Why Can’t Programmers Be More Like Ants? Or a Lesson in Stigmergy (2015)
we&#x27;re already drones. If i wanted to be an ant, i&#x27;d join the military.<p>&gt;lifestyle preferences of the extreme programmer<p>talking about stereotypes, fashion and fad.<p>Though the article does state one point which i&#x27;ve always found a funny - software teams&#x2F;organizations whose job is to build&#x2F;design complex&#x2F;network&#x2F;distributed systems fail to see that they themselves are subject to the same basic  rules of complex systems.<p>Like for example &quot;latency vs. bandwidth&quot; - software organizations everywhere are trying to introduce SCRUM - &quot;latency at all costs&quot;  process - in order to increase productivity, ie. bandwidth, and they find themselves in such a deep surprise when productivity is actually falling as result of SCRUM.