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Read this korrent: AI tooling has not compressed the gap between great and average engineers: it is still two or three times, and for the same reasons as before — curiosity and appetite for the bleeding edge.
AI tooling has not compressed the gap between great and average engineers: it is still two or three times, and for the same reasons as before — curiosity and appetite for the bleeding edge.
Last stated 7 months ago
1 Apr 2026
TP
Thuan Pham — holds since 2026-04-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A slot machine triggers the brain’s learning and curiosity pathways while teaching nothing, and that one-way exchange is what makes it contemptuous of the player. — tap to centre the map on it
A slot machine triggers the brain’s learning and curiosity pathways while teaching nothing, and that one-way exchange is what makes it contemptuous of the player.
Last stated 13 years ago
3 Jul 2013
RK
Raph Koster — holds since 2013-07-03 — tap for who they are
Same subject: American transit agencies stay expensive out of incuriosity: the practices that would fix them are written in languages nobody in the room reads. — tap to centre the map on it
American transit agencies stay expensive out of incuriosity: the practices that would fix them are written in languages nobody in the room reads.
Last stated 4 years ago
12 Jan 2023
AL
Alon Levy — holds since 2023-01-12 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Argue like you are right and listen like you are wrong, with the humility to know what you do not know. — tap to centre the map on it
Argue like you are right and listen like you are wrong, with the humility to know what you do not know.
Last stated 4 months ago
9 Jun 2026
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Adam Grant — holds since 2026-06-09 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Creativity consists of curiosity combined with the foresight to imagine what a new combination of ideas could produce. — tap to centre the map on it
Creativity consists of curiosity combined with the foresight to imagine what a new combination of ideas could produce.
Last stated 6 years ago
15 Aug 2020
MT
Ming Thein — holds since 2020-08-15 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Curiosity and the drive to have impact, across disciplines, are underrated qualities. — tap to centre the map on it
Curiosity and the drive to have impact, across disciplines, are underrated qualities.
Last stated 4 months ago
29 Jun 2026
DA
Daniela Amodei — holds since 2026-06-29 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Curiosity does not simply fade with age: the general disposition declines while curiosity aroused by a particular thing you care about actually increases. — tap to centre the map on it
Curiosity does not simply fade with age: the general disposition declines while curiosity aroused by a particular thing you care about actually increases.
Last stated 3 months ago
13 Jul 2026
AC
Alan Castel — holds since 2026-07-13 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Curiosity is probably the number one quality a designer can have. — tap to centre the map on it
Curiosity is probably the number one quality a designer can have.
Last stated 2 years ago
21 Feb 2025
TC
Thiago Costa — holds since 2025-02-21 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Curiosity is the thing AI has not cracked: a model can research a question thoroughly, but it cannot decide which question is worth asking. — tap to centre the map on it
Curiosity is the thing AI has not cracked: a model can research a question thoroughly, but it cannot decide which question is worth asking.
Last stated 2 years ago
19 Jun 2024
AS
Aravind Srinivas — holds since 2024-06-19 — tap for who they are
Same subject: "I don't know" becomes a kind of superpower when you can work with Claude Code to figure things out. — tap to centre the map on it
"I don't know" becomes a kind of superpower when you can work with Claude Code to figure things out.
Last stated 7 months ago
19 Mar 2026
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Kris Puckett — holds since 2026-03-19 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A coding agent does not learn from its mistakes the way a person does -- it repeats the same error indefinitely unless a human notices and writes it down. — tap to centre the map on it
A coding agent does not learn from its mistakes the way a person does -- it repeats the same error indefinitely unless a human notices and writes it down.
Last stated 7 months ago
25 Mar 2026
MZ
Mario Zechner — holds since 2026-03-25 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A coding agent left to run over a weekend returns work that is half good, a quarter garbage and a quarter in need of repair. — tap to centre the map on it
A coding agent left to run over a weekend returns work that is half good, a quarter garbage and a quarter in need of repair.
Last stated a year ago
18 Aug 2025
CB
Clay Bavor — holds since 2025-08-18 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A developer using AI coding tools remains responsible for reviewing the code they ship. — tap to centre the map on it
A developer using AI coding tools remains responsible for reviewing the code they ship.
Last stated 7 months ago
10 Mar 2026
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Jon Seager — holds since 2026-03-10 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A software engineer who is not using a tool like Cursor is working at half productivity or worse. — tap to centre the map on it
A software engineer who is not using a tool like Cursor is working at half productivity or worse.
Last stated a year ago
18 Aug 2025
BT
Bret Taylor — holds since 2025-08-18 — tap for who they are
Same subject: AI coding agents work best with the same general-purpose tools built for humans, such as git and file utilities, rather than agent-specific interfaces. — tap to centre the map on it
AI coding agents work best with the same general-purpose tools built for humans, such as git and file utilities, rather than agent-specific interfaces.
Last stated a year ago
30 Sept 2025
HR
Harper Reed — holds since 2025-09-30 — tap for who they are
Same subject: AI agents and AI coding will run on servers and from the cloud first, not on your laptop. — tap to centre the map on it
AI agents and AI coding will run on servers and from the cloud first, not on your laptop.
Last stated 4 months ago
28 Jun 2026
PL
Pieter Levels — holds since 2026-06-28 — tap for who they are
Same subject: An AI coding assistant's tendency to infer what a user means rather than exactly what they typed is both its greatest strength and the reason it is hard to trust. — tap to centre the map on it
An AI coding assistant's tendency to infer what a user means rather than exactly what they typed is both its greatest strength and the reason it is hard to trust.
Last stated 9 months ago
22 Jan 2026
SK
Steve Klabnik — holds since 2026-01-22 — tap for who they are
Same subject: An app used every day should be built by a thoughtful team of engineers rather than one-shotted with Claude. — tap to centre the map on it
An app used every day should be built by a thoughtful team of engineers rather than one-shotted with Claude.
Last stated 5 months ago
26 May 2026
AM
Andy Madrick — holds since 2026-05-26 — tap for who they are
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