Co-founder and chief executive of Sierra, chairman of the board of OpenAI, and formerly co-chief executive of Salesforce and chief technology officer of Facebook.

From one piece How is AI Different Than Other Technology Waves? (With Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor) [ACQ2] 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  A software engineer who is not using a tool like Cursor is working at half productivity or worse.

  Their words

  it's like if you're a software engineer and you're not using something like cursor to do your job, you're probably being half as productive or even worse than you could be.

  youtube.com

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  There will be no single best model but a market of them, the way the database market split into analytics stores and transactional stores.

  Their words

  And actually the reason I think it's exciting is if you look at like the database space right now there's not one database. If you want to do largecale data analytics you'll choose one thing. If you want to do a transactional data store you'll do another. I think we're moving to that area of models

  youtube.com

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  Software engineering is the job most exposed to automation by this generation of technology, and the people building it are disrupting their own profession.

  Their words

  if you tell what what jobs are most likely to be automated with the current generation of technology, you would probably put software engineering right at the top. The people building this technology or building the technology that is disrupting their own profession.

  youtube.com

Co-founder of the AI agent company Sierra, and previously an eighteen-year Google executive who ran product for Workspace, virtual and augmented reality, and Google Labs.

From one piece How is AI Different Than Other Technology Waves? (With Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor) [ACQ2] 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Building at the AI frontier is science rather than programming: you pose hypotheses and invalidate them again and again.

  Their words

  so it's not a simple matter of programming it's not you know typing into a keyboard until or or I guess asking cursor to do something until a piece of software emerges, it's exploration, it's discovery, it's posing hypotheses and validating or invalidating those again and again and again.

  youtube.com

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  Software at the AI frontier iterates in days where a hardware display takes years: a breakthrough on Monday can be in customers' hands on Wednesday.

  Their words

  We can have a breakthrough in our agent architecture on Monday implemented on Tuesday and have it deployed with hundreds of our customers on Wednesday and directly see the impact of of that work.

  youtube.com

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  Software used to make you marginally more productive; an agent gets the job done for you, so you are hiring it rather than buying it.

  SaaS

  Their words

  And in contrast to software as a service or software you'd buy off a shelf at, you know, Fry Electronics, you know, decades ago, which might help you be marginally more productive, help you get a job done. Agents, in contrast, are actually getting the job done for you. And so you're in essence hiring software to accomplish a task and get it done well.

  youtube.com

Founder of Terraform Industries and formerly a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; writes about energy, space and manufacturing.

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  Covering desert in solar panels is good for the desert: it shades the ground, holds moisture, and would pay for reversing desertification.

  solar

  Their words

  And the impact of solar array on desert is arguably positive because it shades the ground and improves like soil moisture retention. Um there like if you wanted to reverse desertification, you would basically just deploy solar panels on it and that would pay for the process.

  youtube.com

Writer and developer. He runs the Latent Space newsletter and podcast about AI engineering, and writes essays on software and careers at swyx.io.

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  Arc Browser

  Their words

  Arc Browser: I tried Kagi but too many apps are incompatible with Safari so RIP. set to default.

  swyx.io

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  pnpm

  Their words

  Used to recommend yarn. now brew install pnpm as fast node package manager

  swyx.io

Writer and former Substack product manager; publishes essays and interviews on technology, culture and China at jasmi.news.

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  Close to the Machine

  Their words

  Ellen Ullman's Close to the Machine is a memoir I couldn't believe I hadn't read earlier. Many of her observations about engineering culture feel as relevant today as when she was a programmer in the 1980s

  jasmi.news

Co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, and a 2024 Nobel laureate in Chemistry for the protein-structure work behind AlphaFold.

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  AI will not replace the best programmers; it will make them ten times more productive than they are today.

  Their words

  So the great programmers will be even better, but there'll be even 10X even what they are today. And because there, you'll be able to use their skills to utilize the tools to the maximum, exploit them to the maximum.

  youtube.com

Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.

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  The meme that programmers no longer need to be competent is a trap: the path is competence, and AI does not change that.

  Their words, before

  it's a luxury good like you're not paying the penalty for that the people who embrace it and think that they can just ask AI for everything or they can just look everything up but they don't have to understand the copy pasta that they slam into their project they're the ones who going to suffer

  Their words now

  Where I get fired up, and this ties back to the AI discussion, is when that's turned into this meme, that programmers no longer have to be competent. I mean the AI is gonna figure it out. The generators is gonna figure it out. I don't need to know SQL, active record is gonna abstract it away from me. No, no, no dude, hold up. The path here is competence.

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  AI is welcome as a better search engine and a pair programmer that does not drive, but writing the code itself is not something to hand over to it.

  Their words, before

  I enjoy it even almost like as a sort of pair programmer AI pair programmer who doesn't drive who's just there to give suggestions to know the API to do all these other things but the second it starts wanting to autocomplete my code I'm like yeah I'm out bro

  Their words now

  I love chiseling my code and the way I use AI is in a separate window. I don't let it drive my code. I've tried that. I've tried the cursors and the wind surfaces and I don't enjoy that way of writing. And one of the reasons I don't enjoy that way of writing is I can literally feel competence draining out of my fingers.

