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A genius before used to be limited by their ability to execute. Or, to coordinate a team of possibly squirrely humans to execute on their behalf. But now AI gives those geniuses 100x more capability than before if they have the met...
...yption changed the informational laws of physics and unlocked whole new ways to coordinate.
...now you can execute refactors way faster with the right plan. You don't need to coordinate the politics of multiple distractible humans with their own incentives because the LLMs will just execute on the plan with infinite patience. So you ...
...or can't get strong buy-in to change something based on gut. LLMs don't need to coordinate as much… maybe that will lead to more resonant products.
...h where you want to go in some fundamental sense, then you won't even bother to coordinate.
It's hard to find a shopping list app to coordinate with your family. If the shopping list doesn't have the feature your spouse wants then you can't use it at all to coordinate. The feature they want m...
...to change because there's an intra and inter network effect. Inter: You need to coordinate with others. If you change the workflow but others participate in it and don't change, then you can't change it. Intra: each step is dependent on the...
Trying to coordinate on a single demo everyone loves is antithetical to building perfectly personal software. The entire point is that the software can be perfectly tailo...
...as a fixed point to pivot around. That's why individuals often would rather not coordinate if it doesn't help them achieve a thing with the collective that they care about. If people believe in the power of that particular collective they a...
...elling points. Moments when everyone can agree that something has happened, and coordinate some kind of action. Coordinated action is significantly more likely to succeed. The frog in boiling water happens because there's no discontinuous "...
.... If you need multiple people to work together for it to happen, it's easier to coordinate if they can understand how it could work: a story.
Politics emerges when two or more entities try to coordinate. They can never be fully aligned. Since they are two distinct entities, there's always something that is good for one but bad for the other. That fun...
To coordinate you need some static touch points between entities[eh] Some frameworks and scaffolding. Those have to be pinned down as nucleation sites for collabor...
...ople move, the more coordination cost there is. You have to chase your peers to coordinate to get them to do something that coheres. People are chasing you as you chase others. … ad infinitum. This goes up more than linearly, because often ...
...teract with another person's thing in some way. Instead of two users needing to coordinate to find overlap to work together, everyone can just get the default and unless they change it it will be compatible.
...s better. But bigger can make you more likely to die: More sclerotic. Harder to coordinate and adapt, since coordination costs rise superlinearly with size. Trapped by a Lilliputian web. More leverage. Leverage allows efficiency… but also m...
...in userland. That can be great, but then if multiple things in userland need to coordinate they can take less for granted and figuring out how to coordinate might be hard. In general it's a good idea to have at least a conceptual understand...