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...hits critical mass. For example, if the actions of savvy users crawling through broken glass and asking their agents to create mechanistic software for them helps later users achieve the same goals with fewer tokens.
...heir own enjoyment. They need no other motivation. If you have to crawl through broken glass, then you need a strong incentive. If it's fun, then you don't need an incentive at all. Any incentive is just a bonus.
...come the friction. LLMs have infinite patience; they are happy to crawl through broken glass if you tell them to… and have the tokens to spend on it. If you could make it so the first agent to crawl through broken glass grinds it smoother for...
...'t stumble into doing something dangerous if they had to crawl through a bit of broken glass. If something bad happened, they couldn't claim naivete. But LLMs are happy to crawl through broken glass, making those warnings much less effective.
...rongly evangelizing a thing is that you'll be far more willing to crawl through broken glass. If the destination is worth it and your friends all emphatically recommend you'll stick with it even if it's hard. "The first season of Parks and Re...
...e, too difficult to set up. How do you make it so the first users crawling over broken glass make it easier for the people behind them?
...ut dangerous tool, you want your first users to be crocodiles. Crawling through broken glass, grinding it down so everyone behind them benefits. That requires being able to share what you've built.
...d will never work. You'll always need the most advanced users to grind down the broken glass for everyone else.
...codiles to help make the product ready for others. People need to crawl through broken glass to use it. The more that someone crawls through broken glass, the more they grind it smooth for others to follow them after. But that requires a real...
...patience and give up. Agents have infinite patience, so they will crawl through broken glass if necessary.
...tartup, don't do it! You need to want to do it even if you had to crawl through broken glass. Otherwise you'll find yourself questioning or even resenting your decision when you run into hardships. But if you want to do it no matter what, the...
...Vibecoding that joyful creation audience has grown 100x . Because the amount of broken glass has gone down by an order of magnitude. But even so, most people will never get joy from coding. Software for most people will always be a means to a...
...our product solves. People with their hair on fire are willing to crawl through broken glass to put it out. People who are merely curious will give up at the slightest pain.
...of horizontal use cases that aren't possible today. People are crawling through broken glass and don't realize there's another way. Also there is a lot of glass not worth crawling through that they aren't even bothering with because the pain ...
... to cook." This is exapting a chat thread into something else. Crawling through broken glass. What if there were a tool that helped you maintain this context and deploy it?
For enterprise use cases employees are willing to crawl through broken glass of CRUD workflows. Because they are forced by their employers to, and there's more downside risk. Consumers have lower standards for quality, and als...
...eamrollers paving the way for others.[pl] The first users have to crawl through broken glass to get where they want to go. But if they are steamrollers, crushing the glass into a road of pebbles for others, they make it easier for other users...
...quickly when the want is strong enough. That's easy to activate by reducing the broken glass users have to crawl through, making the want stronger.
...about it much. Real platforms do this by watching what developers crawl through broken glass to do and then making it so the next person with that use case doesn't have to crawl through so much broken glass.
...d on PUNCH CARDS??!" But people did it even though it was like crawling through broken glass because it was the only way to get those valuable results. There was no better way, so you did it without thinking. What are the things that are like...