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  The Rails doctrine's 'progress over stability' is the one point that dated: churn is not progress, and stability turned out to be worth more.

  JavaScript

  On changing their mind

  I used to think it required more churn to get progress to stay on the leading edge of new stuff. And I wrote this before I experienced the indignity of the 2010s in the JavaScript community.

Co-founder of Ethereum. Publishes long essays on mechanism design, governance and what cryptography is for, and returns to earlier positions to say which parts they no longer hold.

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  Permissive licences are the better way to release free software and free content, because they maximise adoption.

  On changing their mind

  Historically, I was a fan of the permissive approach (eg. my blog is under the WTFPL). More recently, I am warming up to the copyleft approach.

Software engineer who writes the blog Made of Bugs about performance, debugging and understanding computer systems. Previously worked at Anthropic on interpretability, at Stripe on Sorbet, and at Ksplice.

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  Most conditional branches in software are strongly biased toward one outcome rather than close to fifty-fifty.

  Their words

  most branches are heavily "biased" one way or another - e.g. a "branch taken" rate of 10% or 90% is more common than 50%

  The ITTAGE indirect branch predictorblog.nelhage.com

Independent AI policy researcher; led policy research at OpenAI from 2018 to 2024, latterly as senior adviser for AGI readiness.

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  Effective governance of frontier AI requires three things together: agreed safety standards, incentives for developers to follow them, and evidence that they are being followed.

  Their words

  governing frontier AI requires standards for safety and security, incentives for the leading AI developers to follow those standards, and evidence that the standards are being followed.

  milesbrundage.substack.com

Mathematician at UCLA, working mainly in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations. Writes What's new, a long-running blog on their research, open problems and expository notes.

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  Lean and tools like GitHub will let experimental mathematics scale far beyond what one mathematician's spaghetti code allows today.

  Their words

  I think the platform that Lean and other software tools, so GitHub and things like that will allow experimental mathematics to scale up to a much greater degree than we can do now.

  youtube.com

Creator of Flask and Jinja. Writes about software at lucumr.pocoo.org.

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  Vite

  Their words

  Tailwind and vite are great, no complaints there.

  lucumr.pocoo.org

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  Go

  Their words

  I’ve evaluated agent performance across different languages my workload, and if you can choose your language, I strongly recommend Go for new backend projects.

  lucumr.pocoo.org

Writer of the blog Putanumonit and the newsletter Second Person, on rationality, dating and probability; based in New York.

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  Enterprise software clients want reassurance, support, and a credible story from a vendor, not just a technically correct solution.

  Their words

  clients want a lot more from a software vendor than a solution that performs ABC by XYZ date.

  Jacob Will Work For Youputanumonit.com

Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.

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  AI agents can now do real cognitive work, and writing software is permanently changed as a result.

  Their words

  2025 has seen the arrival of agents that can do real cognitive work; writing computer code will never be the same.

  The Gentle Singularityblog.samaltman.com

Software engineer; co-founder and former CTO of Tailscale, previously on the Go team at Google.

From one piece How I program with Agents 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Graphics chips have far more room for future performance gains than CPUs, which are nearing physical limits.

  Their words

  GPUs are not nearly as restricted in their future progress as CPUs which are far more constrained in how they can physically improve (compiler-driven ILP only goes so far).

  How I program with Agentscrawshaw.io

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  Most software has too few users or too short a lifespan for long-term maintenance costs to matter.

  Their words

  Very few programs ever reach the point that they are heavily used and long-lived. Almost everything has few users, or is short-lived, or both.

  How I program with Agentscrawshaw.io

Chief executive of Alphabet and Google; joined Google in 2004 and led Chrome and Android before taking over in 2015.

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  He would still tell a young person with a passion for it to study computer science, because AI will reach every field and first-principles thinking is what transfers.

  Their words

  I do. If you have a passion for computer science, I would. Computer science is obviously a lot more than programming alone, so I would. I still don't think I would change what you pursue. I think AI will horizontally allow impact every field.

  youtube.com

Designer and co-founder of Lux, makers of Halide, Spectre and Kino; formerly a designer at Apple.

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  Opaque, inert, obstructive interface elements will become as niche as the full-screen command line once interfaces are infused with dynamic materials.

  Their words

  Opaque, inert and obstructive elements might occupy the same place as full-screen command line interfaces — a powerful niche UI that was a marker in history, passed on by the windowed environment of the multi-tasking, graphical user interface revolution.

  Physicality: the new age of UIlux.camera

Security engineer; founder of Matasano Security and Latacora.

From one piece My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts 3 beliefs · fly.io

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  Even if all progress on LLMs stopped today, LLMs would remain the second most important development in a software career spanning the mid-1990s to now.

  LLMs

  Their words

  All progress on LLMs could halt today, and LLMs would remain the 2nd most important thing to happen over the course of my career.

