Michael W. Ritchie

[DHH @dhh]

Surround yourself with beautiful things that inspires you to reach for more. Then sweat the little details with the same zest. Not just because it makes for better products, but because it makes for a better you. Be someone who cares. About aesthetics, competence, all of it.

[Michael W. Ritchie @MichaelWRitchie]

Didn't Facebook waste a couple of billion dollars on this same idea?

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

SpaceX has exercised the option to acquire @cursor_ai in an all-stock transaction with the goal of building the world’s most useful AI models.

For the past few months, SpaceXAI has been jointly training a model with Cursor, which will be released in Cursor and Grok Build soon.

We look forward to working closely with the Cursor team to advance our frontier AI capabilities

[Michael W. Ritchie @MichaelWRitchie]

https://t.co/oxSBXtWhj8

[Sketchplanations @sketchplanator]

“All models are wrong, but some are useful.”
— George Box

[WIRED @WIRED]

The most widely adopted computer language in history, COBOL is now causing a host of problems. It's also dangerously difficult to remove. https://t.co/sHTZhSGBHo

[Michael W. Ritchie @MichaelWRitchie]

https://t.co/YE44UPiZJd

[Michael W. Ritchie @MichaelWRitchie]

https://t.co/1OUWIvgsCz

[Michael W. Ritchie @MichaelWRitchie]

Surprising data

[Michael W. Ritchie @MichaelWRitchie]

Speaking at the #SGAUS conference today.

[Michael W. Ritchie @MichaelWRitchie]

#SGAUS

[DHH @dhh]

So much corporate red tape can be traced to a single anecdote where someone fucked up and their manager didn't have the balls to tell them directly. So they made a policy instead. Don't be that coward. Just tell Ben.

[Michael W. Ritchie @MichaelWRitchie]

https://t.co/mJit01ynEJ

[DHH @dhh]

"It takes ten years for the culture of a great company to fall apart once the CEO seat is given to someone without an engineering or product background. That's been the story of Boeing, Intel, and now Apple." https://t.co/tD7ZzjO3jS

[Ryan Els @RyanEls4]

Software developers in the 60s 🤭