Guillermo Rauch Quotes

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.

Success in life is highly correlated to how frequently you prompt. Asking questions, building, selling, researching, marketing, tweeting, are all forms of prompting. AI is a multiplicative force of what was already there.

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

Shipping is the best kind of marketing

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.

Designers should vibe code

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.

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

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Every organization that has not gone through or is not going through complete AI transformation is effectively obsolete.

And this is not “use AI to automate customer support”, but rather, a complete AI rethink of the interface to your customer.

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.

Despite its hardships, we oughta be thankful that we’ve been given the simplest possible instruction manual to a good life.

Exercise frequently—any exercise will do—, eat in moderation, meditate / pray, learn, share, spend time with friends & family…

But simple != easy

It's an amazing time if you know what you're doing and if you don't know what you're doing

In a world of self-improving software, nothing feels more dated than "click here to update the app". This will become more obvious as the rate of software production continues to increase. The only viable software delivery model is the web's: "Hot app replacement".

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.