Guillermo Rauch Quotes

Focus on the things you can control. Work hard, eat well, stay fit, help others, and crucially: be ruthlessly truth-seeking.

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.

Humanity's best days are ahead. Let that sink in

Given enough tokens, all bugs are shallow

There’s something deeply satisfying about doing a great job, to the best of your ability. No matter whether you’re a solo entrepreneur, or at a hot startup, or massive company. Entry level or VP. The first recognition has to come from yourself.

The confidence that I have in my taste, and the ability to express what I feel, has proven helpful for vibe coding

I’m convinced the gap in experience between a native mobile app and a mobile web app boils down primarily to user input at this point.

The performance gap is illusory for most use-cases & devices. Safari iOS handling of how a keyboard displays, the havoc it wreaks on the page, and limited APIs to control it are a fundamental issue.

Once 120fps animations are enabled by default that’ll be the icing on the cake. But any diminishment in the ability for a human to reliably enter information into the page is a deal breaker.

new computer:

bash is for installing zsh
npm is for installing pnpm
safari is for installing chrome
xcode cli tools is for installing brew
terminal⁠.app is for installing ghostty

2026 will mark the year when humanity achieved digital abundance. Any thought and desire instantly transmogrified into software. Apps, games, images, music, docs, sites, every one generated, by anyone.

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.

Fitness is the true “rich get richer” equation of life. The more you work out, the stronger your mind and body, the easier and more effective the next incremental workout

If you truly understand it, you can explain it simply to others. In a world of widespread, highly capable AI, it’s imperative to find the opportunity to pressure test your understanding of the world.

Software wants to be shipped

The success of MCP is the first proof point that the world favors open and decentralized AI

llms.txt and MCP feels like the beginning of the AI internet protocol stack.

As these conventions proliferate, the network gets more powerful and intelligent, and a lot more applications become possible.