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← Software did not invent iterative development: mining engineers had their Agile revolution in 1960.
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Read this korrent: Software did not invent iterative development: mining engineers had their Agile revolution in 1960.
Software did not invent iterative development: mining engineers had their Agile revolution in 1960.
Last stated 3 months ago
29 Jul 2026
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Hillel Wayne — holds since 2026-07-29 — tap for who they are
Same subject: AI has changed software development enough that some old assumptions about it no longer hold. — tap to centre the map on it
AI has changed software development enough that some old assumptions about it no longer hold.
Last stated 9 months ago
15 Jan 2026
SK
Steve Klabnik — holds since 2026-01-15 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Building a system that does the prompting for you is not a break with software history but the next rung on the same ladder of rising abstraction. — tap to centre the map on it
Building a system that does the prompting for you is not a break with software history but the next rung on the same ladder of rising abstraction.
Last stated 2 months ago
19 Aug 2026
AO
Addy Osmani — holds since 2026-08-19 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Technological progress did not slow down from 1970 to the present, compared with its pre-1970 speed — tap to centre the map on it
Technological progress did not slow down from 1970 to the present, compared with its pre-1970 speed
Last stated 7 years ago
19 Nov 2019
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Scott Alexander — holds since 2014-01-01 — tap for who they are
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Scott Alexander — no longer holds since 2019-11-19 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Technology has changed, but how companies are run has not. — tap to centre the map on it
Technology has changed, but how companies are run has not.
Last stated 9 years ago
25 Jan 2018
BC
Brian Chesky — holds since 2018-01-25 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The current wave of AI agent tooling and practices is replaying the early-2000s enterprise software development lifecycle, starting with waterfall. — tap to centre the map on it
The current wave of AI agent tooling and practices is replaying the early-2000s enterprise software development lifecycle, starting with waterfall.
Last stated a year ago
30 Sept 2025
HR
Harper Reed — holds since 2025-09-30 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Economic growth from AI waits on change management, not on model capability: the work artifact and the workflow have to change first. — tap to centre the map on it
Economic growth from AI waits on change management, not on model capability: the work artifact and the workflow have to change first.
Last stated 11 months ago
12 Nov 2025
SN
Satya Nadella — holds since 2025-11-12 — tap for who they are
Same subject: AI will repeat Agile's pattern: sound core ideas surrounded by a huge snake oil industry that is hard to tell apart from the real thing. — tap to centre the map on it
AI will repeat Agile's pattern: sound core ideas surrounded by a huge snake oil industry that is hard to tell apart from the real thing.
Last stated 7 months ago
7 Apr 2026
MF
Martin Fowler — holds since 2026-04-07 — tap for who they are
Same subject: This is a really exciting time to be building software, and programming today is more fun than it was in 2012 or 2013. — tap to centre the map on it
This is a really exciting time to be building software, and programming today is more fun than it was in 2012 or 2013.
Last stated 2 years ago
6 Oct 2024
MT
Michael Truell — holds since 2024-10-06 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A badly written AI outbound email is evidence of a bad vendor, not of a limit of AI. — tap to centre the map on it
A badly written AI outbound email is evidence of a bad vendor, not of a limit of AI.
Last stated 10 months ago
1 Jan 2026
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Jason Lemkin — holds since 2026-01-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A bigger context window does not give you a smarter model; the intelligence of the model is what decides how much of that window it can actually attend to. — tap to centre the map on it
A bigger context window does not give you a smarter model; the intelligence of the model is what decides how much of that window it can actually attend to.
Last stated 3 months ago
15 Jul 2026
DH
Dex Horthy — holds since 2026-07-15 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A body of publications is easy for AI models to consume via pretraining corpora but cumbersome for most humans due to CAPTCHAs, accounts, and paywalls. — tap to centre the map on it
A body of publications is easy for AI models to consume via pretraining corpora but cumbersome for most humans due to CAPTCHAs, accounts, and paywalls.
Last stated a month ago
17 Sept 2026
PC
Patrick Collison — holds since 2026-09-17 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A company that uses an algorithm to nudge customers into behavior that isn't good for them is doing something bad. — tap to centre the map on it
A company that uses an algorithm to nudge customers into behavior that isn't good for them is doing something bad.
Last stated a year ago
7 Oct 2025
MM
Mr. Money Mustache — holds since 2025-10-07 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A control evaluation that reports under one per cent risk should be read as several per cent, because the evaluation can itself fail. — tap to centre the map on it
A control evaluation that reports under one per cent risk should be read as several per cent, because the evaluation can itself fail.
Last stated 2 years ago
7 May 2024
BS
Buck Shlegeris — holds since 2024-05-07 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A feedback loop that reinforces a behavior pulls it toward whatever improves the loop's own score. — tap to centre the map on it
A feedback loop that reinforces a behavior pulls it toward whatever improves the loop's own score.
