It's another episode of User Stories and Market Factors as we try to help some Redditors with their questions and look at recent news.

Whether it's what to do when you get vague incomplete user stories from a business analyst, prioritizing bugs and tech debt with or with out a product manager's help, or figuring out how to map the architecture of your company's software platforms, we've got some (hopefully) helpful advice.

And then we look at some recent changes at Twitter (now X), including a disastrous Find/Replace update and a change to how new users can't really do much without paying Elon first. And then a look at Post.News shutting down and what that says about the current state of the social network landscape, as well as following up on the latest with Apple's antitrust suits in the EU and US.

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This week we dive back into some more Reddit user questions and help a UX person understand how they can work with Agile engineering teams, as well as discuss the myriad benefits of Product Managers learning to turn data into information with SQL.

Also, some news items, including a global internet disaster averted at the last minute, Tesla's Cybertruck getting recalled, and the stock market reacts to AI earnings results.

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On this weeks' show we talk about the future of the data science role as low-code/no-code and other AI tools enable more people to work with machine learning models and generate business results.

Also, we dig into the importance of partnering closely with Product Management and Engineering, and Andrew waxes poetic about his future AI post-scarcity utopia.

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In Part 1 of a two-part episode, we talk with David Scripka about all things Data Science and Machine Learning. From what data scientists do to how machine learning models work, as well as the scary-fast evolution of the Large Language Models like ChatGPT, we cover some basics to help people understand what goes into making these AI models work.

In Part 2 next week, we'll cover the rapidly changing landscape of low-code/no-code solutions that are lowering the barrier of entry for data scientists, as well as the crucial collaboration that will need to happen between product management, engineer, and data science as we all venture forward into this new AI future.

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This week we take a look at the Normalization of Deviance, a term coined by Diane Vaughan as she researched what really happened to the Challenger space shuttle in 1986. We talk about ways, big and small, that this anti-pattern can affect everything from massive enterprises like Boeing to startup software companies.

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It's another dual-topic episode where we answer questions, give advice, and look at some recent news stories.

We start with some questions debating User Stories vs Wireframes, how to break an Epic into User Stories, and whether you can be a Product Manager and be liked.

And then we dig into the latest ways AI is enabling humans to do terrible things, including a start-up that wants to scan your junk for STIs in a medically inaccurate way, an eastern European candidate who possibly lost his election thanks to an AI Deep Fake, and the US House of Representatives blocking access to Microsoft's Copilot AI before it could accidentally leak government secrets.

Also, Zuckerburg tried to hack your phone to snoop on Snapchat.

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It's our User Stories segment where we take some questions from Reddit and try to help a few people out. We also look at some Market Factors, with the Department of Justice's anti-trust suit against Apple's monopoly power with the iPhone and a look at the state of Gmail as it turns 20.

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It's another news round up as we talk about concerning advances in AI automation and other news of the week. From Devin the AI engineer to Apple canceling its self-driving car plans, artificial intelligence had a rocky week. Also, NVidia's new GPUs will require even more electricity and amid soaring revenue numbers an alarming amount of companies are laying off tech workers.

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It's time to talk about everything that happened this year. From the ongoing disaster in Ukraine to the brewing Apple vs PC wars, we dig into the big global and tech news, including whether anyone uses email and if self-driving cars are going to put cabbies and truck drivers out of work.

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It's another Breaking News grab bag episode! From the US House trying to ban TikTok to Elon Musk getting sued by music publishers and getting called out by OpenAI for his apparent lies, we've got some news to discuss. Also, LinkedIn tries to get into gaming for some reason, and there's even more buggy software ruining the lives of subpostmasters in the UK Post Office Scandal.

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