What Scott Hanselman thinks about ideas vs execution

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Programmer, teacher and speaker; long-time Microsoft developer-community figure, host of the Hanselminutes podcast and author of the hanselman.com blog.

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1. 4 Feb 2026

   Our readingProgramming is essentially the craft of turning ambiguous ideas into precise, specific instructions.

   Their wordsIt's not trivial to one shot something unique, because programming is the art of making the ambiguous incredibly specific through sculpting.

   ↗The danger of glamourizing one shotsfeeds.hanselman.com 2nd of 3 in this piece