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The vast majority of consumer software in the past couple of decades has been algorithmically simple. We've explored every nook and cranny of that simple software land...
Fun science fact: the vast majority of a tree's mass comes from the air. Carbon Dioxide, not the soil.
The vast majority of software in the world is boring CRUD. LLM's automatic code writing is great for producing these CRUD-y apps. We're about to be inundated with slop...
Every idea that became inevitable started off wrong. Then again, the vast majority of wrong ideas never become inevitable.
...e broken down. Each tier gives you an order of magnitude better protection. The vast majority of the cloud is in tier 1 or 2 today Moving most computing to tier 3 would be a massive improvement. Tier 4 is overkill for most situations. Your fam...
...e to care. In the past, dealing with untrusted executable code was rare, so the vast majority of developers didn't need to be aware of it. LLMs make all text executable, which means that app developers now need to think like an OS developer......
...s is why the Bitter Lesson emerges. A few places this shows up: In the web, the vast majority of links on web pages were put there by humans asserting, "this other page is potentially worth visiting", which can then be distilled into PageRank....
It turns out that the vast majority of coding in practice is pretty simple and automatable. It's way less valuable than people think. It is concave, you don't need tons of data to autom...
...e able to distinguish subtle differences and have informed preferences. But the vast majority of people will think all of the options taste the same. That means if your thing has a subtly better quality than the default option that can only be...
...dination costs. Sometimes crazy is how you break through to the next thing. The vast majority of crazy, fast companies are like sparks flying through the wind, snuffing out before anybody notices. But every so often one falls on a patch of dry...
...you have to figure out a different way to unpack or frame it for them. The vast vast majority of signal that is sent out in the world fails to be absorbed. Because it assumes preexisting knowledge or motivation that doesn't match, or because i...
... particular way, your app could scale to insane heights if necessary. … But the vast majority of webapps that someone might build will never get more than a few dozen users anyway. The tradeoff was to have a persistent, non-trivial tax, which ...
...ig breakthrough. Just that it's necessary for a game-changing breakthrough. The vast majority of failed bands also have creative strife, but then they never have the breakthrough, and they disband, and you never hear about them. It's hard to h...
...rain for no reason. Innovation is variance that turns out to be useful. But the vast majority of variance, or things that attempt to be innovative, turn out to not be viable. Innovate intentionally! Innovation is dangerous, all else equal. If ...
... minds is hard to communicate over, and why sharing a good idea is so hard. The vast majority of human experience is just running around in a cacophony of people shouting to be heard with what they think is a useful insight, above the cacophon...
...viating from the norm. A defection that turns out to work is acclaimed. But the vast majority of the time, they don't work. Sometimes the deviation is accidental. But sometimes it's intentional: a defection. The renegades are where innovative ...
...se to join with it and participate, it gains even more momentum. Of course, the vast majority of these experiments will fail! The standardization momentum thus accumulates after the original innovative act.
...ning Man tickets. In Coachella, the entity producing the event is producing the vast majority of the things that you're paying to see. The event could be great if they do a great job, or bad if they do a bad job. Even if the other participants...
...works!" A large proportion of code in the world is glue code. In the future the vast majority will be glop.
...ividually unexceptional humans do. You swarm all of the possible solutions. The vast majority are crap and kind of fall away, unused. The small subset that are great are all that remain. Humans have a trick the LLMs don't: the world can cache ...