Kimsia

If you're small, you're in a position where it's to your advantage to be weird—you can have a point of view that the big tech companies never could. In the world of chairs—you're not going to build a cheaper chair than Ikea. Why not build something they couldn't—like a more interesting one

Coding with AI takes (and enables) more discipline.

I need more tests, more checks and constraints. This takes more scaffolding, which is now fast to create.

More “how will I know this works?” and less “how will I implement this?”

I need to learn how to influence the AI, and channel frustration into guidance.

More high-level thinking about what the... See more

Once an architecture has been defined, it can serve as the basis for incremental development. The first increment can be a skeletal system in which at least some of the infrastructure—how the elements initialize, communicate, share data, access resources, report errors, log activity, and so forth—is present, but much of the system’s application... See more

The benefits of incremental development include a reduction of the potential risk in the project. If the architecture is for a family of related systems, the infrastructure can be reused across the family, lowering the per-system cost of each.