Every company needs a DM POC - someone high up who you can just DM the most obvious things and who shortcuts the PM hierarchy. - Andrej Karpathy

Input optional product

Don't ask your users for input. Coming up with input is hard, and a barrier to use. Think of users as wanting to play. We have AI - predict the input! Design products into autonomous environments. Allow users to play by steering a bit.

Tired: elaborate docs pages for your product/service/library with fancy color palettes, branding, animations, transitions, dark mode, …

Wired: one single docs .md file and a “copy to clipboard” button.

I've never felt this much behind as a programmer. The profession is being dramatically refactored as the bits contributed by the programmer are increasingly sparse and between. I have a sense that I could be 10X more powerful if I just properly string together what has become available over the last ~year and a failure to claim the boost feels decidedly like skill issue. There's a new programmable layer of abstraction to master (in addition to the usual layers below) involving agents, subagents, their prompts, contexts, memory, modes, permissions, tools, plugins, skills, hooks, MCP, LSP, slash commands, workflows, IDE integrations, and a need to build an all-encompassing mental model for strengths and pitfalls of fundamentally stochastic, fallible, unintelligible and changing entities suddenly intermingled with what used to be good old fashioned engineering. Clearly some powerful alien tool was handed around except it comes with no manual and everyone has to figure out how to hold it and operate it, while the resulting magnitude 9 earthquake is rocking the profession. Roll up your sleeves to not fall behind.