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cooking 🧑‍🍳🍲

[linton @LintonC]

@neuralunlock Yep, there’s so many needles to thread 🪡

[linton @LintonC]

@kathrynwu1 @garrytan Yep, it trains systems thinking

[linton @LintonC]

Maybe it’s just not worth using these chatbots

https://t.co/MsImysuI77

[François Chollet @fchollet]

A mental model for working with coding agents is that they're blind squirrels running into a maze and bumping into walls. You must place the walls (verifiable constraints) strategically so that they end up in the general region you want them in.

[linton @LintonC]

@NotionHQ d o i t

[linton @LintonC]

@hagaetc 100%

Trying to be happy and relaxed all the time is an easy way to guarantee a bad life

[Elisa @eeelistar]

Being sociable is a skill

Self-isolation is addictive so much more harmful than you realise

The world expands and opens up for those who are people-centric, just as it shrinks for the introverted and nervous

Don’t fall into the trap of being a lone wolf

[linton @LintonC]

@fedesimio @paulg And not even the whole social media app. It’s just the infinite scroll feed that’s responsible for 90% of unhealthy tech habits

[linton @LintonC]

@Jeyffre Yep, you gotta get the edge from somewhere

[linton @LintonC]

Can we bring back the Windows phone? I think the world lost something valuable when Microsoft abandoned it.

[linton @LintonC]

@SrinivasanSS52 Rust is on the upswing with surging demand?

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@ayushagarwal @dodopayments Love this!

[linton @LintonC]

@bhalligan What about Kind Truths? 🧐

[linton @LintonC]

@ConnerBean Yep, I think every org should calculate the dollar cost of all their meetings every quarter and track that as a KPI. Hopefully then they’ll realise how expensive these meetings are and drive those costs down

[linton @LintonC]

@DhravyaShah Never meet your heroes :((

[linton @LintonC]

@e2e_developer @icanvardar Spot on!

Don’t attack the man, attack the argument. People who give personal criticism are not being constructive. And inversely, people who perceive criticism of their argument/behaviour/decision as a personal attack are also not being constructive.

[linton @LintonC]

@tylerangert Is there really much of a stigma around frontend work? I assumed people respected frontend devs more because it’s harder in a lot of ways than backend work

[linton @LintonC]

@Glenn6 @aashatwt Exactly.

Either companies will realise they still need good devs like they did when they experimented with no code tools, offshoring, etc…, or this is something entirely new

[linton @LintonC]

A leading indicator for PMF is customer complaints. If someone complains about something broken in your product then you know that they care enough about the solution to have unmet expectations.

If all you get are compliments then odds are that your users are trying to spare your feelings and your lagging indicators - your churn and retention metrics, will give you a rude shock one day.

That’s another reason why it’s important to ship before you’re ready, besides the benefits of rapid iteration and more customer insight from running more experiments.

This piece of advice is so hard to follow, speaking from personal experience. Every engineering & perfectionist instinct in your body needs to be resisted. It feels obvious as a builder that a potential user might reject your product if it’s not polished enough. But think about how many times you’ve tolerated a broken button or a clunky UI because you needed to get something done as a consumer.

[linton @LintonC]

@won__sikkk @housecor As they should. I can’t imagine a small team setting up a CI server and a Terraform repo to manage their infra. That would be overkill