  My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nutsfly.io

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  LLMs can write a large fraction of the tedious code a developer will ever need to write, and most code on most projects is tedious.

  LLMsGoogle

  Their words

  LLMs can write a large fraction of all the tedious code you’ll ever need to write. And most code on most projects is tedious. LLMs drastically reduce the number of things you’ll ever need to Google.

  My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nutsfly.io

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  The part of a coding agent that actually acts on code is not AI at all — it is simple systems code wired to ground truth, the way a Makefile is.

  Their words

  The code in an agent that actually “does stuff” with code is not, itself, AI. This should reassure you. It’s surprisingly simple systems code, wired to ground truth about programming in the same way a Makefile is.

  My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nutsfly.io

Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.

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  Anthropic prompt engineering documentation

  Their words

  I still think Anthropic have the best prompting documentation of any LLM provider.

  simonwillison.net

Computer performance engineer working on datacenter performance at OpenAI, previously Netflix and Sun/Joyent. Author of Systems Performance and BPF Performance Tools, and creator of flame graphs.

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  The Design of the Unix Operating System

  Their words

  The Design of the Unix Operating System - Maurice J. Bach (Prentice Hall, 1986)

  brendangregg.com

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  The AWK Programming Language

  Their words

  The AWK Programming Language - Alfred V. Aho, Brian W. Kernighan, Peter J. Weinberger (Addison Wesley, 1988)

  brendangregg.com

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  Expert C Programming

  Their words

  Expert C Programming - Peter van der Linden (Prentice Hall, 1994)

  brendangregg.com

Data scientist at Our World in Data and author of Not the End of the World. Writes By the Numbers, working through energy and climate questions with the numbers in front of them, and revising in public when they say something unexpected.

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  Tariffs on Chinese clean energy reduce the total number of clean-energy jobs, because most of those jobs are in deployment rather than manufacturing.

  energyChina

  Their words

  That’s because most clean energy jobs are in deployment and maintenance rather than manufacturing, and since higher costs slow down the rollout of renewables, increasing prices reduces the total number of people working in clean energy (even if the number working in manufacturing increases).

  sustainabilitybynumbers.com

American open-source program lead working on WordPress; a WordPress core contributor and release lead who writes at jeffpaul.com.

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  Wavebox

  Their words

  Wavebox — bundles Gmail and Google Calendar into a single open source app on desktop and keeps this outside browser tabs.

  jeffpaul.com

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  Firefox

  Their words

  Firefox — primary browser, because its open source.

  jeffpaul.com

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  Homebrew

  Their words

  Homebrew — package manager; I track my setup in this Brewfile repo.

  jeffpaul.com

Founder of what became Bloomberg New Energy Finance; writes and speaks on clean energy, hydrogen and the economics of the transition, and hosts the Cleaning Up podcast.

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  Carbon capture and storage cannot be economically competitive without a policy that prices carbon.

  energy

  Their words

  CCS can never be competitive in the sense of working economically in the absence of a policy framework to price in the cost of carbon, unlike clean electricity.

  Why Tony Blair needs to reset his climate resetliebreich.com

Founder and CEO of Epic Games, creator of the Unreal Engine and of Fortnite.

From one piece Tim Sweeney: Fortnite, Unreal Engine, and the Future of Gaming | Lex Fridman Podcast #467 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  A new developer should not release into an existing competitive genre: unless you happen to be the world's best at that one thing, you will not win.

  Their words

  I think the big thing to realize for indie developers right now is there's massive, massive competition in every major genre, and it's very unlikely that unless you just happen to be the world's best at a particular thing that you're going to release a game in an existing highly competitive genre and win.

  youtube.com

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  The metaverse is a harder technical problem than a web page, so it needs a language more powerful, safer and more scalable than JavaScript.

  JavaScript

  Their words

  But the metaverse and 3D gaming in general needs something that's rather more powerful, more safe, more scalable, and more capable than JavaScript because the metaverse is actually a more difficult technical problem than a webpage.

  youtube.com

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  Unreal Engine's deepest limitation is that game simulation still runs on a single core, because single-threaded programming is orders of magnitude easier than multi-threaded.

  Their words

  The biggest limitation that's built up over time is the single-threaded nature of game simulation in Unreal Engine. We run a single-threaded simulation. If you have a 16 core CPU, we're using one core for game simulation and running with the complicated game logic because single-threaded programming is orders of magnitude easier than multi-threaded programming.

  youtube.com

Computer performance engineer working on datacenter performance at OpenAI, previously Netflix and Sun/Joyent. Author of Systems Performance and BPF Performance Tools, and creator of flame graphs.

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  Major Linux distributions are increasingly shipping system libraries with frame pointers enabled by default

  Linux

  Their words

  This is getting easier in the lastest versions of Fedora and Ubuntu (e.g., Ubuntu 24.04 LTS) which are shipping system libraries with frame pointers by default.

  Doom GPU Flame Graphsbrendangregg.com

Design engineer; formerly at Linear and Vercel; author of Sonner and Vaul; teaches animations.dev.

