The token cost to build a production feature is now lower than the meeting cost to discuss building that feature. Let me rephrase. It is literally cheaper to build the thing and see if it works than to have a 30 minute planning meeting about whether you should build it. It’s wild when you think about it. This completely inverts how you should run a software organization. The planning layer becomes the bottleneck because the building layer is essentially free. The cost of code has dropped to essentially 0. The rational response is to eliminate planning for anything that can be tested empirically. Don’t debate whether a feature will work. Just build it in 2 hours, measure it with a group of customers, and then decide to kill or keep it. I saw a startup operating this way and their build velocity is up 20x. Decision quality is up because every decision is informed by a real prototype, not a slide deck and an expensive meeting. We went from “move fast and break things” to “move fast and build everything.” The planning industrial complex is dead. Thank god.

Officially an SF local!🎉

Open hardware for AI just took a leap 🛠️ Ainekko is releasing Esperanto’s RISC‑V cores. 1 000+ cores on a chip and full RTL are coming for community use Custom boards for robots, industrial edge or IoT could be built with these designs. What would you build?

This is a massive indictment of blue state cities. You cannot call yourself a city who cares about the lower and middle class when you can’t even provide homes for them to live in. Instead, they actively prevent those homes from being built through webs of red-tape and zoning.

I think the student loan obsession of the activist base was probably the most destructive thing I've ever seen. It's an issue that just completely alienated those without college degrees and the legal inability to get anything done antagonized the left activists pushing it.

I live in California and the degree to which the electorate snapped rightwards cannot be overstated—moderate Democrats swept progressive ones across the entire state, tough on crime ballot measures won in landslides, etc. Oakland recalled its Mayor *and* DA