Guillermo Rauch Quotes

The long way is actually the shortcut

The only durable moat in technology is relentless execution

Software engineering will be completely unrecognizable in 5 years. Likely less

You can just ship your own businesses

Prompting is the new literacy

• writing style → prompt
• coding style → prompt
• color system → prompt
• design system → prompt
• brand guidelines → prompt
• a11y requirements → prompt
• compliance & legal → prompt
• vendor preferences → prompt
• product requirements → prompt
• customer preferences → prompt
• institutional knowledge → prompt

On a long enough timeline, everything gets subsumed by the (system) prompt and integrations that populate it

Prediction: software development will closely resemble the evolution of self-driving cars.

- Considered for many years intractable, now run of the mill for a large subset of rides (robotaxi), all mobility within sight.

- The key metric to watch is disengagement rate (i.e.: how frequently the human operator needs total take over coding :: driving).

- Occasional human takeover and steering still needed (remote takeover) to get the program “unstuck” or figure out dilemmas.

- Success is predicated on the successful interoperability with the existing environment and tools (existing programming languages, runtimes, frameworks :: streets, signs, pedestrians), rather than resetting the landscape.

There’s a contagion effect to good habits. When you watch your friends or relatives exercise, you want to exercise.

Same is true for shipping, giving back, eating well… Surround yourself with people who raise your bar.

The highest highs in life are free and accessible to everyone. The feeling of finishing a hard workout, acing a test, shipping great work, having a child, watching the next generation blossom.

Underdo the competition. Focus begets quality begets customer loyalty begets greatness.

Life hack: your hobby and your job must be the same.

There’s no system more fair & meritocratic than the World Wide Web. Humanity’s great equalizer.

Anyone anywhere can build any idea and share it in seconds. A link is worth a billion words.

Vercel’s mission is to make the web the greatest possible platform, accessible by the greatest number of people.

Our only competition is any company, organization or government that gets in the way of the progress of the free web.

Few things better in life than the freedom to build your own ideas.

We want as many people as possible to have a chance to experience it.

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