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Chapter 183 The Boss Can't Be This Good at Product Development (3K)

At 10:00 AM, Shenshu Technology.

As soon as Lao Zhang arrived at his workstation, he saw Wang Xiqiang, the head of the algorithm department, carrying a small puppy and placing it on his desk.

"Huh? Is this dog a gift for me?" Old Zhang was overjoyed. "Tongtong has been wanting a puppy! I haven't had time to buy one for him these past few days!"

The company is so great, they not only give us money, they even give us a dog!
I love my company!

"No, I want you to test the effectiveness of the FOCU!" Wang Xiqiang thought for a moment and said, "But after the test, it's not impossible to take it back and raise it under the guise of long-term testing. You can also ask the company to reimburse the cost of dog food. Anyway, I only want the test results."

Someone nearby stuck their head over and exclaimed, "Wow! That's so nice, they're even giving out dogs and dog food?"

"Want some? There are several more over there!" Wang Xiqiang waved his hand and said, "Perfect, I didn't know how to distribute them, so come and take them all if you want!"

"Hiss—why do I feel like our company is becoming more and more abstract?"

“We have to be abstract…” Wang Xiqiang sighed. “If we don’t keep it abstract, the big boss will bring our company down!”

Shenshu Technology, one of the most prominent technology companies in the entire science park and even the entire Hailing City, has recently been paying close attention to the existence of FOEW.

No, "high-intensity attention" hardly describes the company's level of attention to FOEW-related developments; it's more like millisecond-level attention.

After all, this is a terrifying open-source project that almost single-handedly brought down the entire "brain-computer interface industry".

Of course, since it is an open-source project, it is not impossible to use this project for brain-computer interfaces. After all, brain-computer interfaces are not just software, but also hardware, such as electrode density, internal implants, etc., which are key research directions.

With the software handled by the experts, it's time to focus on the hardware.

Moreover, FoeW cannot cover all groups, so there is still a market.

However, the impact was ultimately enormous.

As for Lao Zhang, who maintains the FOEW open-source hardware project and has contributed a lot of code to the FOEW-APP, he seems to be a bit of a double agent.

On the other hand, he is an expert in Foew, and his importance in the company has actually increased, as he just received a raise.

Wang Xiqiang said, "The boss instructed us to thoroughly test the effectiveness of FOCU and submit a written report to her!"

"Wow, the boss just asked for it directly?" Old Zhang asked. "Why is the boss testing FOCU?"

Testing FOEW can also help us understand why we need to test this dog translator.
Although Lao Zhang himself wanted to take the test.

"How would I know? The boss probably wants to know if the big boss has really switched to FOCU! If the big boss focuses on making a dog language translator, wouldn't the competition with us decrease?"

That makes perfect sense, and it's quite reasonable.

Indeed, the best way to avoid being driven out of business by a big shot is to let that big shot go after others and spare you.

“Old Zhang, don’t you know a big shot? Don’t just sit here. Go and chat with him more, and get him to pay more attention to the dog translator…” Wang Xiqiang said earnestly.

Our company is probably the one in the whole world most hoping that the boss's dog translator will succeed, right?

Old Zhang was internally complaining, but on the surface he was still nodding repeatedly.

"Yes, yes, yes, I definitely will."

"Don't just talk about it. If you really want to persuade the big shots, I'll apply for funding for you."

Well, that's good.

Perfect timing to invite the big shot to dinner together; I heard they've recently opened some pretty good restaurants...

With that thought in mind, Lao Zhang was immediately full of energy.

He was just about to download the FOCU core and install it into his hardware when he heard a colleague exclaim, "Ah, the big boss has released a new project!"

"A new project?" Wang Xiqiang's expression changed drastically. "Is it some kind of FOEW thing again?"

Don't come here, boss.

"No, it's the full version of the dog translator!"

"Ah, that's wonderful!" Wang Xiqiang was overjoyed and almost cried tears of joy.

Then he suddenly realized something was wrong: "Wait a minute? The full version?"

"Yes."

"Posted by a big shot?"

"Yes."

"How is that possible? With that level of coding skill, the product he writes... would it even be presentable?"

They're also algorithm developers, so they should focus on algorithms and not on developing products, right?

Industry specializing in surgery.

If the expert's algorithm is rated 100 points for awesomeness, then the expert's other code is probably rated 0.00000001 points.

I didn't give it 0 points because I was afraid the expert would get arrogant.

Putting aside other things, on the forum L site now, "old-fashioned" has been turned into a proper noun by the experts, specifically used to describe their code.

If anyone else tries to use this description, they will face accusations of "you don't even deserve the surname Zhao."

At this moment, Wang Xiqiang was extremely worried.

What if the code written by the expert is terrible, and those sarcastic people on the forum criticize him, and the expert gets so angry that he abandons the dog translator and goes back to working on FOEW...