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  Everyone's software is good enough these days, so to stand out a product has to feel great, and animation is one way to get there.

  Their words

  Everyone’s software is good enough these days. The barriers to entry are low. To stand out, you need to make your product feel great. One way of doing that is through animations.

  Good vs Great Animationsemilkowal.ski

Software architect and futurist; founded ClariNet, chaired the EFF, and has written about robocars for two decades.

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  Tesla's robotaxi intervention rate is far better than its consumer self-driving software and far worse than a human driver or Waymo.

  self-driving cars

  Their words

  That's much better than current FSD, but much worse than humans or Waymo.

  ideas.4brad.com

Software engineer and writer; former CTO of Wave, now at Anthropic. Blogs at benkuhn.net on attention, engineering management and doing hard things well.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Most software rewrites fail and take longer than people expect them to.

  Their words

  most rewrites fail and most people are over-optimistic about how long they will take

  Impact, agency, and tastebenkuhn.net

Roboticist; co-founded iRobot and Rethink Robotics, directed the MIT AI Lab, and publishes a scorecard grading his own dated predictions about AI, robots and self-driving.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Deploying a new technology at scale takes decades, far longer than the people building it imagine.

  Their words

  Deployment at scale takes so much longer than anyone ever imagines.

  rodneybrooks.com

Brazilian software engineer, creator and maintainer of GoReleaser; works on Copilot CLI at GitHub. Writes about tooling and his setup at carlosbecker.com.

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  Proxmox

  Their words

  Proxmox: main OS on my PC, runs multiple Linux/Windows VMs.

  carlosbecker.com

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  tmux

  Their words

  Tmux: Terminal multiplexer.

  carlosbecker.com

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  NixOS

  Their words

  NixOS: OS used on most of my Linux VMs.

  carlosbecker.com

Co-founder and CEO of Anthropic; previously VP of research at OpenAI.

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  It is unacceptable to deploy AI systems central to the economy and national security while remaining ignorant of how they work.

  Their words

  These systems will be absolutely central to the economy, technology, and national security, and will be capable of so much autonomy that I consider it basically unacceptable for humanity to be totally ignorant of how they work.

  The Urgency of Interpretability (April 2025)darioamodei.com

Founder and chief executive of Superhuman, the email client; previously founder of Rapportive, which he sold to LinkedIn; a professional game designer before that.

From one piece Superhuman's secret to success | Rahul Vohra (CEO and founder) 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Speed was an available brand position because almost no software has ever been sold on the value proposition of being fast.

  Their words

  I then asked myself, is the position of speed unique? and is it available? And the answer was overwhelmingly yes because almost no software was being sold or has ever been sold on the value proposition of speed.

  youtube.com

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  Business software should be built the way games are built, because products made like games are the ones people fall in love with and tell their friends about.

  Their words

  Well, I strongly believe that we should make business software like we make games because when we make products like we make games, people find them fun. They tell their friends. They fall in love with them.

  youtube.com

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  Launch-early advice does not survive contact with mission-critical software: email is not something you can ship half-baked.

  Their words

  And that's why when you have a missionritical product like email where you are interfacing with customers with candidates with investors it turns out to really matter. Email is mission critical. So it's not something where you can simply launch with a halfbaked product.

  youtube.com

Programmer and streamer; was an engineer at Netflix, now teaches and argues about editors, Vim and how people learn to program.

From one piece ThePrimeagen: Programming, AI, ADHD, Productivity, Addiction, and God | Lex Fridman Podcast #461 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Leaning on AI trades knowledge for speed, and the price may be a generation of programmers in which juniors stay juniors forever.

  Their words

  Sometimes you have to move fast at the sacrifice of knowledge, and I'm totally on board for that, but I worry that what we'll create is an entire generation of incompetent programmers who can do some amount of things well, but anything that is unique, bespoke, or requires some extra like little elbow grease, might become very difficult. It might cause a whole chasm where juniors remain juniors forever.

  youtube.com

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  The sense that programming is mostly web programming is a social construct of Twitter, not a picture of the field.

  Their words

  And so we often talk about programming in perspective of web, or something that's pretty narrow, and I think that's just a social construct of Twitter more than anything else, that actually I don't believe it's that representative of the entire programming world out there.

  youtube.com

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  For an experienced programmer the bottleneck is usually not thinking but typing, getting what is already in your head into the editor fast enough.

  developer tools

  Their words

  Most of the time I'm not thinking, I'm programming. I know what I want to do, I want to go as fast as possible because I've been just doing it for so long and I'm so familiar with the general space that it becomes a huge problem for me. I cannot tell you how many times that I've been purely bottlenecked by the fact that I just can't type fast enough and I just need to get it out of my head onto the text editor.

  youtube.com

Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".

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  Brave Browser

  Their words

  I recommend Brave browser

  karpathy.bearblog.dev

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  1Password

  Their words

  Combine this with a browser extension to create and Autofill them super fast. For example, I use and like 1Password

  karpathy.bearblog.dev

Usability pioneer; co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group and founder of UX Tigers; author of the ten usability heuristics and of Jakob's Law.

