@ohashimasaki: Roland’s newsletter (in the Roland dressing room), Why do engineers develop on their own? I’m amused by that. ā€œThe reason why I’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 don’t know how long what we want to do will actually take…so we make it secretly and silently, let them hear it when it’s done, and mount it…we can’t do that if everything the engineers do is controlled.ā€ This is what is being lost in IT companies…

ā€œIf we were to proceed with everything just as planned, it would be a boring instrument. Planning gets in the way…In a way, it’s an organized crime…because you have to believe that they are doing it on their own because they want to ā€œplease the customer. I can’t trust them if I suspect that if I don’t manage them, they will slack off.ā€ - If you build it as planned, you’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 it’s published in a back issue, I’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 Lab’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.
    • We’re not explicitly discussing it or writing it into the rules, but we’re actually doing it.
    • It’s outrageous to do something that isn’t in the plan! If you want to do research on drawing AI, put it in next year’s annual plan and do it next year!ā€ No one would say such a thing.

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