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A new essay examines whether Fred Brooks' classic 1975 software engineering book, 'The Mythical Man-Month', still holds up now that AI coding assistants are transforming how teams build software. The piece explores whether adding people to a late project remains a mistake, or whether AI changes the old trade-offs between communication overhead and productivity. Readers are debating which of Brooks' laws survive the AI era and which need rewriting.
- 2Bob Dylan's 'This Wheel's On Fire' lyrics circulate among fans●If I knew for sure that it was yours . . . But it was oh so hard to tell But you knew that we would meet again If your m
Lyrics from Bob Dylan's song 'This Wheel's On Fire', from the 1975 album The Basement Tapes recorded with The Band, are being shared and quoted by fans online. The song, co-written with Rick Danko, has been played live since 1996 and covered widely, keeping it a touchstone for listeners of Dylan's loosely mythic Basement Tapes era.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art is spotlighting the Unicorn Tapestries, its famed late medieval series housed at The Cloisters in New York. The seven tapestries, woven around 1495-1505, depict the hunting of a mythical unicorn and remain among the museum's most celebrated holdings, drawing renewed attention as the institution shares close-up views and background on their making.