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Spec-driven or not spec-driven is not the question. The first question is, “What game are we playing?” Here’s the game I’m playing when I develop software, with or without the genie. I call it The Compounding Game:


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This weekend I had the first experience talking to someone of a younger generation where I felt completely lost. I wasn’t just encountering a person with different values or different experiences making different tradeoffs with different resources, I was talking to a member of an alien species. We would never find common ground. The shock of it was enou…


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I just published publicly that when thinking about the economic value of AI, “replace human labor” is a narrow-minded perspective. It’s worse than that.

I like to work backwards from “the good of society”. Economic success, in my model, is an extremely rough proxy for doing good things for other people, individually & collectively. (Yes, I know this is n…

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This is the very beginning of an idea. I usually iterate on these things in private or with my trusted inner circle, but what the hell, things are moving fast, you’re supporting me and my work, so here’s the idea.

All us Augmented Developers are working very hard to get the genie to create source code that, once run, will deliver the desired answers to o…


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