Biology also has pace layers.
Biology also has pace layers. All animal cells are remarkably similar. But at the macro scale the animals that are made up of cells are wildly diverse. A boring lower level give...
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Biology also has pace layers. All animal cells are remarkably similar. But at the macro scale the animals that are made up of cells are wildly diverse. A boring lower level give...
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...
Maybe we'll see a new explosion of innovation at a higher pace layer because of the great LLM freeze. The "Javascript Industrial Complex" has led to an extraordinary amount of "innovation" in the client layers for the ...
Two pace layers intermixed will be chaotic and slow. If you have two pace layers intermixed, they fight each other in an eddy current and neither can run at their f...
...orce-fed AI-generated and auto-ground-truthed examples. This codex is at a slow pace layer; it takes months for the LLMs to be trained and then deployed. It's also indirect. In a world of infinite software you'll want a tiered system, with ...
...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.
...of what the platform creators made. It's easier to change, and thus is a higher pace layer. Subsuming functionality into the platform is expensive and should only be done when there's some benefit to doing it in the platform. An overly-larg...
Innovation moves up pace layers over time. As a given pace layer gets to the late-stage, where the momentum has coalesced around the obvious winners, competition moves up the stack...
...to use with the latest Tailwind version. RL improvements in models are at a low pace layer; it might take a year or more for the model to catch up to how Tailwind is now written. There was always some hysteresis in developer ecosystems. It ...
Just because you can heal it doesn't mean you should. Healing at the wrong pace layer is harmful because it hides the brokenness below. If it's broken below in a fundamental way making it look harmonious on top is bad.
The skills to build at different pace layers are just different. For example, the skill to make a good browser is very different from the skill to make a great web page. So being great (cultura...
...ual end users use. These are two extremely different layers. They are different pace layers. The competitive dynamics are different. They require very different skills to succeed in each. Lots of people are mistakenly analyzing them as thou...
...ments, risks, and concepts, not on 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 disc...
Most companies live in one pace layer. If you cross multiple pace layers it's orders of magnitude more challenging, but also an order of magnitude more value that can be created.
...er fidelity and real, into a roaring bonfire. The "fun" is found at the highest pace layer. If you had strict layering, you'd spend all your time on the lower layers before discovering if the higher layers were any fun. If you had tight cou...
There are different pace layers for getting results out of LLMs. Slowest: train a new foundation model from scratch. Also extremely capital intensive! Medium: fine-tune an existing...
... to code. The implications of this are significant. English is at a much higher pace layer than traditional code, which allows moving more quickly and experimenting with much higher leverage. It used to be that taking an English language de...
Prototypes should be at the highest pace layer. The most important thing for a prototype is adaptability; finding the fun. Ideally prototyping in a team should all happen on the same pace layer. I...
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 that scra...
...ng this feature. Why don't browsers add it as a feature? Browsers are too low a pace layer. It's not clear how to make a one-size fits all widget for this kind of thing that is generally useful. This kind of functionality should be built in...