Guillermo Rauch Quotes

The best feature of LLMs is the shamelessness with which we can ask the dumbest questions. Which is the prerequisite to intellectual and personal growth.

"What did your agents get done this week?" is the new perf review

There's no better investment in the world than America. Its people, its culture, its land, its companies, its freedom. Leaders in AI. There's no second place. I'd buy every stock and every square foot. It's only been a blink of an eye since 1776 and the best is yet to come.

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

Find a problem so big that you can spend at least 10 years of your life on, but that you can also demonstrate incremental progress towards.

Software wants to be shipped

Thankful for 𝙽𝚊𝙽 !== 𝙽𝚊𝙽, [] == ![], “” == 0 and “” !== 0, “𝟻” - 𝟹 == 𝟸 and “𝟻” + 𝟹 == “𝟻𝟹”, 𝚝𝚢𝚙𝚎𝚘𝚏 𝚗𝚞𝚕𝚕 == “𝚘𝚋𝚓𝚎𝚌𝚝”, and 𝟶.𝟣 + 𝟶.𝟤 !== 𝟶.𝟥.

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.

Slowness anywhere is slowness everywhere

We will see within our lifetime the rise of young supergeniuses that far surpass previous generations in both intellect and demonstrable accomplishments.

With AI, anyone can self-teach any concept, science, discipline. Agents can implement and give the individual the power of a large team. It’s gonna be fun to watch the dramatic acceleration of human potential.

Knowing *what* to code and build has always been more important than the code itself. AI has fundamentally not changed that. What you get out of it is a function of the quality of your asks.

It's a very exciting time to be in or join the tech industry. Everything seems to be working and growing. The AI momentum is unprecedented.

Every time I get a surprising result from AI I’m reminded that it’s under-hyped and its impact to the world still vastly underestimated

Imagine success being determined purely based on the quality of your thoughts. That’s the promise of AI

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.