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by austin-cheney 979 days ago
1. Automation (think industrialization plus firing people)

2. In most cases AI is the new Crypto (it’s mostly bullshit)

3. Focus all investment on a shorter pipeline between product imagination and pivot actions to something that actually makes money. Most businesses, especially start ups, cannot do this. This is the difference between confidence and tool users.

Typically that will results in less code coupled with higher refactoring efforts as necessary to achieve code durability freed from restrictions of current business requirements. It’s a paradox: code is a cost center and extreme durability costs much more, but allows flexibility you wouldn’t have otherwise. It’s like what credit is to finance.