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At the centre A 300-millisecond response budget is not an achievement but an admission: 300 milliseconds is an eternity in computing, and a product pitching it shows how far the bar has fallen. Holds CMCasey Muratori Read this korrent →

• Similar wording A new computer taking 42 minutes to become usable is unreasonable when the machine is a trillion times faster than what went to the moon; an operating system should install in one minute. Holds DHDavid Heinemeier Hansson
• Similar wording Getting from a demo to a product is a march of nines, and each additional nine costs the same amount of work as the one before it. Holds AKAndrej Karpathy
• Similar wording The thing worth finding is the exponential with the steepest curve that will run the longest — decades ago that was Moore’s law, and today it is AI progress. Holds AWAlexandr Wang
• Similar wording A decade of arguing that software is too slow has started to work: new products are now attacking established categories on a performance pitch alone, and getting traction. Holds CMCasey Muratori
• Similar wording The half-life of a technology company is short, and the few that last decades are the exception rather than the rule. Holds BTBret Taylor
• Similar wording Most of the code the world runs on is maintained by hobbyists with an hour or two a month, so any proposal that needs more than that will simply be ignored. Holds TDThomas Depierre
• Similar wording How fast or hard a product was made says nothing about whether the product is good Holds JFJason Fried
• Similar wording The thing to optimise at launch is time to value — how fast a new user reaches the moment that shows what the product can do. Holds DFDylan Field