We're finished!
Others haven't realized the seriousness of the situation yet.

"Let's not even talk about product quality. Do you think the big boss would adapt the app? Impossible."

"Even the big shots can't do modular design properly!"

"Hehehehehehe..."

The entire office was filled with cheerful laughter.

"Stop laughing! Be ready to protect the big boss at any time!"

We can't let everyone vent all of the big boss's passionate criticism!

As Wang Xiqiang said this, he couldn't help but laugh.

"I'll download one and take a look." Wang Xiqiang quickly returned to his computer and opened a certain hub.

"Diting? Diting? Diverse Interspecies Translation Instruction Nexus Gateway?" someone said from the side. "You know what, the boss always comes up with really good names!" Wang Xiqiang had already found the boss's project repository. He downloaded an APK and dragged it into the emulator next to him to install it.

Then a risk warning popped up.

"Sigh, the big boss can't even afford to buy a license. This doesn't seem like a product he's serious about." Wang Xiqiang sighed.

Otherwise, how about sponsoring a license for the big shot?

He thought so.

At that moment, the splash screen demo interface popped up.

Almost simultaneously, from several different computer speakers throughout the algorithm team, came the sound of deep dog barking, along with a deep male voice:

"Welcome to Diting, your dog's language translator. I am Diting, your heterogeneous dog language translator. Before we begin, please follow my instructions for the initial setup, or use the demo mode to translate your language into common dog language..."

Everyone downloaded it as soon as possible, and the installation time varied slightly, which created an extremely complex and subtle echo delay effect in the sound. Combined with the dual-spectrum explosion audio view displayed on the desktop, the impact was explosive.

"Holy crap, no way! Did you guys see that?" Wang Xiqiang was stunned.

This animation is so cool!

It's definitely the coolest product animation he's seen this year.

Is this a product made by a big shot?

"This couldn't possibly be a product made by a big shot!"

"I don't believe it!" Recalling the old-fashioned code of the expert, Wang Xiqiang absolutely did not believe that this was the expert's work. Putting aside everything else, the aesthetics were not the expert's aesthetics at all!

With that kind of aesthetic sense, it wouldn't look out of place even 20 years ago. No, it might even have been ridiculed as outdated 20 years ago.

"Don't panic! It's just a demo animation," Wang Xiqiang said.

He then clicked a few times on the simulator with the mouse and entered demo mode.

The interaction, the animation, the smoothness, the texture...

There was a very strange feeling about the entire Diting.

Aesthetically, this app is indeed very "retro." Both its design style and interactive effects use many things that were popular a long, long time ago. After just a few clicks, Wang Xiqiang felt that many dead memories were attacking him.

It gives people the feeling of being old-fashioned.

Not the old-fashioned kind for big shots, but truly... retro, elegant, and stylish.

If I had to find a suitable description, it would be like a brand-new, ultra-high-definition, fully engine-rewritten and remastered version of a legendary classic game.

The game is still the same game, but everything else has changed.

At this moment, Wang Xiqiang didn't know how to describe his feelings.

First of all, he was happy.

"This guy is really serious about making a dog translator!"

Waaaaaah, our company is saved!
The boss's attention was drawn to the dog!
Dogs are man's best friend!

Thanks, dog!

Then he was terrified.

With such a great product from this industry leader, why would anyone else want to work on FOEW?
Is our company about to go bankrupt?
"I'm going to check out the expert's code!"

Wang Xiqiang forked a copy of the code.

Then, as soon as I opened it, my brows slowly furrowed.

"Have you guys looked at the code from the expert?" he asked the others.

"Copying to local drive".

"I've opened it and I'm looking at it now."

“You guys read the LICENSE first!” Wang Xiqiang said.

"Ah, no... how many components are there? Did the expert copy all of these from the internet?"

"Haha, what's this? So it wasn't code written by a pro, it was all copied!"

"I was wondering how the master could write such a good product! Hahaha, this long license, wow, it's longer than the number of lines of code! This is the first time I've ever seen such a long license."

"A total of 211 license statements? Seriously? The big boss couldn't have copied every single component, could he? Well, he really did!"

"I'm dying of laughter. So even experts copy code! And they copy it so thoroughly."

"I can see that the expert really can't write product descriptions; this is even worse than my copying!"

Cheerful laughter echoed through the office.

then……

The smile gradually faded.

It turned into a deathly silence.

“What F——”

As Wang Xiqiang listened to the laughter gradually subside, he no longer knew how to describe his feelings.

He opened the forum, but no one was discussing the big shot's new project yet.

Sure enough, they were monitoring the situation at the millisecond level and got there first.

No one has noticed the key point yet.

However... he felt that it wouldn't be long before he was not the only one paying attention to the big shots at the millisecond level.

He planned to wait a moment.

1、2、3、4、5……

Five seconds later, the first post appeared.

(End of this chapter)