Randall NOVAL 🦋 @starfysh.net

Product & Engineering Leader Focused on Delivering Profitable Growth, and Creating the Best Place to Work. Founder. fCPO + fCTO.
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[Chon Tang @chontang]

Speaking as a Berkeley guy heart/soul (hello @SkyDeck_Cal), I can't talk ENOUGH about how important open source is:

- for the software / internet ecosystem we've been blessed with;
- for continued growth of a healthy LLM ecosystem;
- for venture as a way of funding companies that provide genuine innovation and value;
- and for HUMANITY.

Thank you Bill for laying out so many excellent points about the history of open source, and framing it in a way that executives and VCs can understand.

For *users* out there, I'd just like you to imagine a future where open source does NOT win:

- the automation workflows you're building are designed to lock you into Claude, OpenAI, etc;

- you do *not* own the workflows - good luck exporting it to a different platform, especially once you've invested months / years perfecting it;

- when that moment hits, you are no longer the "user", you become a digital serf. The closed source platform you are embedded in will milk your workflow for every last bit of economic value - you will pay $100, $1k, $10k/month... you will be squeezed until you earn barely enough to survive.

Avoid lock-in, avoid becoming a slave to the system - OWN your workflow, OWN your own intelligence.

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[Supabase @supabase]

frontend devs like "app is finished"

[Kent Beck 🌻 @KentBeck]

for each desired change, make the change easy (warning: this may be hard), then make the easy change

[Randall NOVAL 🦋 @starfysh.net @randynov]

Focus is essential for effective delivery, whether you're an IC or a CXO. From Gerald M. Weinberg's "Quality Software Management: Systems Thinking," each additional task reduces productivity by 20%. >30 years later and we still have challenges.

https://t.co/TWNT6726no

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