AI code generation as an agent of tech debt creation
I've disabled all LLM-based AI Assistants/Copilots/whatever-you-call-'ems in my IDE.
Greater Dan Or Equal To
i got some opinions, don't i
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Maybe don't call someone an asshole?
Arguments that feel good to make generally aren't very persuasive.
I've soured on Open Source
Look, I get the noble intentions that originally spawned the movement, but y'all, capitalism is winning, and Open Source isn't changing that fact by an appreciable margin.
Don't do your own research, check other people's work.
Like a lot of things, the phrase "do your own research" started off life with good intentions.
Twitter is dead (it just doesn't know it yet)
On October 27, 2022, Elon Musk completed his purchase of Twitter.  One week later, on November 4, 2022, he laid off approximately 50% of employees, killing the company.  You can still log into twitter.com, your apps still work, your integrations still work, but make no mistake: this
Catastrophic Wealth
Sometimes I worry about becoming rich.
Evaluating Modest SaaS Business Ideas
I'm evaluating new SaaS business ideas, and I wanted to share a little bit about exactly how I'm evaluating them.
The Least Dangerous Game: How (And Why) To Hunt Miners In Eve Echoes
Eve Echoes is the mobile version of the MMORPG Eve Online.  In it, you play as a Capsuleer, a cloned human that can pilot space ships all around a giant galaxy, mining, hunting pirates, or being a pirate yourself.  If you get blown up, you lose your ship,
Code That Writes Code
Microsoft trained an Open AI Model to write Python code from comments. It's pretty impressive.
Heya!
If you know of or use Honeybadger to track your bugs, you'll appreciate this. The fine folks at Honeybadger Industries just blew up the campaign emailing industry.
Kicking the "For Loop" Habit
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it."
What Happens When You Don't Pick Your Users
On the most-recent episode of The Art Of Product Podcast , Derrick Reimer and Ben Orenstein chat with Rahul Vohra, co-founder and CEO of Superhuman - the fastest email experience ever made. They talk about a great many things – and you should definitely go and listen to catch them all
You Probably Have Too Many Free Trials
You've run the numbers. Plenty of people are hitting your marketing site, plenty of people are signing up for free trials. The problem is conversion - maybe 3% of your trial users convert to paying user. Maybe less. You probably have too many free trials.
The Slippery Slope of In-Product Messaging
Matthew Ström, design lead at Bit.ly, is also picking up the torch and warning about in-product messaging (aka what a lot of people think about when they thing about user onboarding).
If You Don't Respect Your Users, You Don't Deserve Their Respect
It's easy to get lost in metrics. You've got A/B tests, time series tests, keyword tests, every kind of test you can think of. You're measuring engagement, clickthrough, funnel progress, time-on-site, everything. But do you really know who your customers actually are? Do you really care?