ping your gut more often!
as the world around us accelerates, being analytical/intentional is extremely important but slow. intuition is, imo, the best enabler for fast and high-decision leverage.
the challenge is it only gets better as you lean on it, so your fault tolerance and correction speed need to be much higher to compensate for the various mistakes you make.
this is our build cost over this year, and we're still fewer than 10 engineers.
over the last few months, we've started running into problems i used to see at companies with hundreds of engineers, e.g. build machines getting strained, merge queues backing up, etc...
@AnthropicAI's post about git made this click for me. as agents grow in number and work for longer, they're stress testing the engineering infra and workflows we've relied on for years.
small teams are hitting infrastructure problems that used to come with a much larger org. someone is going to rethink code infrastructure around this, and win big in the process!