"Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast." If you move fast _and_ you break things you just end up with a lot of broken things. I never did understand this philosophy.
Brajeshwar 22 minutes ago [-]
You do things slowly, intentionally, again and again and again, that it becomes almost muscle memory that when the times comes for you to do it again in future, it happens smooth and is thus fast eventually.
An old baseball coach always said “be slow, but quick!” Took me years to sort that out.
Be thoughtful, be methodical, be aware, be comfortable, and be decisive. Made a lot of sense when I caught a 2-hopper off the line at 3rd and didn’t have time to think about how to field it or where to throw.
wesselbindt 11 minutes ago [-]
Or: how the industry ends up with about half the things they build going completely unused.
loa_in_ 4 minutes ago [-]
History of invention in the science of mathematics would show that there is nothing that's useless in the long term. It's all pieces of a puzzle.
esafak 2 minutes ago [-]
> When speed is the priority, there’s no incentive to improve or invest in the shared system (e.g. a design system or codebase) under a tight deadline.
These guardrails are precisely what should be laid down in advance to enable workers to run safely with AI. Write all the rules in your AGENTS file, and point your AI reviewer at it. Encode whatever you can describe algorithmically in commit hooks. This will get you 90% of the way there, and peer review will take care of the rest.
I am hopeful that AI will empower smaller companies, where there is less deadweight, and consensus can be formed more quickly. Discussing what to build is not wasted time; it's one of the few things that favors humans.
varispeed 13 minutes ago [-]
One of the most expensive learnings was: If you want to do it fast, do it slow.
Time and time again proven true.
andsoitis 34 minutes ago [-]
Sometimes you have to go slow (talk) in order to go fast (build the right thing).
Holacc 3 minutes ago [-]
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Be thoughtful, be methodical, be aware, be comfortable, and be decisive. Made a lot of sense when I caught a 2-hopper off the line at 3rd and didn’t have time to think about how to field it or where to throw.
These guardrails are precisely what should be laid down in advance to enable workers to run safely with AI. Write all the rules in your AGENTS file, and point your AI reviewer at it. Encode whatever you can describe algorithmically in commit hooks. This will get you 90% of the way there, and peer review will take care of the rest.
I am hopeful that AI will empower smaller companies, where there is less deadweight, and consensus can be formed more quickly. Discussing what to build is not wasted time; it's one of the few things that favors humans.
Time and time again proven true.