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  Vibe coding lets users design and build their own software, upending the user-centred design paradigm that has held since 1947.

  Their words

  The new trend toward vibe coding and vibe design may be upending the user-centered design paradigm that has remained based on the same ideology since the first UX design projects at Bell Labs, starting in 1947.

  jakobnielsenphd.substack.com

Software engineer who writes the blog Made of Bugs about performance, debugging and understanding computer systems. Previously worked at Anthropic on interpretability, at Stripe on Sorbet, and at Ksplice.

From one piece Performance of the Python 3.14 tail-call interpreter 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

• Our readingkorrents.com

  As software projects grow more numerous, fast-moving, and interdependent, cross-project regressions become practically inevitable.

  Their words

  However, with so many different software projects out there, each moving so rapidly and depending on and being used by so many other projects, it becomes practically-inevitable that some regressions "like that one" happen, almost constantly.

  blog.nelhage.com

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  Compiler mechanisms that force a required optimization to occur, rather than relying on incidental compiler behavior, are a more robust way to write performance-sensitive code.

  Their words

  I'm hopeful this framework will turn out to be a much more robust style for writing performance-sensitive code, especially over time and as compilers evolve.

  blog.nelhage.com

Usability pioneer; co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group and founder of UX Tigers; author of the ten usability heuristics and of Jakob's Law.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Deciding what software should do and why is still a human job: vibe coding changes the implementation phase far more than the planning phase.

  Their words

  Vibe coding can execute instructions, but deciding what the software should do and why is not automated. Product managers and designers must still do user research, market analysis, and creative brainstorming. In that sense, vibe coding changes the implementation phase more than the planning phase of the product lifecycle.

  Vibe Coding and Vibe Designjakobnielsenphd.substack.com

Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.

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  Claude 3.7 Sonnet

  Their words

  As a Python and JavaScript programmer my favorite models right now are Claude 3.7 Sonnet with thinking turned on, OpenAI’s o3-mini-high and GPT-4o with Code Interpreter (for Python).

  simonwillison.net

Principal engineer at Cloudflare as of 2026, on agents and developer tooling. Streams TypeScript, OCaml and Neovim on Twitch, and wrote the better-result library after writing the same Result type about a hundred times.

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  Treating errors generically is a mistake that leads to fragile software, poor observability and worse experiences.

  Their words

  This is what leads to slop JS/TS software. Treating errors generically like this is a mistake. It leads to fragile software, poor telemetry/observability/debugging, and as a result worse experiences

  @dillon_mulroy on Xx.com

Pen name of the Canadian-American writer behind mrmoneymustache.com, a blog on frugality, early retirement and index-fund investing that has run since 2011.

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  You Need a Budget (YNAB)

  Their words

  You Need a Budget (YNAB) is a simple to use (but sophisticated under the hood) bit of budgeting software that uses the principles of human habits and behavioral finance to make you more conscious and efficient in your spending.

  mrmoneymustache.com

Founder and chief analyst of SemiAnalysis; reports on semiconductor supply chains, AI datacentre economics and what the chip export controls actually do.

From one piece DeepSeek, China, OpenAI, NVIDIA, xAI, TSMC, Stargate, and AI Megaclusters | Lex Fridman Podcast #459 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  We will have AGI-grade intelligence well before it reaches the economy, because what limits deployment is the cost of running it rather than the capability itself.

  AGI

  Their words

  The important thing about, hey, is cost a limiting factor here? My view is that we'll have really awesome intelligence, like AGI, before we have it permeate throughout the economy.

  youtube.com

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  Training a frontier model achieves almost nothing by itself; all the economic and military power comes from deploying it, and deployment is what consumes the compute.

  Their words

  To some extent, training a model does effectively nothing. They have a model. The thing that Dario is sort of speaking to is the implementation of that model, once trained to then create huge economic growth, huge increases in military capabilities, huge increases in productivity of people, betterment of lives.

  youtube.com

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  Software engineering agents will work before any other kind of agent, because code is the one domain where the machine can check its own answer.

  Their words

  But really the software engineering agents I think can be done faster sooner than any other agent because it is a verifiable domain. You can always unit test or compile, and there's many different regions of it can inspect the whole code base at once, which no engineer really can.

  youtube.com

Machine-learning researcher on open language models; writes the Interconnects newsletter and the RLHF Book, after leading post-training at Ai2.

From one piece DeepSeek, China, OpenAI, NVIDIA, xAI, TSMC, Stargate, and AI Megaclusters | Lex Fridman Podcast #459 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  AI will not push software engineers off a cliff; it will flatten their growth curve, the way Meta's stories flattened Snapchat.

  Their words

  The big picture is that I don't think it's going to be a cliff. I think a really good example of how growth changes is when Meta added stories. So Snapchat was on an exponential, they added stories, it flatlined.

  youtube.com

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  OpenAI's claim that DeepSeek trained on its outputs is narrative management: other startups bootstrapped exactly that way and were never banned for it.

