I work for an agency where we were all told to return to the office early this year. No reason given. It certainly isn't' because there's meetings, I need to...

Grant, I thought you might be interested to know that at a meeting yesterday concerning this issue, the vendor of the product we use was also happy to hear that...

HAHAHAHA! I like the way you put it, Grant. It is functional and useful. And I recognize that, but I tend to see the new and shiny. And for some,...

Of course they're not bad people. Just...

I'd like to click each answer here as an Answer, but I can't. Thank you all for your responses! It gives me some ideas as to what was probably encountered...

Very interesting topic, Steve. The odds of us adopting GitHub (GH) Copilot are zilch. I really appreciate your putting in a link to the RedGate blog post by Matt Hilbert....

Thank you, David. I appreciate the effort!

Thank you very much, Steve, for your feedback! WOW, that Mythical Man Month - how very far ahead of its time, it was.

Hi David, I really like the approach you described using with GitHub workflows! As I mentioned in my post we're migrating to GitHub. We've got two organizations in our Enterprise...

Thank you, Andy.

Interesting editorial, Andy. I've got to think more about what you're saying, mainly because I don't use those terms. Especially the term agency as you've used it.

I've got a question...

Where I work my boss likes to use TOAD to help me generate the code for a new database. I don't have much experience with TOAD. It's installed on my...

WOW, David! Your description makes me wonder how a generative AI would create a new database. Sounds like something similar might happen.

I think the HIPPO in this case was those Federal government officials who felt it would be best to take on the tobacco industry. Yes, they had some data to...

Now I'd like to play the Devil's Advocate and argue for HIPPO and against being data driven. For this, I'm going to use the history of tobacco and cigarettes here...