What Nelson Elhage thinks about ideas vs execution
Software engineer who writes the blog Made of Bugs about performance, debugging and understanding computer systems. Previously worked at Anthropic on interpretability, at Stripe on Sorbet, and at Ksplice.
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1 dated position, 2024, in their own words. Our reading of what Nelson Elhage has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingReliable, stable developer tooling matters more than which specific technical choices a team makes
Their wordsThe best tooling in the world will struggle to make up for "regularly losing a day debugging your environment," and so getting that aspect right can easily outweigh almost any other decisions you make.
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