To write good software you must simultaneously keep two opposing ideas in your head. You need the young hacker’s naive faith in his abilities, and at… - Paul Graham

To write good software you must simultaneously keep two opposing ideas in your head. You need the young hacker’s naive faith in his abilities, and at the same time the veteran’s skepticism.

Why are the far left politicians who attacked founders for their "greed" when rising stock prices increased their net worth, as if they'd taken that money from everyone else, not commending them for their generosity now that falling stock prices have decreased their net worth?

The reason AI coding works so well is that the source code of the median app was already slop before LLMs.

"If you're too inexperienced to start a startup, what you should do is start one. That's a way more efficient cure for inexperience than a normal job. In fact, getting a normal job may actually make you less able to start a startup, by turning you into a "tame animal" who thinks that he needs an office to work in and a product manager to tell him what software to write."