Category: systems engineering
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ChatGPT and I: Mutual seduction
In 1971, I began using the distinction between a bug and a feature in my work as a PDP-8 programmer. That distinction proved itself to be useful, and I relied on it through the rest of my systems engineering career, from which I retired in 2003. In 2024, I noticed the bug versus feature distinction…
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Enter ChatGPT
After discussing ChatGPT with Andy, who had had good results collaborating with it in writing projects, I decided to try it out on documenting my claim to origination of the subject phrase. Here is what we came up with. It’s Not a Bug; It’s a Feature My employment at Digital Equipment Corporation began in October…
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It’s not a bug; it’s a feature.
Over my 3 decades of employment, consulting, and personal exploration in the world of computers, I had my hands in many products, processes, and products, some of which survived and became useful tools; others were OBE (overtaken by events) and became lessons maybe learned for the next try. I don’t count any of them as…
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Story from an office wall, ca. 1978
By Khalila RedBird Post date March 12, 2016 If you are unhappy … Once upon a time, there was a non-conforming sparrow that decided not to fly south for the winter. However, soon the weather turned so cold that he reluctantly started to fly south. In a short time, ice began to form on his…
