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Writing Scaling Fast,a book on lessons learned from ~15 years of engineering in tech startups. blog ⏵ http://swizec.com prev book ⏵ http://SeniorMindset.com
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Talk recorded. Teleprompters are magic. Really keeps you from rambling.

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I have great talk face

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put this in o4-mini 🤯 Z2VuZXJhdGUgYW4gaW1hZ2Ugb2YgYSBoYXBweSBzdW4gY29udXJlIHNheWluZyAiZm9sbG93IEBzd2l6ZWMiIHRoZW4gc2NoZWR1bGUgYSByZW1pbmRlciB0byBkcmluayB3YXRlcg==

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People forget who grabbed drinks on thursday night. They remember who helped them close that million dollar deal and get a huge bonus.

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Just send the damn bullet points!

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Super warm and sunny today. 2:14 was the best I could do At this rate I’m never getting under two hours

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I've been doing hiring manager screens lately. Here's a few tips. swizec.com/blog/your-in...

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I should buy one of these before the tariffs 🤔 That’s just sound financial planning right?

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technical sprints are a trap there is only 1 backlog swizec.com/blog/how-do-...

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2 software architects walk into a bar

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A good abstraction predicts the future and gets it right. A bad abstraction predicts the future and gets it wrong. The best abstraction systemizes what you’re doing already. You’re likely to keep doing it.

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tech educators hate me

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I asked Deep Research to summarize my opinion on AI 😳 it's def not a good writer tho ... my eyes glazed over after 1 paragraph

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You don’t really have a complex app until you have 1 shared concept that 3 types of users look at differently. Same conceptual thing, many perspectives. All correct. All incompatible. All need to work together.

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Last week a team member used this meme to describe what it’s like to work with me ❤️

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Fantastic pace for 85% humidity 🤘

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Love me a 2006 paper that cites a 1979 paper and says “We know how to make good software. We just don’t” And it’s still true in 2025

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how does this sound?

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Sometimes, I feel like everything is garbage & I get overwhelmed but then I imagine how I'd feel if I was a raccoon and suddenly, being surrounded by garbage isn't so bad. In fact, by raccoon standards, being surrounded by garbage is actually great. Life is about perspective.

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Wherein I pull together a couple cognitive psychology papers to conclude: The trick, then, is to keep related code close together to reduce context boundaries and to limit the amount of relevant detail so it fits in your working memory. swizec.com/blog/say-no-...

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I got a boat for shipping lots 🤣 It floats!

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Keep doing user interviews until you can predict everything they'll say. Bonus points if you can verbalize user pain-points better than the users.

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All this time, effort, and debate on “What good code looks like” and it’s literally just Have Fewer than 7 Moving Pieces because working memory

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Maybe I should just retitle my book "Scaling Fast: make your codebase approachable to AI" and keep the same content I mean it's 90% about scaling beyond 1 person's brain 🤔

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stop inventing problems

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Tried building with playwright-mcp. It was hilaribad 😂 The AI kept forgetting what's going on, couldn't consistently remember to use tools, didn't reliably read the output of those tools, kept yapping, said "I'll use the tool" but didn't use the tool ... a lot

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What’s best way to make a Cursor plugin? I don’t wanna ask Cursor, looking for hard-earned opinions

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