Hitting the High Notes (2005)
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Current LLM-in-coding trends keep bringing this post up in my head.
I see a lot of the mentioned "King David fetish" in companies trying to cut salary costs by using more AI tools.
Like, the idea that you can make something worthwhile without strong skill, by just adding enough mediocrity to make up for it.
Hitting the High Notes
In March, 2000, I launched this site with the shaky claim that most people are wrong in thinking you need an idea to make a successful software company: The common belief is that when you're building a software company, the goal is to find a neat idea that solves some problem which hasn't been solved…
Joel on Software (www.joelonsoftware.com)
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Current LLM-in-coding trends keep bringing this post up in my head.
I see a lot of the mentioned "King David fetish" in companies trying to cut salary costs by using more AI tools.
Like, the idea that you can make something worthwhile without strong skill, by just adding enough mediocrity to make up for it.
Hitting the High Notes
In March, 2000, I launched this site with the shaky claim that most people are wrong in thinking you need an idea to make a successful software company: The common belief is that when you're building a software company, the goal is to find a neat idea that solves some problem which hasn't been solved…
Joel on Software (www.joelonsoftware.com)
I always loved reading Joel's stuff, clear & well thought out.
It was especially exciting when they were building Stack Overflow, but that's kinda got buried now.
Things come & things go...