innovation culture
Data management is the problem that programming is supposed to solve. But of course now that we have computers everywhere, we keep generating more data, which requires more programming, and so forth. It’s a hell of a problem with no end in sight. This is why people in technology make so much money. Not only do they sell infinitely reproducible... See more
PAUL FORD • Paul Ford: What Is Code? | Bloomberg
What happens when you give a load of engineers a brief? I always ask the question: What would’ve happened if you hadn’t given the brief for High Speed 2 to a load of engineering firms who immediately focused on speed, time, distance, capacity? What if you’d given the brief to Disney instead?
They would’ve said, “First of all, we’re going to rewrite... See more
They would’ve said, “First of all, we’re going to rewrite... See more
Adam Grant • Are We Too Impatient to Be Intelligent?
I think there is a similar fallacy for how we consider engineering organizations. Many of today’s “best practices” have been drawn from long-established internet companies like Google. However, the problem with copying their current practices on the basis of their success is that most of those companies found near-invincible business models that... See more
Moxie Marlinspike • The Magic of Software; Or, What Makes a Good Engineer Also Makes a Good Engineering Organization
We had @henrymodis to chat with our design team yesterday about AI design.
Simple and interesting to for me was that at Perplexity they start projects by exploring LLM capabilities with very simple prototypes, even with just a command-line implementations. Only once there’s proof that the idea can work consistently, and... See more
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