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> get to a billion dollar valuation without at least a small sales team Craigslist came close! and that was before AI.

> The author himself never experienced the things he's writing about not all of those things, but a good part, he did. He was extremely broke at several points in his adult life, a…

by "maintainability" and "rarely remembered by the engineer" i'm assuming the bigger concern (beyond commenting and sane code) is once everyone starts producing tons of code withou…

that's a good take > getting software that does what you want so then we become PMs?

According to Peter Walker from Carta: > the company re-cap'd employees at a more realistic valuation a couple years back. So looks like all employees benefited here which is a majo…

i get what you are saying, but i don't think it's fair to call it bike shedding, getting the keys right is also important, one can easily screw up that part too

that is some brutal self-honesty right there

if this is referring to Cloudflare, they are not yet particularly known for any major non-sales layoffs, ai or not.

> the men (and woman) of the party probably weren’t thinking much about their place in history that's like the first sentence

> they were offering Java tools free to schools for teaching and research This is also underrated considering there once was an era when you had to pay a lot of money to use a comp…

https://archive.is/RXqnL

What's impressive is that somebody, somewhere keeps collecting a nice stash of Eastern Baltic cod otoliths in hopes that somebody else would come along and invent a new way to use …

same here, i dread CSS because it has to look good visually, not regress, work on a ton of devices and is very time-consuming to get right. But every time i tried Cursor with diffe…

probably meant "underbanked" - has an account but credit shot so no cc's

Yes, that's a good point. However, how much of this finer-grain lending flexibility translates into more favorable underwriting (to help cover the unbanked) is not clear. The autho…

Enjoyed the article, but the author was correctly questioned in the substack comments how is this any different than a credit card for the borrower and what justifies the "interest…

if they are optimizing for cost, which they are obviously not, then of course it would take them less to build. If they are optimizing for time, and the actual aforementioned "vibe…

it still takes time to spec out, build and sell to a comparable size user base, even with 10 people. And you're not guaranteed the same results if you just try to clone all of that…

> Code is a liability This is so true! Actual writing of the code is such a small step in overall running of a typical business/project, and the less of it the better.

Speaking for one of those metro areas I'm familiar with: maybe in SF city limits specifically (where they still are half the Uber's share), but that's 10% of the population of the …