JD Vance is lecturing the Pope on Catholicism and Pierre Poilievre is lecturing Mark Carney on economics and RFK Jr is lecturing scientists about vaccines and Donald Trump is lecturing the world on tariffs and Pete Hegseth is quoting Pulp Fiction and thinking it’s the Bible
james has achieved distributed opencode
agents can run on your laptop, on a remote server, in a cloud sandbox provider
shut your laptop and things keep running
open it back up and all the data syncs
delete the sandbox nothing is lost
Since I updated to 2.1.83 my usage limits are so fast to max, while few weeks ago I almost never hit my limit. Are the limit changing or a bug? :) @bcherny@trq212
things I believe:
- shipping fast beats the best strategy
- speed is a superpower
- create a bias toward shipping
- small teams ship faster
- ai-native teams will move 10x faster than those not willing to change
- landings > launches (i.e. product adoption > shipping code)
- listen, build, ship, tell the customer, then repeat forever
- you have no career ceiling
- grit > talent
- there’s no substitute for putting in the hours
- get 1% better every day
- be ruthlessly truth seeking
- the truth can be painful
- you can just change your mind if wrong
- have strong opinions, loosely held
- maximize your exposure hours
- “anecdata” > data
- seek the collective truth, not just one opinion
- communication is the job
- clear writing is clear thinking
- everyone (yes, you) needs to become a better writer
- leaders step up to provide clarity when absent
- be the person taking notes, even if it’s just for yourself
- mismatched expectations lead to sadness
- anticipate objections before hitting send, then address them
- education is the best form of developer marketing
- be authentic and own your failures
- never use the word “webinar” ever again
- being helpful compounds
- leadership means owning outcomes beyond the org chart
- influence > titles
- leaders have to do the work themselves *and* delegate
- you can write your own playbook
- study what worked for others, then take your own path
- work can also be your hobby
- this doesn’t mean you can’t have other hobbies
- passion + boundaries > mythical “work-life balance”
- your best work comes from following your curiosity
- demos > memos
- you could have built a prototype in @v0 during the meeting
- only ship things you’re excited about yourself
- hiring is what separates good leaders from great
- there are two hiring answers: hell yes or no
- growth potential > current skill
- hire people you can learn from
- hire people you would someday be happy working for
- favorite interview question: what work are you most proud of?
- always try to assume good intent
- lead with empathy
- they might just be having a bad day
- criticism is good feedback if you listen unemotionally