[!NOTE] A great one would be to have a panel of designers rank screenshots of product outputs for a prompt - but instead we get endless math, science and SWE benchmarks that don’t really cover this.
[!NOTE] When you type a sentence into a search box, it’s easy to imagine the search engine seeing the same thing you do. In reality, search engines (or search databases) don’t store blobs of text, and they don’t store sentences. They don’t even store words in the way we think of them.
[!NOTE] When words themselves lose specific meaning, the ambiguity of grammar takes over: it accommodates emotional uncertainty, knowledge uncertainty, and relational uncertainty. It is the “Void”—reading the air. Speaking, yet saying nothing.
[!NOTE] Every obscure name is a transaction cost levied on every developer who encounters it. Clarity isn’t boring, it’s respect for your users’ time and cognitive resources.
[!NOTE] GraphQL solves a real problem, but that problem is far more niche than people admit. Most frontend and full-stack developers are far more experienced with REST than GraphQL. REST is boring, but boring scales extremely well. GraphQL isn’t bad. It’s just niche. And you probably don’t need it.
[!NOTE] If a city, a town, even a building, is not undergoing upgrade, repairs, and new additions, that means it is dying. That constant din of work is the pulse of life for human environments. Endless work — re-working stuff you just finished — is not just a sign of growth. Growth certainly entails the disruptions of noisy construction. Construction, then, is a sign of metabolism, of health. For me it flipped the valence from construction is a bug, to construction is a feature.
[!NOTE] Six decades into the computer revolution, four decades since the invention of the microprocessor, and two decades into the rise of the modern Internet, all of the technology required to transform industries through software finally works and can be widely delivered at global scale.
[!NOTE] Software has bugs to fix, scale problems to solve, security issues to patch and that isn’t changing. Agents ease complex maintenance tasks and prevent internal tools from becoming single-person knowledge silos by preserving and explaining context through artifacts like AGENTS.md SaaS without a clear moat or proprietary knowledge will face intense competition and a sharply higher bar to survive.
[!NOTE] The strongest apps are tightly scoped, intuitive in chat, and deliver clear value by either completing real-world workflows that start in conversation or enabling new, fully AI-native experiences inside ChatGPT.