Andrei Stoica

When bugs occur, the worst of all possible strategies is to continue writing code. It will guarantee that your code will soon have even more bugs, and debugging them will be even more difficult. The Jidoka (stop and fix) principle from Toyota Production Systems is very effective in this situation as well.

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Put through that process, reality usually hits like a truck. Many concepts that sound good on paper are infeasible to implement, or simply don’t produce the expected results. It’s frustrating when that happens, of course, but the pace of experimentation and learning at a startup is unparalleled. I think this is an especially important form of rigor... See more

This process of dynamization calls for a permanent increase. Our society must keep up and ensure material growth, technological acceleration, and cultural innovation. The ‘right now’ is a busy moment, insufficient in time. But forget about ‘the now’, as it will worsen next year. No matter how fast you run this year, next year you will be running... See more

Coding is a culture of blurters. This can yield fast decisions, but it penalizes people who need to quietly compose their thoughts, rewarding fast-twitch thinkers who harrumph efficiently. Programmer job interviews, which often include abstract and meaningless questions that must be answered immediately on a whiteboard, typify this culture. Regular... See more

For all the hype that surrounds them, neural networks can’t reflect or explain anything deeper about cultural or societal phenomena any more than sharing a favorite character from The Office can predict long-term compatibility with a Tinder match. These systems can only instrumentalize taste; they turn any expression of self into a reductive data... See more