It all begins with a product and a sale. That's how you go from zero to one.

Then if you're lucky enough to become an organization and start to have organisational problems you hire HR, accountants, lawyers, and managers.

But there will always be a dichotomy between core and auxilliary roles.

A coder and a salesman can create something out of nothing. We create the garden and those who come after tend to it.

Tech companies who grow large and old enough to forget that product and sales are the bedrock on which everything else stands decay and die.

Value your body, value your life. Your bosses see you as a piece of meat.

Entrenched engineers don’t want to you to alleviate or god forbid share the pain. Pain is good for employment security. And if the ship goes down, they’ll make sure they’re the last one to get fired, because there’s nothing the entrenched engineer fears more than having to job hunt.

Meetings that increases sync between customer and coder are few and precious.

In large organisations ceremonial meetings proliferate for the wrong reasons. People like to insert themselves in the process between customer and coder to appear relevant.

I personally am fond of meetings with customers, end-users, UX designers, and actual stakeholders.

I loathe meetings with corporate busybodies who consume bandwidth for corporate clout.

No, I don’t need another middle manager to interface themselves between me and my users.

What’s sophisticated are the layers of ideology and falsehood that made people believe that aristocracy was dead.

They will want to topple the elite so they can replace them.

For-profit degree-churning colleges made them not-so-elite through the law of supply and demand.

And now they can’t even get a job.

Then these kids realise these jobs don’t exist, that they should have gone to trade school instead, and that their student debt will cripple them for life.

Same thing will happen in China. For now their economy grows so fast it can absorb many intellectuals, but that won’t last forever.

Elite overproduction is about everybody wanting to be basically managers and nobody wanting to be production workers.

Except that without enough production workers it’s impossible to justify “elite” positions.

College graduates took on huge debt only to realise they’re not needed. That’s how you get a class of young, angry and unemployed intellectuals which is every government’s worst nightmare.

LLMs are a just a simple tool, if people misuse it it's on them.