[acnops]

Makes me think about Taleb's lindy effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect

It's like books. Old but still relevant books are the best books to read.

This tech industry is changing so fast though. Maybe a year is too much?

[vrighter]

If a year is too much, then that implicitly also implies that the project was never interesting enough to be posted anyway. The interesting projects are interesting because of the projects themselves, not the tools used to build them.

If the software is not as exciting because the tools have changed, then it wasn't exciting in itself in the first place.

[PaulHoule]

I'd push back on this and say that the #1 problem with the discourse about AI now (e.g. why I'd almost never upvote a blog post about AI coding) is that it is too focused on 2026-02-17. That is, I could care less about optimizing to pick the best model or agentic workflow because it's all going to be obsolete in a year.

I am wary of blogs by celebrity software managers such as DHH, Jeff Atwood, Joel Spolsky, and Paul Graham because they talk as if there was something about their experience in software development and marketing except... there isn't.

The same is true for the slop posts about "How I vibe coded X", "How I deal with my anxiety about Y" and "Should I develop my own agentic workflow to do Z?" These aren't really interesting because there isn't anything I can take away from them -- doomscrolling X you might do better because little aphorisms like "Once your agent starts going in circles and you find yourself arguing it you should start a new conversation" is much more valuable than "evaluations" of agents where you didn't run enough prompts to keep statistics or a log of a very path-dependent experience you had. At least those celebrity managers developed a product that worked and managed to sell it, the average vibe coder thinks it is sufficient that it almost worked.