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Few programmers of large computer systems could resist the temptation to leave themselves a secret entrance. Partly it was common sense: if inept users locked up the system—and then called you for help—you always had a way to get in and repair the mess. And partly it was a kind of signature: Kilroy was here.

Michael Crichton • Jurassic Park: A Novel

The Serendipity Machine

Hal Triedman joinreboot.org

If you have to be correct and you’ve got a very long and fat tail of use cases, either you do all of the work technically or you hire people. Often, we hire people. That’s a variable cost. Second, because the tails of the solutions tend to be so long—think something like self-driving where there are so many exceptions that could possibly happen—the... See more

Sarah Wang • What Builders Talk About When They Talk About AI | Andreessen Horowitz

Meanwhile, a lower cost to creating new programs also means a shorter half-life for a given piece of code

Byrne Hobart • Software is the new Hardware

Cool Code, Bro: Brogrammers, Geek Anxiety and the New Tech Elite

Nick Parish

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These firms thus use technology to eliminate the jobs of what used to be an enormous hierarchy of managers (or a hierarchy of individual firms acting as suppliers), replacing them with a relatively flat network managed by algorithms, network-based reputation systems, and marketplace dynamics.

Tim O'Reilly • Wtf?

Early on, as a search technology company, we worried about Verity, PLS, Open Text. We were too young to realize that existing companies' biggest problem is legacy. Period. They can't focus on new businesses because they've got to manage their old ones. And so when we moved to web search, it was never clear to us that Verity, PLS, and Open Text woul

Jessica Livingston • Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days

Let's return to that $200,000/year programmer. You can rent 1 AMD EPYC core from Hetzner for $55/year (they sell them in bulk, $220/month for a box of 48, so 220 x 12 / 48 = 55). That means the price of one biological core is the same as the price of 3663 silicon cores. Meaning that if you manage to make the bio core 10% more efficient, you will ha... See more

David Heinemeier Hansson (dhh@hey.com) • Optimize for Bio Cores First, Silicon Cores Second

Whatever your day job, you, me, all of us are working for the tech companies for no pay. Free stuff is not free. Give your data, give yourself.