Mark Goodhead

CEO & Co-founder, Synacti & Longshot Systems. Into Open Source, Software 2.0 and Statistics.

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In the future, the most popular programming language will be English https://t.co/N4v1mTCyPi

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Thanks Darragh, I appreciate the extra context (and a fascinating blog post in the first place!). In that case my obvious follow-up question would be how you manage the increase in complexity, not just of the codebase architecture itself, but the sheer volume of reviewing required, from LOC per month 3x-ing in such a short period?

Of course the AI review takes some of the pressure off, and as you noted in the original post you've accepted some slippage on your quality metric as a trade-off for the velocity gain (although it appears to be reverting), but do you find the bottleneck is now the review process and ensuring that any Claude architectural sprawl can still be understood by the engineers?

Finally, how far along are you on the spectrum from encouraging engineers to take the time to properly understand every line that is written, vs trying to manage the complexity through interfaces and abstractions which are well tested but the implementation details are only really understood by Claude?

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@Davidjpark96 Nothing good ever came easy 🤝

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Don't get an agency or outsource, you want someone strong in house you have high trust with.

Hire them the same way you hire any role - learn enough about it yourself to know what great looks like (even if you don't think you're great yourself) and interview as many people as it takes to find the perfect person.

Let's talk deeper strategy on this in our next call 😄

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100% physical spaces are the wrong fit for your business. If your ARPU was $10k a customer I'd tell you a different story 🙂

Do you think AI SEO is different enough to SEO to warrant its own specialist? From everything I've seen about it all the tips and tricks seem to rhyme heavily with content that's also great for SEO purposes.

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@Davidjpark96 New acquisition doing well then if it still grew healthy double digits!

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@Davidjpark96 Also I hear your prospective acquirers sucked tbh so you dodged a bullet 🤭

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@Davidjpark96 👌

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Overconfidence is loved by the twitter algorithm (and is useful sometimes, eg if you are selling something) but I prefer the honesty of someone's true position.

There's nothing like a startup to remind you, over and over, how wrong you can be on things you think you're sure of. It breeds the kind of epistemic humility David has and it's a valuable trait I wish more people had.

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@Davidjpark96 @ecomzander Maybe at some point people will realise the combination of confident and bold yet with constant vigilance for potentially being wrong is a super power for startups. Don't change 🫡

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@StokeyyG2 Wayne Gretzky is great, but no one dominates their sport like Don Bradman

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@biobootloader @gfodor @Hoarder035 Also very interested in this! I have a 3 year old I figure this is too early for, but keen to start them on the same path when the time is right...

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@Davidjpark96 💪💪💪👏👏👏

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@E2Teacher 😢

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@sama Why is the UK tricky from a regulatory standpoint?

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@Davidjpark96 The more you practice, the luckier you'll get 😉

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@Davidjpark96 "2-3 acquisitions this month" lmao my man you don't mess around 🤣

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@Davidjpark96 But also congrats on the pivot starting to pay dividends!

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@Davidjpark96 I have so many questions lol 😄

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@Davidjpark96 I promise you, it'll work out. There's a path to healthy balance and you'll find it. Always happy to chat when you're feeling stuck (or just whenever!). Good luck 🫡