What David Heinemeier Hansson thinks about simplicity
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
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Their wordsSo, this is why I'm quite skeptical about all this new AI acceleration we're having is even us, I think it's quite likely that we could use it wrong to build too much software, to get too far away from less software, learnable software. It still has to fit in the mind of a human.
↗DHH: How to Build a Profitable Company Without Losing Controlyoutube.com 2nd of 15 in this recording
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Their wordsThe struggle between profitless simplicity and profitable complexity is eternal in the world of software
↗They're rebuilding the Death Star of complexityworld.hey.com
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