I don’t think the artist should be irrelevant - the art is the expression of the artist’s emotions. Knowing about the artist unlocks a lot of depth in the art, it’s an attempt to share and express their perspective…
It also makes a boring one. Friction is where interesting experiences, stories, and cultures are born.
On the other end of it, people regularly leave out the "why" and "how". Why do software factories not work at scale right now? What are the pieces of building software that agents don't excel at? Is it possible that the…
The devices were slowed because aging batteries creates unstable performance. It wasn't done to intentionally make them obsolete.
Where are you storing and fetching the users data to be able to query it in-browser? Are you pointing it at S3? Investigating a similar use case and trying to figure out what our infra could look like!
I'm sorry but it doesn't seem like you've actually read, or at least internalized, the article? These are direct quotes: > The nice thing about boringness (so constrained) is that the capabilities of these things are…
lol they're definitely not iterating on code. Instead they iterate on "ideas", with the expectation that code no longer matters because complexity will be self-resolving with agentic loops. Unfortunately these tools,…
The justification I’ve been getting from others is that future models will resolve all the tech debt, so paying a cost to iterate fast now is worth it. We may be way past the point.
While it shouldn't be the absolute guide for every technical decision, it helps to have abstractions to capture the intuition and years of experience that goes into choosing a solution. It can make the discussions…
Really appreciate the reply :) I’ve read a ton on ADHD and pretty suspect that I do have it, but didn’t want to claim anything before going through a proper diagnosis (which I’ll get to, eventually!). I just ordered…
I’ve never been diagnosed with ADHD but this comment hits home. I also struggle to juggle multiple tasks and I’ve had to build a lot of personal strategies to be productive at my job. Otherwise I’d stay scatterbrained…
I’m just holding out for when this stuff becomes mainstream and automatically built into tooling. I don’t want to hold a retro with my agent. I actually want to spend as little time as possible talking with it.
I’m noticing a big divide between engineers who work in computational/library work and product work. And maybe a lot of this is coming from how we have to interact with people and how requirements are formed. I’m the…
Did you maybe consider that the 10 year timeline is not denial, but actually well educated reasoning based on Yuval’s experience and understanding of the problem space? You shouldn’t dismiss people’s thoughts as denial…
> hey, I don’t know the answer to your question but I went through Claude and got this response. Let me know if that answers your question otherwise we can dig deeper together That’s all you have to add to make this…
I do this often, I manage to get the results I’m looking for
How do you know your testing is complete if you're not sure what the underlying code does?
I don't think this argument holds. The OP made the very good point that most quality software teams are composed of both seniors and juniors, with the seniors (and even staff members sometimes) drawing the lines so that…
Reading is beautiful because of language's inability to fully capture emotion and reality. Every author tries to tell a story in the way they think captures their perspective best. Every author and book you read is a…
you should really consider trying things that don't exactly fit your ideals. Listen to music you don't think you'll like, or watch a movie that you've never heard of. You find threads that you do like and learn to…
this doesn't work in any truly complex system. If the entire organization's shared understanding could be captured in a few documents, software engineering would've been a solved problem ages ago.
Thanks, that makes sense! I’m realizing that’s how I’ve been learning to approach it too and seeing the best results.
Do you feel like the ideas you’re getting from brainstorming these days are the same level of quality as in the past? I’ve been doing some of the same, but I’ve also been feeling like the downtime where I’m genuinely…
The indigenous populations probably would.
I resent my recent ancestors for tearing up all our cities in favour of motorways, and grateful only that it wasn’t worse. They thought that was progress though, and that cars were the only way to move into the future.…
I don’t think the artist should be irrelevant - the art is the expression of the artist’s emotions. Knowing about the artist unlocks a lot of depth in the art, it’s an attempt to share and express their perspective…
It also makes a boring one. Friction is where interesting experiences, stories, and cultures are born.
On the other end of it, people regularly leave out the "why" and "how". Why do software factories not work at scale right now? What are the pieces of building software that agents don't excel at? Is it possible that the…
The devices were slowed because aging batteries creates unstable performance. It wasn't done to intentionally make them obsolete.
Where are you storing and fetching the users data to be able to query it in-browser? Are you pointing it at S3? Investigating a similar use case and trying to figure out what our infra could look like!
I'm sorry but it doesn't seem like you've actually read, or at least internalized, the article? These are direct quotes: > The nice thing about boringness (so constrained) is that the capabilities of these things are…
lol they're definitely not iterating on code. Instead they iterate on "ideas", with the expectation that code no longer matters because complexity will be self-resolving with agentic loops. Unfortunately these tools,…
The justification I’ve been getting from others is that future models will resolve all the tech debt, so paying a cost to iterate fast now is worth it. We may be way past the point.
While it shouldn't be the absolute guide for every technical decision, it helps to have abstractions to capture the intuition and years of experience that goes into choosing a solution. It can make the discussions…
Really appreciate the reply :) I’ve read a ton on ADHD and pretty suspect that I do have it, but didn’t want to claim anything before going through a proper diagnosis (which I’ll get to, eventually!). I just ordered…
I’ve never been diagnosed with ADHD but this comment hits home. I also struggle to juggle multiple tasks and I’ve had to build a lot of personal strategies to be productive at my job. Otherwise I’d stay scatterbrained…
I’m just holding out for when this stuff becomes mainstream and automatically built into tooling. I don’t want to hold a retro with my agent. I actually want to spend as little time as possible talking with it.
I’m noticing a big divide between engineers who work in computational/library work and product work. And maybe a lot of this is coming from how we have to interact with people and how requirements are formed. I’m the…
Did you maybe consider that the 10 year timeline is not denial, but actually well educated reasoning based on Yuval’s experience and understanding of the problem space? You shouldn’t dismiss people’s thoughts as denial…
> hey, I don’t know the answer to your question but I went through Claude and got this response. Let me know if that answers your question otherwise we can dig deeper together That’s all you have to add to make this…
I do this often, I manage to get the results I’m looking for
How do you know your testing is complete if you're not sure what the underlying code does?
I don't think this argument holds. The OP made the very good point that most quality software teams are composed of both seniors and juniors, with the seniors (and even staff members sometimes) drawing the lines so that…
Reading is beautiful because of language's inability to fully capture emotion and reality. Every author tries to tell a story in the way they think captures their perspective best. Every author and book you read is a…
you should really consider trying things that don't exactly fit your ideals. Listen to music you don't think you'll like, or watch a movie that you've never heard of. You find threads that you do like and learn to…
this doesn't work in any truly complex system. If the entire organization's shared understanding could be captured in a few documents, software engineering would've been a solved problem ages ago.
Thanks, that makes sense! I’m realizing that’s how I’ve been learning to approach it too and seeing the best results.
Do you feel like the ideas you’re getting from brainstorming these days are the same level of quality as in the past? I’ve been doing some of the same, but I’ve also been feeling like the downtime where I’m genuinely…
The indigenous populations probably would.
I resent my recent ancestors for tearing up all our cities in favour of motorways, and grateful only that it wasn’t worse. They thought that was progress though, and that cars were the only way to move into the future.…