OS matter even less than before now that you can customize everything on the fly. I deslopified my Windows laptop in a few prompts, got a 40% improvement in performance. Everything is a development environment.

I’m a Windows, and I’m a Mac, and none of this matter now.

Vibe coding is like home cooking.

It’s fine to cook the same lasagna as everyone else. You add your own twist to a recipe that stays 99% shared, and you’re the one making it, nobody else.

Both are antithetical to product building. There are no economies of scale here, and that’s not the point.

What we’re doing is inefficient. We build for the joy of building the 1% that’s ours.

If agents take our jobs, they should also take our coffee breaks.

Working with AI can only help you leverage high-density information.

But you need to gather this enriched material. Otherwise you’re going to spread it too thin, and it’ll show.

It’s great at filling the gaps. But you need to make sure gaps are not chasms.

Midjourney had the best discovery feature for LLM capabilities.

Reading from the group chat firehose and quickly grasping how prompting a certain way could give different results. Say “HDR 4K realistic” and see what happens. Incorporate it.

We kind of had it again recently with the Conjecture guy and Terence Tao sharing their chats.

Need a better way to show inputs/outputs of LLMs.

Surprisingly, we still don’t know how to build personal software.

Every tool, every convention, the whole default stack of auth and databases and deploys, is shaped for production systems serving strangers at scale. Almost nothing is shaped for what Shirky called situated software: built for a small group you actually know, where generality and robustness are the things you trade away on purpose.

You cannot put an app on your own phone without publishing it, as though you were a company shipping to the public.

It’s as if every cook on the planet knew how to run a restaurant kitchen, and struggled to make pasta for their own kids.