Entries tagged with: OPINION
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we don't know how to hire. we're just very confident.
After 50+ hires, I doubt more references mean better predictions. A case for humility, real work samples, and hiring good humans.
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Bidding on competitor names when buyers ask agents
Rivals bid on our brand on Google while developers send AI agents to evaluate us. Agents never see the ads.
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Get Opinionated About the First Problems You Solve
A broad vision needs a narrow start. Pick the customers you learn from first, and let their problems be your feedback loop.
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What TypeSafe Got Right With the Jev Launch
The Jev launch shows how product decisions help people understand value, try it quickly, and give them a reason to share.
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Beside You, Not Between You
The best agent UX metaphor exists: the anonymous animal cursor in Google Docs. Agents as collaborators, not intermediaries.
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A Software Factory Is No Substitute for Maturity
The real barrier to the software dark factory isn't agent capability. It's the organizational capability to manage them.
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An autopsy of Claude Code's deep research
Claude Code's deep-research workflow, pulled from its binary and dissected. Wide search, no second hop.
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A Harness for Every Run
A reflection on Anthropic's dynamic workflows post, from someone building a browser agent on the same idea.
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The Model Is the Smallest Decision You'll Make
Everyone building agents asks which model to use first. Wrong first question. The harness is where the agent lives or dies.
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Agent-Native Extensibility
How extensibility shifts from packaged plugins to agent-readable recipes, and why the connector is the new extension point.
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The Hard Problems Nobody Has Solved
Four unsolved problems blocking the agentic future: correctness, architecture drift, context scaling, and judgment.
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AI-Native Dev Teams Start With Structure, Not Models
AI-native dev teams don't start with better models. They start with structure machines can actually read.
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What Makes a Great Coding Agent
10 principles that separate genuinely useful coding agents from flashy demos—and a north star spec for building them.
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The Instantiation Era
AI just rescued a failed Mistral.ai clone in one prompt. Web development is over.
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Growth Is Value Flow, Not Vanity Metrics
Why chasing vanity metrics kills startups and how to think about growth as discovering and scaling value creation
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The Day the Skeptic Blinked
Journey from AI skeptic to convert--proving that the future belongs to experts who learned to work with machines.
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Why Senior Engineers Overlook Small AI Wins
How experienced devs might be missing the big impact of tiny AI improvements on user experience.
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Blink, and the entire AI landscape could shift
AI dev tooling is consolidating--acquisitions, coding agents, and fierce competition reshape interfaces, pricing, and memory.