Yes, exactly. When you sit right next to your business users and listen to their day-to-day activities or phone calls, it is priceless "ambient information". However, if you sit next to completely unrelated, but noisy team, it is hell! The trick is floor layout. The best companies in my experience obsess about floor layout to get relevant teams close!
In my experience as a software dev the "ambient information" that has tended to be most valuable was information about how the product was doing financially. I worked in an environment where we all had offices with doors and it was great but the "ambient information" I missed was that the sales of the product weren't going all that great and there were layoffs on the way. In a cube environment I think I would've heard a lot of chatter about layoffs coming weeks to months earlier. In this case I was pretty much blindsided.
Even so, there trouble is in how well these remote teams work together. And what about team cohesion. Dont mind me, I LOVE remote teams and distributed working, but atleast in the early stage i feel that there needs to be a balance between onsite and REMOTE work.
DALL-E is next level. I'm still waiting for the day where I'd get to play a fully AI generated game with a generated story line; one that rapidly changes according to the decisions made by the player. That would be insane.
5 billion years of evolution, an endless amount of lifeforms came and went, how lucky must we be to have our one and only shot at life right now, right here. Born free of hunger, free of the primal struggles of survival, that alone is an inconceivable fortune. But not only that, we're also here in time to witness monumental revolutions, the creation of the Internet, and now the creation of AI. AI that will make artificial reality indistinguishable from reality, generate whatever we desire, live however we desire. The only limit being our thoughts.
And it's all happening now! What a great time to be alive, imagine being incarnated in one of the infinite other possibilities and having to life a normal live, that would have sucked!
