With agentic engineering, features that were once nice-to-haves are now just haves.
...ring, features that were once nice-to-haves are now just haves. It's so easy to add features, there's no reason not to.
Topic: add feature
7 chunks · 6 episodes
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- add feature appears in 7 chunks across 6 episodes, from 2025-03-31 to 2026-02-23.
- Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 2/2/26 (2026-02-02), with 2 observations on this topic.
- Semantically it travels with system record, agentic engineering, and late stage, while by chunk count it sits between Geoffrey Litt and ai generated; its yearly rank moved from #168 in 2025 to #93 in 2026.
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Infinite software can be JIT software.
...ware can be JIT software. If software can be created cheaply, you don't have to add features you might need. When the need arises, you can simply tweak it to add it. JIT software is Just Right software. Exactly the features you need in that ...
Most software requires context to be useful.
...w into aggregators. For consumers, there's no real drive for the aggregators to add features. Once you're caught in their web, you'll get more and more caught in it by default. No need to do much to entice you to stay there.
The LLM is just an input.
...else is trivial If a provider has a small lead and wants to compound it, they'd add features that store state for the users. Then they hope that like a monkey trap the users do the convenient thing and then get stuck. That would then allow t...
The consumer tech ecosystem has been stagnant for a decade.
...eans that most PMs today that work on consumer things have only ever learned to add features to an app or platform someone else created. Thinking about how to birth new consumer ecosystems is a lost skill, but is extremely important. The peo...
People building tools for themselves are a good target for new kinds of AI tools.
... next big thing. The former cares about having their data first. Vibe coding to add features to a thing you already are using. Vs each output being a separate island.
Greasemonkey had a ton of user demand, but also had a low ceiling.
...Firefox back in the day that allowed users to install little content scripts to add features to sites they used. It was powerful… but also dangerous. A malicious script could steal your login credentials! Greasemonkey was a power-user featur...
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- software software0 → 3