This article is pretty bad, even as sensational articles go. Scheduling an AI Hackathon isn’t really the same as ordering people to have fun, plus they calceled it after a bunch of people said they couldn’t participate.
Depends on internal messaging. I’ve been at places where all the non-techie people are cheerleading for the “hackathon” - and then start doing nearly everything possible to make what is already a kind of “forced fun” activity very, very, very unfun.
Like dictating all the terms, expected outcomes, what is in-bounds to work on (often just chosen tech debt items, lol) and then, making it a fucking contest on top of that.
But everyone is expected to plaster on big, shit-eating grins and have “fun” because we were “allowed” to “hack” on “fun” projects.
This article is pretty bad, even as sensational articles go. Scheduling an AI Hackathon isn’t really the same as ordering people to have fun, plus they calceled it after a bunch of people said they couldn’t participate.
Depends on internal messaging. I’ve been at places where all the non-techie people are cheerleading for the “hackathon” - and then start doing nearly everything possible to make what is already a kind of “forced fun” activity very, very, very unfun.
Like dictating all the terms, expected outcomes, what is in-bounds to work on (often just chosen tech debt items, lol) and then, making it a fucking contest on top of that.
But everyone is expected to plaster on big, shit-eating grins and have “fun” because we were “allowed” to “hack” on “fun” projects.