Expressing yourself well compounds. You don't just understand your current ideas better. You're also more likely to have the new ideas that follow fr… - Paul Graham

think language designers would do better to consider their target user to be a genius who will need to do things they never anticipated, rather than a bumbler who needs to be protected from himself. The bumbler will shoot himself in the foot anyway.

If you can’t find ten Lisp hackers, then your company is probably based in the wrong city for developing software

Vibe coding is here to stay. I'd been worried it might be a fad, but I talked to the founder of an infrastructure company who's in a position to see how well vibe-coded apps are doing, and he said a lot of them are making money.