  OpenAIstartups

  Their words

  I think that they're trying to shift the narrative. They're trying to protect themselves. We saw this years ago when ByteDance was actually banned from some OpenAI APIs for training on outputs. There's other AI startups that most people, if you're in the AI culture, were like they just told us they trained on OpenAI outputs and they never got banned.

  youtube.com

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  Open-source AI is still an ideological mission rather than an ecosystem, because it has none of the feedback loops that make open-source software compound.

  open sourceAmerica

  Their words

  until there are feedback loops of open source AI, it seems like mostly an ideological mission. People like Mark Zuckerberg, which is like America needs this and I agree with him, but in the time where the motivation ideologically is high, we need to capitalize and build this ecosystem around, what benefits do you get from seeing the language model data?

  youtube.com

Creator of Flask and Jinja. Writes about software at lucumr.pocoo.org.

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  Cursor

  Their words

  It is a fork of Visual Studio Code with AI-based auto completion and code generation built-in. It’s my go-to for programming with AI assistance at the moment.

  lucumr.pocoo.org

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  llm

  Their words

  This is a command line tool with plenty of plugins that lets you prompt different models. Think of it as a command-line version of Open WebUI. It’s particularly useful for quick scripting and basic automation.

  lucumr.pocoo.org

Growth advisor and operator who has led growth at Miro, Amplitude, Dropbox and SurveyMonkey.

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  There are no shortcuts in growth; there are only patterns and frameworks.

  Their words

  I mean, I've been doing this for over 15 years. If there were any shortcuts, I'd be all over them. There are patterns and there are frameworks, but there's no shortcuts.

  youtube.com

Software engineer; co-founder and former CTO of Tailscale, previously on the Go team at Google.

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  LLMs will push software development toward more specialized code, fewer generalized packages, and more readable tests.

  LLMs

  Their words

  So I foresee a world with far more specialized code, with fewer generalized packages, and more readable tests.

  How I program with LLMscrawshaw.io

Machine learning engineer working on recommender systems, personalization and information retrieval. Previously worked on LLMs and LLM infrastructure at Mozilla.ai and on ML and recsys at Duo, Tumblr, Automattic and Comcast; wrote the 'What are embeddings?' text and ran the Normconf conference.

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  The C Programming Language

  Their words

  The C Programming Language - I've finally gotten to the point in my career where I can appreciate the elegance of this book.

  vickiboykis.com

Principal engineer at Cloudflare as of 2026, on agents and developer tooling. Streams TypeScript, OCaml and Neovim on Twitch, and wrote the better-result library after writing the same Result type about a hundred times.

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  Discriminated unions are the most important TypeScript feature, and everyone should be using them more.

  TypeScript

  Their words

  the most important typescript feature is discriminated unions and everyone should be using them more

  @dillon_mulroy on Xx.com

Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.

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  The Coding Career Handbook

  Their words

  guides, principles, strategies and tactics from code newbie to senior developer.

  blog.pragmaticengineer.com

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  De-Coding The Technical Interview Process

  Their words

  A fresh take on navigating the tech the interview process, tailored for frontend engineers. She wrote the book after she found Cracking the Coding Interview to be too Java/backend-focused. The book comes with 1, 2 and 4-week learning plans as well. A great book to start with.

  blog.pragmaticengineer.com

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  Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager

  Their words

  A hands-on book for people transitoning to management, starting at a new company or looking to make more of an org-wide impact.

  blog.pragmaticengineer.com

Systems and developer-tools engineer at Cloudflare as of 2026, on durable infrastructure for AI agents; worked on React and PartyKit before that. Writes at sunilpai.dev.

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  Workers AI

  Their words

  Workers AI has dope models for your use. No API keys when used inside Workers.

  sunilpai.dev

Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. Since then a writer and speaker: five books and 550+ articles, published first at sive.rs, which they hand-code and keep free of advertising.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  A personal website is an autobiography, and everyone should have one.

  personal websites

  Their words

  A personal website is an autobiography. I wish everyone had one. The more we share, the better.

  Come and get me (both you and AI)sive.rs

Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.

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  ChatGPT

  Their words

  1 founder who's also developer, designer, marketing (use ChatGPT to help with those)

  levels.io

Alignment researcher at Anthropic; co-led OpenAI's superalignment team until 2024, and writes Musings on the Alignment Problem.

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  Releasing open weights is irreversible in a way that deploying a hosted model is not, so its risks cannot be mitigated later.

  Their words

  This is especially severe for open weight models, where deployment is essentially irreversible and mitigations can’t be improved later.

  Two alignment threat modelsaligned.substack.com

Interface designer and researcher, known for the talks Inventing on Principle and Media for Thinking the Unthinkable and for essays on dynamic representations of ideas. Founder of Dynamicland, where he is building a communal computer.

