Rare to hear a founder of an AI coding harness be this honest. A reason I respect @thdxr
"We’re shipping way more hacks where we should have just rethought the whole system from the ground up, or redesigned it to make it more flexible.
So I think our judgement is just off.”
"Using coding agents well is taking every inch of my 25 years of experience as a software engineer, and it is mentally exhausting.
I can fire up four agents in parallel and have them work on four different problems, and by 11am I am wiped out for the day.
There is a limit on human cognition. Even if you're not reviewing everything they're doing, how much you can hold in your head at one time. There's a sort of personal skill that we have to learn, which is finding our new limits. What is a responsible way for us to not burn out, and for us to use the time that we have?" @simonw
In my year-end reflection, I’m sharing the projects I worked on, what I learned, plus a curated list of my favorite posts from 2025.
Read on my blog ➜ https://t.co/u0dcX9UjRG
Stripe offered to acquire us for $1.2 billion when we had $2M in revenue.
Today, we've raised $330M at an $8B valuation and reached $1B ARR.
We could've died three times during this journey.
This is the story I've never told anyone before:
The highest-performing developers I worked with at Amazon asked better questions than everyone else.
After 18 years in tech, here's what I learned: while average engineers jump to solutions, exceptional ones pause to ask the right questions first.
The 6 questions that separated high performers:
"What problem are we actually solving?"
"What happens when this fails?"
"How will we know if this is working?"
"What's the simplest solution that could work?"
"Who else has solved this?"
"What are we NOT going to do?"
The career-changing insight: The quality of your questions determines the quality of your solutions.
These thinking patterns apply beyond engineering to any complex problem-solving role.
More systematic approaches to advancing your tech career: https://t.co/PCtle2FWwH
Run @langchain locally in 15 mins: no API key, no cost, full privacy
Perfect for LLM beginners who want to build fast without the paywall
https://t.co/RaZznxSU9I
#LLM#LangChain#Ollama#Python
This Lando Norris website is insane
I dove into the code and broke it all down. Some really neat 3D effects along with scrolling and next level animations
https://t.co/xJpT6oub7p
Building this workout app and just shipped an AI feature: hit a button, and it analyzes your workout data (exercises, reps, weights) to provide personalized insights and training evaluations. What do you think? After your next workout, would you actually tap this button?
You've been asking for more mobile updates. There's more to come, but as of today we are officially unveiling our ✨new studio design✨.
This will allow you to make multiple audio overviews per notebook, including different languages, lengths, customizations, and more!
I miss the handmade games of old: built for pure fun, not endless engagement loops. Modern games often prioritize retention with daily rewards and microtransactions. That’s why I’m crafting this game for those who love the joy of true gaming #IndieDev#GameDev
Many people predicted that Google would be screwed with the rise of ChatGPT, etc.
Quite the opposite is happening.
Here's Google's Head of Search @rmstein on what he's seeing.
People will say you’re unqualified.
They’ll call what you’re doing inappropriate.
That’s when you know you’re on the right track.
Paul Graham on building from the margins:
Struggling with overthinking? 📹 This AI generated video summarizes a psychologist’s tips that helped me quiet my inner critic #Overthinking#PersonalGrowth
https://t.co/DyfGWzLvIq
What makes a standout software engineer?
Charles-Axel Dein (@d3in) was engineer no 20 at Uber, hired me there and was my manager for years (a great manager, I might add.) He answers, shares what a standout engineer looks like at CloudKitchens, today: