wet: write every time
dry used to be sacred: do not duplicate, abstract, share. ai makes writing cheap, and sharing becomes expensive. wet means write every time.
blog by tristan zindler
dry used to be sacred: do not duplicate, abstract, share. ai makes writing cheap, and sharing becomes expensive. wet means write every time.
the new art is designing systems. time is the oldest example: four thousand years of the babylonian hour, and nobody asks questions. on mars you'd have to start from scratch, and suddenly beats become the safer engineering choice over stretched mars-minutes. a good system prevents errors through its form, not through documentation.
it's easy to see a hundred ways ai can go wrong. but there's one concrete area where ai can genuinely improve humanity: saving science from its current crisis.
all the building blocks for the next ui revolution are on the table. but nobody has put them together correctly. that reminds me of something.
chrome 146 contains an api that almost nobody has noticed yet. it will be the beginning of a fundamental change of the internet.
ai-assisted development tips the build-vs-buy equation: why custom software is becoming economically viable for mid-sized companies for the first time, saas is losing its economic moat, and the new core competency isn't programming — it's software design.