Last stated 2 months ago
26 Aug 2026
HK
Henrik Karlsson — holds since 2026-08-26 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A PHP vulnerability found with GPT-5.6 Sol will cause havoc this week. — tap to centre the map on it
A PHP vulnerability found with GPT-5.6 Sol will cause havoc this week.
Last stated yesterday
21 Oct 2026
PS
Peter Steinberger — holds since 2026-10-21 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A startup should not begin life as a nonprofit and bolt a for-profit arm on later, whatever OpenAI's own history suggests. — tap to centre the map on it
A startup should not begin life as a nonprofit and bolt a for-profit arm on later, whatever OpenAI's own history suggests.
Last stated 3 years ago
18 Mar 2024
SA
Sam Altman — holds since 2024-03-18 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A tiny language model inventing a plausible-sounding name is the same phenomenon as a large one confidently stating a false fact. — tap to centre the map on it
A tiny language model inventing a plausible-sounding name is the same phenomenon as a large one confidently stating a false fact.
Last stated 8 months ago
12 Feb 2026
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Andrej Karpathy — holds since 2026-02-12 — tap for who they are
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Software did not invent iterative development: mining engineers had their Agile revolution in 1960.
Last stated 29 Jul 2026 · 3 months ago
Holds Hillel Wayne
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AI has changed software development enough that some old assumptions about it no longer hold.
Last stated 15 Jan 2026 · 9 months ago
Holds Steve Klabnik
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Building a system that does the prompting for you is not a break with software history but the next rung on the same ladder of rising abstraction.
Last stated 19 Aug 2026 · 2 months ago
Holds Addy Osmani
Similar wording
Technological progress did not slow down from 1970 to the present, compared with its pre-1970 speed
Last stated 19 Nov 2019 · 7 years ago
No longer holds Scott Alexander
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Technology has changed, but how companies are run has not.
Last stated 25 Jan 2018 · 9 years ago
Holds Brian Chesky
Similar wording
The current wave of AI agent tooling and practices is replaying the early-2000s enterprise software development lifecycle, starting with waterfall.
Last stated 30 Sept 2025 · a year ago
Holds Harper Reed
Similar wording
Economic growth from AI waits on change management, not on model capability: the work artifact and the workflow have to change first.
Last stated 12 Nov 2025 · 11 months ago
Holds Satya Nadella
Similar wording
AI will repeat Agile's pattern: sound core ideas surrounded by a huge snake oil industry that is hard to tell apart from the real thing.
Last stated 7 Apr 2026 · 7 months ago
Holds Martin Fowler
Similar wording
This is a really exciting time to be building software, and programming today is more fun than it was in 2012 or 2013.
Last stated 6 Oct 2024 · 2 years ago
Holds Michael Truell
Same subject: LLMs
A badly written AI outbound email is evidence of a bad vendor, not of a limit of AI.
Last stated 1 Jan 2026 · 10 months ago
Holds Jason Lemkin
Same subject: LLMs
A bigger context window does not give you a smarter model; the intelligence of the model is what decides how much of that window it can actually attend to.
Last stated 15 Jul 2026 · 3 months ago
Holds Dex Horthy
Same subject: LLMs
A body of publications is easy for AI models to consume via pretraining corpora but cumbersome for most humans due to CAPTCHAs, accounts, and paywalls.
Last stated 17 Sept 2026 · a month ago
Holds Patrick Collison
Same subject: AI alignment
A company that uses an algorithm to nudge customers into behavior that isn't good for them is doing something bad.
Last stated 7 Oct 2025 · a year ago
Holds Mr. Money Mustache
Same subject: AI alignment
A control evaluation that reports under one per cent risk should be read as several per cent, because the evaluation can itself fail.
Last stated 7 May 2024 · 2 years ago
Holds Buck Shlegeris
Same subject: AI alignment
A feedback loop that reinforces a behavior pulls it toward whatever improves the loop's own score.
Last stated 26 Aug 2026 · 2 months ago
Holds Henrik Karlsson
Same subject: OpenAI
A PHP vulnerability found with GPT-5.6 Sol will cause havoc this week.
Last stated 21 Oct 2026 · yesterday
Holds Peter Steinberger
Same subject: OpenAI
A startup should not begin life as a nonprofit and bolt a for-profit arm on later, whatever OpenAI's own history suggests.
Last stated 18 Mar 2024 · 3 years ago
Holds Sam Altman
Same subject: OpenAI
A tiny language model inventing a plausible-sounding name is the same phenomenon as a large one confidently stating a false fact.
Last stated 12 Feb 2026 · 8 months ago
Holds Andrej Karpathy