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... building a platform and a product at the same time. Different pace layers! The lower pace layer is moving quickly and breaking things, which means the higher pace layer needs to build on an actually slower pace layer, but then the lower pa...
Lower pace layers need to move slowly to be able to be depended on. What should be a slow pace layer moving quickly is the worst of both worlds. This is one rea...
Lower pace layers should be boring.
...cessful products don't go slow because they get lazy, it's because they're at a lower pace layer! Things depend on them. They have leverage. If you go fast, you break real stuff. When you get more leverage, you go slower. That's the fundame...
Lower pace layers must go slower. They are higher leverage but must move slower. If you think you're at a higher pace layer but are at a lower one, you'll have ...
A fast pace layer can be sublimated into a lower pace layer once the best practices are conclusively discovered. At that point, no one bothers trying much different at that layer because the best practic...
...a faster, more direct loop that allows faster adaptation[om], to complement the lower pace layer of LLMs.
... your current app to the current model. We're used to the lower layers being a slower pace layer. But now they can go at a faster pace layer, and they lap your app and swamp you.
...o reason not to simply use the one official way. Adopting one convention in the lower pace layer solves the schelling point problem immediately.[qp][qq]
... details. All of the details emerge in higher pace layers built on top of those lower pace layers of concepts, requirements, etc. When a leader dives into a detail, the likelihood the right solution is discovered is orders of magnitude less...
Lower pace layers are often very hard to change. But every so often an opportunity pops up when things have been thrown into chaos by a new disruptive force tha...
...es; the flexibility was just too important. An ASIC takes the logic into a much lower pace layer that is expensive and slow to change. A general purpose chip allows the logic to change in software, many pace layers higher. LLMs aren't the b...
...ing to build a product at a higher pace layer, but it has to fit into a lower, slower pace layer, you'll get bogged down. You need to go as slow as the slowest pace layer you interact with that could kill you if you do it wrong. In general,...