the whole "when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure" thing is def real
but now people think looking at any metric is pointless
the root issue is when your team is motivated incorrectly and would prefer to game a metric instead of learning from it
no bro you need to turn on “/extrausage”. dawg are you sure you have “/fast” mode on? Did you check the “no mistakes” toggle? are you sure you picked “correct mode”? did you turn up the “autonomy slider”, that’s how the pros use it,
programmers are so good at rationalizing themselves out of building things that work for a lot of people
it's why programmer takes on business are usually exactly backwards
you used to spend a day messing with your neovim config, feel self conscious, then get back to work
now people are spending weeks on some hyper customized coding agent workflow that definitely is worse than vanilla but they can talk about it like they're ahead of the game
in large part because of the website they dropped a few weeks (days?) before the album. I enjoyed traversing the 3d scan on there
https://t.co/60YdGX2dlS
In the era of AI development, how do you create a moat around your product?
@johnrudolphdrex thinks there's no moat, @DCoulbourne thinks taste is the moat, but @IanLandsman says no, it's actually their schtick that's the moat for their new app Tidy.