Episode 390: It’s just a bunch of programming
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Is This a Tool for Like Writing for Doing Things?
Brandon: "I was like, okay, now that, if that existed, I'd be like. So I do every day" He says he used it to get his kids out of school for Thanksgiving in the Netherlands. The tool also helped him write an email arguing that we shouldn't do OKRs. Brandon: "It's just like a good job at explaining how a product manager uses a backlog"
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This week we discuss Werner’s AWS Keynote, Event-Based Architectures and the potential of ChatGPT. Plus, some thoughts on International Condiments.
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- AWS re:Invent 2022 - Keynote with Dr. Werner Vogels
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