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  Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

  Their words

  The essence of software engineering.

  worrydream.com

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  Lambda the Ultimate

  Their words

  Everything I know about programming language theory, I owe to this site.

  worrydream.com

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  Haskell

  Their words

  The programming language for the 21st century.

  worrydream.com

Co-founder of WordPress and founder of Automattic; blogs at ma.tt.

From one piece Response to DHH 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Building a business on open source is a good thing; the objection is to trademark abuse, not to commercial use.

  open source

  Their words

  I think it’s fantastic when businesses are built on open source, the WordPress ecosystem is at least 10B+ a year; Automattic and WP Engine are less than 5% of that.

  Response to DHHma.tt

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  An open source project’s trademarks must be defended, and that defence is separate from the software’s licence.

  open source

  Their words

  Trademarks must be protected, as evidenced by Rails trademark policy.

  Response to DHHma.tt

Economist writing on why technological progress slowed and what would restart it — energy, supersonic flight, housing and the regulations around them.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Investors avoid hard tech for its capital intensity while the largest returns available are in exactly those physical markets.

  startups

  Their words

  Many software investors eschew hard tech startups because of their capital intensity, but it’s hard to deny that huge returns are possible in hard tech: just consider SpaceX.

  Cargo airships are happeningelidourado.com

Thai software engineer; publishes a public digital garden at garden.narze.live and builds developer and productivity tooling.

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  Fish

  Their words

  Fish - Alternative command line shell than Zsh, I still use Zsh though.

  garden.narze.live

Co-founder of WordPress and founder of Automattic; blogs at ma.tt.

From one piece WPE & Trademarks 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  A business making hundreds of millions from an open source project owes it money or contribution, and can be refused its trademarks if it gives neither.

  open source

  Their words

  This isn’t a money grab: it’s an expectation that any business making hundreds of millions of dollars off of an open source project ought to give back, and if they don’t, then they can’t use its trademarks.

  WPE & Trademarksma.tt

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  A company that will not accept a project’s terms is free to go and use a more permissive project instead.

  open source

  Their words

  If WP Engine wants to find another open source project with a more permissive license and no trademarks, they are free to do so; if they want to benefit from the WordPress community, then they need to respect WordPress trademark and IP.

  WPE & Trademarksma.tt

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  Respect for trademarks and other intellectual property is part of what open source means, not a departure from it.

  open source

  Their words

  WordPress is licensed under the GPL; respect for copyright and IP like trademarks is core to the GPL and our conception of what open source means.

  WPE & Trademarksma.tt

Programmer known online as technomancy; author of Leiningen, the Clojure build tool, and a maintainer of the Fennel programming language.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Mastodon's web client is a heavy React app that breaks without scripting and loads slowly on old hardware.

  JavaScript

  Their words

  when you send someone a link to a post, they can't read it without loading the entire Mastodon frontend app into their browser, which will is a monster React codebase that will break if they have scripting disabled and also can take up to 30 seconds on older hardware.

  technomancy.us

Egyptian front-end developer and course creator; writes for CSS-Tricks, publishes courses on Udemy and blogs at alialaa.dev.

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  Safari

  Their words

  For browsers, I use Safari for browsing and Google Chrome for development.

  alialaa.dev

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  Postman

  Their words

  I use MAMP for WordPress development, Postman for API testing, Notion for notes and task management, Slack and Discord for communication and Keynote for course presentations.

  alialaa.dev

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  VS Code

  Their words

  I use VS Code as my main code editor for both; my daily work and recording courses and videos.

  alialaa.dev

Writes jvns.ca, turning "hard and scary" topics — networking, debugging, Linux internals — into plain explanations and hand-drawn comics. Publishes Wizard Zines, illustrated programming zines. Software developer based in Montreal.

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  Nix is worth switching your day-to-day package management to, over Homebrew.

  Nixdeveloper tools

  Their words, before

  I’m also still not sure how much I like nix – it’s very confusing! But it’s helped me compile some software that I was struggling to compile otherwise, and in general it seems to install things faster than homebrew.

  Their words now

  I’ve mostly switched back to Homebrew, nix was interesting but overall I think it’s not worth the complexity for me

Game designer and director of the NYU Game Center; made Universal Paperclips and writes Donkeyspace.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Games should not be measured against any outside yardstick — not purpose, not pleasure, not politics.

  Their words

  In my approach, I resist using any external value framework as an ultimate set of criteria against which to measure games’ worth - not purpose, not pleasure, not politics.

  Are Games Good?franklantz.substack.com

Indian software developer working with React and TypeScript; writes and publishes a newsletter at sreetamdas.com.

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  Firefox Developer Edition

  Their words

  Firefox Developer Edition for development/sandboxed work

  sreetamdas.com

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  Hoppscotch

  Their words

  Hoppscotch for testing APIs, after Insomnia turned to 💩

  sreetamdas.com

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  Brew

  Their words

  Brew the package manager for macOS

  sreetamdas.com

Cryptography engineer; maintains Go's cryptography libraries as a full-time open-source maintainer, funded directly by companies that use them.

