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...ovel more GPUs and ML engineers into it." There's one monolithic thing at a low pace layer that's insanely capital hungry. Other systems allow more incremental investment to unlock value.
...e, in the model or the structure around the model? The latter has a much faster pace layer. If the model is dumb muscle, and the structure around the model can accumulate insights, then it can turbocharge what the system can do.
...ou need them, without the user needing to act like a PM. Models are also a slow pace layer since they take so long to train and adapt. They are also a closed set. Another approach: use the LLMs as dumb muscle, not the brains. The brains wou...
...r cognitive labor. It has kicked all of us knowledge workers into a much faster pace layer. One that is more inhuman than the previous layers.
... magnitude easier to move than atoms. That means software development runs at a pace layer many orders of magnitude faster than hardware development. Software investors expect to see traction within 6 months. Hardware investors expect to se...
...ping to real customers gets you real feedback. But it also drops you to a lower pace layer. Now every iteration has to think about how it will affect existing customers. You can't change as quickly as you could before. Before you ship to cu...
The pace layer you're at forces you to move at a certain speed. Everyone else can move that fast in that layer so you must.
...ominant coordination on a team? Monthly cycle? Weekly? Daily? Hourly? Different pace layers and different contexts demand different cycle times.
...in. How long after something is done to know if the thing worked. That sets the pace layer. Code is fast; law is possibly decades.
..., and there's the content. Content bugs are "just content," they're at a higher pace layer and much easier to fix. At the beginning, getting the engine pinned down and robust is by far more important.
...ill by default diverge. If you connect them with a steel band, then the highest pace layers will be locked to the speed of the lowest pace layer. But if you connect the pieces with rubber bands, then each segment can move somewhat independe...
... the challenge of 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 ...
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 reason pl...
Everyone thinks their pace layer is the most important one that everything else orbits around. Because the one above and the one below are inscrutable to you. We all implicitly think...
Loops in different pace layers can't be directly connected. They are inscrutable to each other because they run at such different speeds. But they can induct each other.
Lower pace layers should be boring.
...ave basically been a singularity since we invented language and transcended the pace layer of biologic evolution. We've transcended many other layers since then, this is just the most recent one. Maybe each new pace layer transcending via a...
...l 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 fundamental t...
...faster you can innovate at that level. Feedback loops should nest, one for each pace layer.
...s stored routines. Humans can adapt themselves. Evolution popping up into a new pace layer and then taking over.