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Where Does Software Engineering Go From Here? (Part 1)

Why LLMs will never be intelligent, why English cannot replace code, and why the labs teaching the world this workflow will not be the ones that own it.

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On the Separation of Money and State
Money was the first thing to get enshittified. How the state captured it, what that has cost everyone since, and why the two need to come apart.
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Is Your Idea Worth Pursuing?
The best way to have a good idea is to say no to a lot of bad ones.
- startups

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