From one piece Geomys, a blueprint for a sustainable open source maintenance firm 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  The thing open source can actually sell is not the code but access to its maintainers’ attention and expertise.

  open source

  Their words

  Clients still pay a fixed monthly retainer to ensure the professional maintenance of the whole portfolio, and to get access to the expertise of all of Geomys’ maintainers.

  words.filippo.io

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  Open source maintenance can be a mature profession organised into small specialist firms, the way law and medicine already are.

  open source

  Their words

  From the onset, I envisioned small firms of professional maintainers with thematic portfolios, accommodating diverse maintainers and project sizes, just like the specialized firms of other professionals.

  words.filippo.io

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  Companies are willing to pay for their critical open source dependencies; what is missing is a legible way for projects to sell it to them.

  open source

  Their words

  I started with a rather non-consensus hypothesis: companies want to pay for their critical open source dependencies, but most projects are not selling them a legible way to do so.

  words.filippo.io

Professor at Carnegie Mellon working on self-driving-car safety; writes Safe Autonomy on how autonomous vehicles are and are not shown to be safe.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  At current ride volumes it would take a leading robotaxi fleet about twenty years without a single fatality to show it is as safe as the average human driver.

  self-driving cars

  Their words

  At current deployment rates it will take Waymo about 20 years with ZERO fatalities to show they are net as safe as average human driver fatality rates (including the old cars, impaired drivers, etc. in that comparison baseline).

  Perspective on Waymo's Safety Progresssafeautonomy.blogspot.com

Astrobiologist and theoretical physicist at Arizona State University, working on assembly theory and the physics of life.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Life obeys universal principles, and the right framework will let us recognise life that is currently too different for us to see as alive at all.

  Their words

  I think life obeys universal principles. I think there is some deep underlying explanatory framework that will tell us about the nature of life in the universe and will allow us to identify life that we can’t yet recognize because it’s too different.

  youtube.com

Principal engineer at Cloudflare as of 2026, on agents and developer tooling. Streams TypeScript, OCaml and Neovim on Twitch, and wrote the better-result library after writing the same Result type about a hundred times.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  JavaScript has the lowest bar of entry to being productive, but one of the highest bars of any stack to building high-quality, stable, reliable software.

  JavaScript

  Their words

  My hot take is that JS has the lowest bar of entry to building and being productive (a good thing) but one of the highest bars of any language and stack to building high quality, stable, and reliable software. Very few devs have the expertise to pull off the latter

  @dillon_mulroy on Xx.com

Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.

• Our reading nowkorrents.com

  Ruby on Rails took off because its creator evangelized it by arguing its superiority against the competing alternatives.

  Ruby on Rails

  On changing their mind

  And for a long time, I thought that's what had worked. That this was why Ruby on Rails took off, became one of the most popular full-stack web frameworks of all time, inspired countless clones, and created hundreds of billions in enterprise value for companies built on it. But I was wrong. It wasn't the crusade that did it.

Moroccan senior frontend developer writing at smakosh.com; builds side projects and client work under Smakosh LLC.

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  Next.js

  Their words

  Web framework: Next.js

  smakosh.com

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  TailwindCSS

  Their words

  Side note for CSS, I'm cool to use what ever tech available out there that makes my task done quickly & well, I have personally used Bootstrap 3 & 4, Bulma, Lostgrid, Materliaze, Skeleton, Tailwindcss, Styled-components, emotion, CSS modules, Tachyons & made my own micro CSS framework called Unnamed that has over 200 stars on GitHub. Still I prefer using Tailwindcss.

  smakosh.com

Neuroscientist at UC Davis; studies memory and wrote Why We Remember.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Memory athletes were not born with extraordinary memories; they practise a handful of strategies until deploying one is automatic.

  Their words

  By all accounts, from people who become memory athletes, they weren’t born with some extraordinary memory, but they practice strategies over and over and over again. The strategy that they use for memorizing a particular thing, it can become automatic, and you can just deploy it in an instant.

  youtube.com

Software engineer who writes the blog Made of Bugs about performance, debugging and understanding computer systems. Previously worked at Anthropic on interpretability, at Stripe on Sorbet, and at Ksplice.

From one piece Stripe's monorepo developer environment 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Reliable, stable developer tooling matters more than which specific technical choices a team makes

  Their words

  The best tooling in the world will struggle to make up for "regularly losing a day debugging your environment," and so getting that aspect right can easily outweigh almost any other decisions you make.

  Stripe's monorepo developer environmentblog.nelhage.com

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  Per-engineer productivity inevitably declines somewhat as an organization and its codebase grow

  Their words

  It is almost inevitable that per-engineer productivity drops to some extent as an organization and codebase grows, even though it's also nearly-impossible to quantify that effect.

  Stripe's monorepo developer environmentblog.nelhage.com

Software engineer and educator; creator of Testing Library and of the EpicWeb.dev and EpicReact.dev courses.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  People are overreacting to the Remix and React Router merge.

  JavaScript

  Their words

  People are overreacting to the Remix React Router merge.

  @kentcdodds on Xx.com