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A hand-grenade whose pull-ring has a circular tag with the number 1 in the center of it dangling from it. Next to it, in dripping letters, is the phrase 'Customer service department - take a number,' over the glaring red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' Behind the scene is a confusion of gears and mechanisms.

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Dennis Mansell
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr I was recently lectured by a software development manager that I should attend the 'daily standup'. When I asked why they thought that was the case, they live-chatGPTed the answer. Honestly, I preferred it when managers stuck to misquoting the Scrum Guide. Definitely a prime candidate for replacement by AI.