Also the idea that a dev who could making a game in 24 hour would create something professional and polished in 3 days is a joke. The answer to “where are all the games” is simple: LLMs don’t actually make a huge impact on making a real game.

I’m not saying running a company is easy and I know that many gray areas exist in the decision making. I do think companies can exist, profit, and be a net good for the world. However, we need to remove the notion that the duty to shareholder profits is a moral duty. It’s a cowards way out of having to make actual difficult choices. It’s one of those things that sounds great exactly because it allows you do horrible things with no responsibility. It creates a system where you offload the effort and weight of your decisions. As long as you’re are acting in the interest of shareholders, you are in the clear. That’s a dangerous concept and the opposite of morality.

Can’t say the same for whenever the new abstraction of the day comes along. In my experience what the OP is saying is exactly my experience. The abstractions get picked not because they are best but because they reduce liability.

This also doesn't mean to not be forward thinking. You want the architecture to support growth that will more than likely happen, just keep the expectations in check.

Organization and tools like that can be helpful for communicating and coordinating across a company, but at the individual level it's usually a waste of time. You don't need them. Remember, the whole point is to get work done. If organizing isn't moving you closer to your goal, it's not doing it's job.

My suggestion is to do what I do now.

One list: TODO.txt.

I put tasks in priority order and just work through them. Sometimes I write a note or an idea at the bottom, but that's it. No over complication. It only has what I need to get the next thing done and keep moving through my tasks.