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Same subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subject Doing your best at a badjob is not for the boss: itis how the warm referral… DH David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2026-04-08 In practice "hire good people and give them room to do their jobs" often means hiring professional fakers and letting them drive the company into the ground. In practice "hire goodpeople and give them… PG Paul Graham — holds since 2024-09-01 The scarce skill is now context switching across parallel agents, not sustained deep work. The scarce skill is nowcontext switching… BC Boris Cherny — holds since 2026-03-04 Overly prescriptive instructions make a coding agent worse, for the same reason a micromanaging boss makes a programmer worse. Overly prescriptiveinstructions make a… DH David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2026-08-26 Open source is the cheat code for a junior getting hired: code others can review beats any credential. Open source is thecheat code for a junior… DH David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2024-09-18 Work produced by one frontier model should be reviewed by a different one, for the same reason a good programmer's work improves under a good peer's review. Work produced by onefrontier model should… DH David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2026-08-26 When institutions can only offer compromised care they end up calling it best practice, and the patients who do not get better conclude that they themselves are beyond help. When institutions canonly offer compromised… JS Jonathan Shedler — holds since 2026-07-27 Hiring a programmer turns on two things, the cover letter and a real programming test, never the resume, school, grades or pedigree. Hiring a programmerturns on two things… DH David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2025-07-12 Being in the top 5% at five things beats being the best at one: the top 0.1% costs a hundred times more and demands an obsession he never wanted. Being in the top 5% atfive things beats being… DH David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2025-07-12
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