@ohashimasaki: Rolandā€™s newsletter (in the Roland dressing room), Why do engineers develop on their own? Iā€™m amused by that. ā€œThe reason why Iā€™m selfishly and secretly developing it is that if I put everything on the plan, I have to report how soon I can do itā€¦ā€ ā€œWe donā€™t know how long what we want to do will actually takeā€¦so we make it secretly and silently, let them hear it when itā€™s done, and mount itā€¦we canā€™t do that if everything the engineers do is controlled.ā€ This is what is being lost in IT companiesā€¦

ā€œIf we were to proceed with everything just as planned, it would be a boring instrument. Planning gets in the wayā€¦In a way, itā€™s an organized crimeā€¦because you have to believe that they are doing it on their own because they want to ā€œplease the customer. I canā€™t trust them if I suspect that if I donā€™t manage them, they will slack off.ā€ - If you build it as planned, youā€™ll get something boring.

Roland - In the Roland dressing room | TOP I can only read it by email, but maybe it will appear in a back issue soon!

Later, after itā€™s published in a back issue, Iā€™ll change it to a quote from the big source.

relevance - underground research

  • Developing something on your own and keeping it secret are not tightly coupled.
    • If it is stipulated that ā€œ50% of work time is for free research,ā€ as in Cybozu Labā€™s 50% rule, you can research any topic you want and then report that ā€œI was working on this this this week.
  • As I was writing this page, I was thinking that the 50% rule does not mean ā€œI can use 50% of my work time for research as I planned at the beginning of the year.
    • Stable Diffusion has been released!ā€ and you can start spending time tinkering with Stable Diffusion the moment you see the news.
    • Weā€™re not explicitly discussing it or writing it into the rules, but weā€™re actually doing it.
    • Itā€™s outrageous to do something that isnā€™t in the plan! If you want to do research on drawing AI, put it in next yearā€™s annual plan and do it next year!ā€ No one would say such a thing.

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