engineering

“One of the things that's really different about software engineering than other types of engineering is the fungibility. Problems can take two days or they can take two years. And the fundamental difference is the excitement and clarity you have around the sol…”

“I think a lot of the focus shifts to creativity. Really? The thing that we've been trying to do with the front-end cloud, it accelerates, which is work on your product, work on the user interface, work on the thing that touches another human being and gives th…”

“The most valuable thing as an executive you can do is educate like the other execs on how engineering works, not kind of protecting engineering from visibility from anyone else.”

“I got an engineer. He's amazing. And I got a designer and he's amazing. We don't really need product people. Like who are these folks? We know what we should do here. That's also a disaster. So like, I'm just picking one of the many sort of. Initial conditions…”

“Consumery software, which means you're building a software for regular humans. I would argue you have equal parts engineering, design, and product. Products there to tell the story of the customer and to influence, like, to think like the customer, to think si…”

“I think there's literally founders who think cool, but it's going to kind of Contract out the engineering or kind of bring in some con, you know, an upside firm to do this. This is a hugely horrible, bad idea. If you're trying to build software as to not, and …”

“The second thing you need in those early days is you need people who communicate exceptionally well because they're the ones who are going to be your feedback loop to product, engineering, and even leadership to help you understand what is it that you need to …”

“Engineering used to be a scarce resource. I don't think that's the case anymore. Not to mention, I mean, AI is making everyone be even more capable than ever.”

“There's definitely product managers who I think they're, they don't know enough about the technical side, which can be fine, but like can't really appreciate the pain engineering is going through and like what on call is like because like they've never really …”

“We started seven months ago and we are now about 30 people in the team. Growing about one to two people every week and scaling across engineering product research and go to market.”