If you only read one thingI predicted it could be huge when Elon Musk fired 80% of people, challenging the assumption that you need thousands of engineers to build a tech giant. Now the CEO of Reddit seems to follow. Is this the beginning of a paradigm shift? (If you like them as persons or not, or on what side you are on the Reddit-mod-war, this is important) This episode on Youtube For Easy ListeningTogether with Etienne de Bruin Iâm discussing a selection of these stories on YouTube.
Like and Subscribe ;-) Thanks from my â¤ď¸ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmaEPKtGXL4 Tweet of the week@Andreas Kling âI have received a $100,000 sponsorship specifically for Ladybird browser development! đ¤đđâ https://twitter.com/awesomekling/status/1670298370550779905 Iâve been using Firefox for decades now (since Mosaic days), but Iâm unhappy. Theyâve spent $ 6 billion (!) on Firefox, and the browser is not the best in the field, sometimes itâs unbearable (especially on mobile) to use. I guess a lot of people got rich on this, but users got a bad browser. Now Andreas shows with Ladybird that one person can build a browser. I have great hopes (again this challenges the assumption that you need hundreds of engineers to achieve something significant) for this one.
Stories Iâve enjoyed this weekImaginary Problems Are the Root of Bad Software (13 minute read) I do think this is core of many challenges in development: âMost programmers want to get paid and have fun at the same time.â And fun is not playing video games. Fun explains why developers love to build infrastructure: âOf course, the definition of âfunâ is different for everyone, but for many engineers, it boils down to tackling interesting and challenging problems that are within the realm of solvability.â Deep features, baby - those shallow write-a-form-to-a-database feature are not interesting. You wonder why developers seemed bored in meetings with product management? This is the reason. You wonder why developers change frameworks every six months? This is the reason. Theyâre bored. And stressed is not the opposite of being bored. The article goes deeper into reasons and why these lead to bad software. https://cerebralab.com/Imaginary_Problems_Are_the_Root_of_Bad_Software Estimation Isnât for Everyone (10 minute read) Estimation arrived at the NYT. Hurray. And itâs about not having estimations at all. ââBut wait,â you say. âBreaking down tickets isnât perfect! Some of our stories are 8s and some are 3s!â Sure they are. But in the long run, theyâll all average, so why spend the time to debate each individual ticket?â My personal take: I agree, do away with estimations, try to make alls stories the same size. People do rough estimations (3,5,7!) to calculate precise values (21 velocity!) to plan months ahead (this goes into sprint 37) and wonder why it doesnât work. Donât bother with estimations. If you think it helps developers understand complexity - itâs better developers spend planning time to see what classes, files, methods and configs need to change for the feature and find out about the real complexityânot a 3, 5 or 7. https://open.nytimes.com/estimation-isnt-for-everyone-a72484f88b27 GPT-4 Outperforms Humans in Pitch Deck Effectiveness Among Investors and Business Owners (5 minute read) Key moment, you get more money from investors if an AI has written your pitch deck. https://clarifycapital.com/the-future-of-investment-pitching Building a platform that open sources itself (2 minute read) Zed is a code editor. Like many. But theyâve decided to develop in the open. âInstead of reviewing diffs, we usually prefer to have conversations about code.â Really in the open âDay one, youâll be able to listen in, watch us code, and chat with us via text. Maybe we could even hand you a mic and let you edit our code.â Is this a new way to develop? For teams, in companies, with the outside? Is this driven by remote development? What other changes does remote work bring for developers? Weâve just begun. https://zed.dev/blog/open-sourcing-zed-on-zed What AI Model Should Your Startup Use (7 minute read) You want to implement AI at your company? This goes into different models, large and small, and which one is the right for your business. https://tomtunguz.com/which-model-is-best/ Emerging Architectures for LLM Applications (12 minute read) How does LLM architecture look and how to implement MLOps? https://a16z.com/2023/06/20/emerging-architectures-for-llm-applications/ I found this one a neat hack. Creating a video, so you can create a QR code with HDR, itâs brighter and sticks out of the page. https://notes.dt.in.th/HDRQRCode The article is about delivering. Doing the things that youâre supposed to do, instead of âdoing the best you canâ I often see this with CTOs who are promoted from a manager to an executive. They still have a manager or developer mindset. As an executive, there are no more excuses. But "[..] if the way to get it done is to ask for help, then thatâs what you should do." - not enough people ask for help. Especially from their management team. CTOs sit in their closet, thinking hard about problems on their own, like they need to save the world, but t "[..] is for people to more directly leverage their leaders." https://boz.com/articles/get-it-done Software Development is very subjective (9 minute read) âMost of you are familiar with the feeling of joining a new company and have that urge to rewrite everything.â Oh yes, been there, bought the t-shirt. Weâre all opinions (and call the framework opinionated) and no facts. Accept this instead of claiming your way is the right one (mine is of course!) https://vadimkravcenko.com/shorts/software-development-subjective/ Join the CTO newsletter! | |
