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  The difference between software engineering at large corporations and small ones will increase, and startups adopting Google practices will look sillier as they can build faster with fewer constraints.

  Googlestartups

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  The difference between software engineering at large corporations and small ones will increase. Start-ups adopting practices of Google will look even sillier than before, because they can now build so much faster and with so much less constraints.

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CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO. Writes at rauchg.com.

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  Jev

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  The data and the anecdata on Jev's adoption are shocking. Everyone is adopting it. I think it's a great product, but this is also downstream of the "AI is too expensive/slow" zeitgeist.

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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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  Software is mostly dead; new Silicon Valley startups are building harness or hardware instead.

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  In the most early adopting tech pioneering place that's Silicon Valley new startups aren't even building software anymore And it's debatable if anyone will actually need a custom harness or it won't just be generically offered by the AI frontier companies So software is mostly dead and hardware it is

  levels.io

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

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  A formal code of conduct is not worth adopting, because those became struggle-session processes; courtesy without one is what actually wins.

  Omarchy

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  Omarchy is not going to adopt a formal Code of Conduct because those turned out to be struggle-session processes in the last turning. But we are going to play nice. We're going to be courteous, professional, and composed in our direct interactions with users, competitors, and even haters. Because that's what's going to pave the path to the win.

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Writer and teacher on productivity and personal knowledge management. Author of Building a Second Brain and founder of Forte Labs, which runs the course of the same name.

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  AI connectors, approached holistically, are now worth adopting despite their gaps and shortfalls.

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  In the past, I was wary of connectors and recommended against them. But after spending a month going deep on every aspect of how they work, I've completely changed my mind and am now a big believer in them.

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Founded PSPDFKit in 2011 and ran it for a decade. Came back from a break to work on AI agents — the OpenClaw project, and OpenAI, joined in February 2026. Writes at steipete.me.

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  Merging the tempting extra feature means adopting a pile of code that neither its author nor the maintainer really understands.

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  it is always tempting to add this one feature that looks really cool but what you rarely think about is when you merge this feature it really means here's this pile of code that I don't that the person probably doesn't really understand that I don't fully understand

  Peter Steinberger: "Fun Is Velocity"youtube.com

Engineer and teacher; wrote Kubernetes the Hard Way, was a distinguished engineer at Google Cloud, and retired from full-time work in 2023.

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  The alternative to burning tokens is a zero-token architecture: learn the thing, think for yourself, and finish the task.

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  Now, I post things like, "Hey, I'm adopting the zero token architecture." People like, "What's zero token architecture?" as like instead of burning tokens, you learn things and you think for yourself and just complete tasks.

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Researcher on distributed systems and local-first software at the University of Cambridge; wrote Designing Data-Intensive Applications.

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  People in industry routinely short-circuit their reasoning, adopting what they heard in a conference talk instead of thinking it through from first principles.

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  Often people in industry I feel like sort of have short circuit reasoning. Like don't maybe don't quite reason something through from first principles but just like oh I heard this from a conference talk I'm just going to go with that

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Software design writer and chief scientist at Thoughtworks; wrote Refactoring and Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture.

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  Large-scale confusion and panic is the order of the day at companies adopting AI, right across the board.

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  Um at the moment large-scale confusion and panic is pretty much the order of the day right across the board.

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American novelist and critic, author of Real Life, The Late Americans and Minor Black Figures; writes the newsletter sweater weather on literature and culture.

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  Rachel Cusk's prose imitates the surface techniques of W.G. Sebald without adopting his underlying artistic aims.

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  I believe that Cusk's own style apes the externalities of W.G. Sebald's style without carrying over his internals.

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