Everyone is now a programmer, because the present and future programming language is your natural language. If you can write or speak, you can build.… - Guillermo Rauch

Inherent to Founder Mode is the courage to be disliked. For a founder, the mission, customer and product reigns supreme. Effective leadership is not about making everyone at your company happy or producing the average of everyone’s opinions. It’s about doing what’s right.

• 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

An easy tell for how good an engineer is is what % of their time they spend on instrumentation, measurement, profiling, telemetry, analysis (and how well they leverage this expertise during incidents).

For AI to outperform human coders, the context and prompt will need to be enriched with data from the live production system. This will lead to self-improving, self-repairing software.