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by ford 48 days ago
I'm really interested in how LLMs will enable more customizable, personal software. Our PMs & Designers are writing a lot of code now, and our engineers are spending time figuring out how to make a system that's easy for PMs & designers to extend/add to.

It's not a big leap to apply that model to a company and its customers, where the company builds a well-abstracted, easily extensible base that 1) Customers can easily extend/customize for their workflows 2) Customers can self-host or run fully isolated, much easier (probably not quite there yet, but is a possible world)

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> Our PMs & Designers are writing a lot of code now, and our engineers are spending time figuring out how to make a system that's easy for PMs & designers to extend/add to

Sounds like your developers are relegating themselves to being review monkeys instead of developers

In a post Claude Code world that's the job of engineers - the engineering is designing good abstractions, scalable systems, and things that are easy to contribute to. This is what the highest leverage senior engineers have always done, the audience has just changed

Engineering has moved up another layer of abstraction (just like we moved past managing buffers & writing machine code)