The PRQL: Year-End Reflections with The Cynical Data Guy: Ship Features Fast, Pay Later

Eric Dodds 00:03
Welcome to The Data Stack Show prequel. This is a short bonus episode where we preview the upcoming show. You’ll get to meet our guest and hear about the topics we’re going to cover. If they’re interesting to you, you can catch the full length show when it drops on Wednesday.

John Wessel 00:19
Welcome back to The Data Stack Show. We’re here for a very special show, a Christmas edition of the cynical data guy. So I’m here with Matt. Matt, welcome back to the show.

Matthew Kelliher-Gibson 00:29
Here to bring the Festivus to your Christmas cheer.

John Wessel 00:33
Excellent. Yeah. Unfortunately, Eric can’t be with us today, so you’re stuck with myself and Matt, but we’ve got some fun topics we are going to start out the show, which is a record for us, by the way, we’re going to start on the show talking about AI. It’s unusual. It’s Matt’s favorite topic. Oh, so much. All right, so one of the things that I’ve seen a lot, Matt, I think you’ve seen it as well, is we keep seeing these various forms that open. Ai calls it the 12 days of ship mess. And there’s basically, there’s several different software companies doing this where they’re attempting to brand pushing really hard at the end of the year, essentially to get product out. What do you think about that? Matt,

Matthew Kelliher-Gibson 01:18
it sounds like someone made promises for the end of the year, they have not kept up with them at this flame. Then some people that are like crap, we promised investors we were gonna do some things we haven’t done it. Yeah, and it’s such it’s in such a juxtaposition to like the other the what I would be used to, I think what you’re used to, too, is like we’re gonna do, like we’re gonna do code freezes so we don’t break anything. We’ll be on vacation and keep and things are very stable at the New Year. So what, how do you think this is gonna work out?

John Wessel 01:51
I mean, I think, I think it partially just garners attention, is one of the big things. But the unfortunate thing is, once one person does it and they get attention for it, yeah, then everybody’s gonna try to do it next year. And it’s, it just becomes the new standard, and nobody really gets any credit for it, right? It just becomes, oh, now we have to ship 12 features every December. Why are we doing this? So here’s an article. So open, AI, let’s see their 12 days of ship. Miss. They shipped the oh one reasoning model, which, if you’d like to spend $200 a month on chat GPT, you can, I will pass what else did they ship? Apple intelligence was day five with chat. GPT,

Matthew Kelliher-Gibson 02:38
My iPhone isn’t good.

John Wessel 02:40
I won’t support it. That’s too bad. And a couple of other features day four. Oh, and then Sora was the other big one. That’s their can create video. They

Matthew Kelliher-Gibson 02:51
still don’t have a use case for that personal life or professional Yeah, at this point, so good for them. Not something I’m going to be taking advantage at times in it, yeah, that’s fair.

Eric Dodds 03:04
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