is going to smack folks saying you can lay people off just like they said with cloud.
Test and spec driven development?
53:21 -
Everything an Al does is an hallucination. 100% of the time, it hallucinates. It’s just that a lot of the time the hallucination is right, okay? But they are all hallucinations, is just a lot of the time is right. And so just be very careful.
58:00 - the importance of critical thinking. Being able to interrogate the outcome.
1:07:00 - LLMs outputs are biased towards a market benefit. Not social benefit.
Tech Lead Journal - #235 - From AI Chaos to Clarity: Building Situational Awareness with Wardley Mapping - Simon Wardley
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