One of the best talks I’ve ever seen was 100% hand drawn with stick figures in a crayon style. Every drawing in it was rubbish, but the presenter had perfect timing and a great sense of humour.

You don’t need good art, so using slop definitely sends me a signal.

I was getting in trouble for catching venomous snakes (alive) while growing up in the bush in the 70s.

I did the same thing, same result.

What's with the wall panels?

It looks like a very poorly made movie or TV set.

As a programmer, if your code compiles and runs but the design is misunderstood/wrong/etc then it's more problematic than code that doesn't run in many situations.

I do some financial compliance work. Not life critical but definitely end up in jail critical.

Throughout this exchange, Joel — our protagonist — brings the energy of a guy who goes to a Baptist wedding and insists on contributing by taking a long thoughtful shit in every punchbowl

hijinks ensue

Throw in the fact that we charge students HECS fees to learn and we don't tax fossil fuel exports much at all.

AI coding has revealed just how many people in our industry don’t appreciate that for any long lived code the cost of initial implementaion is absolutely dwarfed by the cost of maintenance. So much that for long lived projects we can consider: cost of code = cost of maintenance.